Deffinately. It is what I would do, anyway. Playing as mighty Makedonia myself too and I'm planning on taking roughly the same path of conquest as you. Crawl up the spine of Italia from Sikelia (naval invade Syrakousai), then pincer them from the north through Illyria with another army. When you have crushed them, go either just from the shorelines of moden day France, or double that with another naval-invading army.

Maion