The empire is on its knees, but a last hope lies beyond the eastern frontier .
Shapur II, Shahanshah of the Sassanid Empire and his many client kings have long believed Rome\'s eastern holdings to be theirs by ancestral right, and those.
Now, covetous eyes have fallen upon Rome\'s trade-rich but sparsely defended desert provinces. .377 AD: Emperor Valens has stripped the Persian frontier of its legions, sending every available man to Thracia in an effort to contain the rampaging Gothic hordes. .
The empire is on its knees, but a last hope lies beyond the eastern frontier