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Tacfarinas: The Desert Hydra

The Ancients

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Is the Ninth Hisbarne Withdrawn a Sign of Roman Weakness?

Tacperinus is able to put across to the disaffected native population of north africa that the ninth hispana being withdrawn is a sign of roman weakness. So tac farinus, again, he revives his tactics of attacking ar settlements and installations. He starts to besiege a town called tobiscom. The romans quickly go and raise thi siege to remove tafarinus from the area. But what olibella has learned most importantly is that finally the message has got through that you have to kill takfarinus. And so this is where we finally see him come in allignment with some of the other provincial rebels in the first century a d

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