Avlvs, I doubt not your desire to learn nor your ability in your character. I am a strong supporter of the Aemilii and have expressed this. I admire your courage to speak out despite your inexperience.

As for the power of the Carthaginian navy, I feel you highly underestimate its power.
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OOC: We have to think about this logically, rather than in the limits of the game engine. Having a large navy would mean constant raids on Italic shores, the ability to vastly outmanouver our land armies both in speed and agility. The navies are vastly understated in Rome, though that of course is no ones fault but CA.


As for your offer of attacking the other cities of Sicily, it may be of interest to you that Carthaginian and Roman influence meets in Sicily. Within the alliance we signed with them some years before in mutual support against the Molosson threat, Sicily was considered under Carthaginian sphere of influence. No roman army would cross the straits, and likewise no Carthaginian force would attack any part of the Italian mainland.

I once more express the difficulties and dangers to the north. It seems to be such a glance over that we have suffered so much at the hands of the Gauls. We must secure our homeland before we can expect to attack outside it. We need allies outside our controlled lands to protect our borders, so that our legions need not be tied up constantly patrolling to the north, waiting attacks from the Celts.