CMBO map - fight amidst the ruins of a Fallen Empire

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The valley of Desciens first appears in history in Caesar's account of the Gallic Wars. Two maniples were dispatched under the command of the Legate Paesentius to deal with the druids who were organizing resistance around a temple at a sacred marsh.

In the 2nd century AD the Governor Rufus Acrigola took an interest in the site and began major public works. The marsh was fed by a stream from the hills that was diverted into the many low places until it was only a trickle. Agricola had a quarry established in the hills and an aquaduct built to channel the stream to fill a small lake. The surrounding swamp he had drained and converted to farmland.

A proper Roman town with paved roads was constructed around the lake, named Desciens after the waterfall at the end of the aquaduct. Agricola had a villa built on the low hill east of the town and had a Roman temple built on the site of the old Celtic temple.

With the fall of Rome the woods grew back, the water seeped back into some of the old swamps, and Desciens was largely abandoned. There remains a small town, several farms, and a Catholic church built in the ruins of the Roman temple.

The forest south of the town remains a barrier to armies and armor. The town and the surrounding hills and forest are the last redoubt before the open farmland to the southwest. If the town is taken and passed, then the forest will be cut-off and a major line of German resistance must be abandoned.

Will the 3rd Reich live on in Desciens or will it be the graveyard of another fallen empire?

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Notes: Fictional map. 1600 x 1280. I am putting the finishing touches on a scenario set on the map for those who prefer scenarios. I just need to modify the British deployment.