Quote Originally Posted by AttilaDerHunn View Post
really for Syracuse to work efficiently Sicily must be expanded to say 6 settlements or more to represent how important that region is for all the factions involved and to increase the projected yield per say
I think it could work. Of course there are those games where either Carthage or Rome blitzes southern Italy/Sicily and in those, Syracuse would probably (if hostile to the blitzer) merely be another hindrance that's overcome with time. But I've had plenty of games where Rome and Carthage concentrate in other areas and I think Syracuse would work delightfully then. I don't really see the problem.

As for why we want them in
1) since they historically had made empires in Sicily before, and since the appearance of Rome/Carthage as the only masters of the Western Mediterranean ISNT necessarily a foregone conclusion at the start of an EB game, it should have the chance to maybe do so again

2) It would spice things up, so the Western Mediterranean isn't merely a 1-on-1, but, like most any other place in the game, has a few more pockets of surprise

3) They'd be fun to play