Varus Triumphant

Germany. 9 AD. Three Roman legions are annihilated after being ambushed by a coalition of German tribal forces. The disastrous defeat of the roman legions at the Teutoburg Forest cost Rome all of the hard-earned progress it had made in its attempted conquest of Germany. It forever forced the Roman border to remain along the Rhine, never again to expand. But what if the Romans had not lost at Teutoburg? The Roman commander, Varus, had recieved information before he set out on his disastrous Teutoburg campaign that one of his auxiliary commanders, Arminius, was planning to betray him, but he paid it no heed. What if he had? This timeline explores this eventuality, where Rome never lost its expansionistic drive.