OK did give RTW a try again last week-end but this time as the Scipii.

Was lucky to a fault in the very first moves cause:

- my spy managed to open the gate in Syracuse, which I took first round (with havy losses though - arrow towers ...)
- Cathaginians were to lazy to walk and took a ship to, presumably, go mess with me the other side of the island. Lazy people got punished since their single ship loaded with the almost all their troops in Sicily met two of mine and was duly sunk. Their city was guarded with one unit of militia only and became mine in turn 4...

Then few naval battles (which I mostly won), few blockade assignmet, took Sardigna and the Balleare ...

Landed a rather small army near Carthage, bought all available mercernaries and assaulted the city. Killed all inhabitants to keep them quite.

After a few re-orgnisation turns, took the three city the Carthaginian had left without much problem after having bribed their last sizeable stack...

Quite fun all the way but no real challenge (playing very hard on the strategic map and moderate for the tactical one).

Pre-battle speacjhes get a bit boring after a while as expected ... Now it's up for the Senate to decide if I am to go after the Egyptians or the Numidians (as far as I can remember, Egyptian should be more fun than walking over the Numidians and Spanish ....)

Conclusion remains unchanged except that using strategic agents really becomes tedious due to the boring animations ....

Will try to finish the campaign and have a go with another faction for a bigger challenge (legionnaries are way too powerful and versatile IMHO).