Macedonian Steamroller

[Gunzak]

Well I took the rebel city below me and while doing so Getai attacked me. I easily repeled them and decided I would kick their ass for invading. I made two huge stacks of troops and steamrolled their ass and took all four of their cities and destroyed their faction by 256 BC. I am now laying siege to two rebel cities and I invaded Italy and destroyed Epirot's last city, Taras, so I have now knocked three factions out of the game. I have not attacked Rome and will take your advice and not do so. Rome is currently at war with Carthage and Gaul so they are pretty tied up and thier forces are pitiful. I have two spies in Italy, one in north and one in south, and they have few troops and most of their cities are either undefended or have a max of one unit. I could plow through them rather quickly but again I will wait for a palace.

Once I destroy the two rebel cities, one to my east and the other just north of Rhodes I will finish off the rebels to my east and take the last two rebel cities there. One is lightly defended after another faction attacked twice and lost. I will then take the three rebel cities to my north west towards Italy and Gaul and just put in a large number of defenders and continue to build up my cities.

By recruiting three large armies my cash on hand went from 70k down to around 10k but I have an income of over 10k a turn right now so I don't really care. Once I take the last two cities I am currently sieging my income should go up dramatically when I disband all my mercenaries and missile cavalry. I made a ton of cavalry and used them to finish off Getai which out in the open was a complete joke. He would charge into my phalanx line and my mass cavalry, 8+ with general, would sweap around behind him and devestate his forces every battle. Some times his forces would route before my cavalry even had a chance to flank him.

So currently its 252BC and Hellenen, Getai and Epirots and destroyed, I have conquered several territories, am laying siege to two more and my income is greater then 10k a turn.

I could have far more territories right now but I have spent several years just building up my cities to increase happiness, population growth and income. Every city I have that can make a port has one and Rhodes has a level 2 port. I am also building stone roads, one complete and 2 more almost done, wherever I can to move troops around even faster.