Well, first off, I had Arrentium and Ariminum backwards (how the hell did I make that mistake?)

Also I finally took Taras and Rh-...that other place.

Taras went horribly. I let them lure me into the city and cut off my cavalry and lost 500 of my 1200+ men, mostly cavalry and unarmored javlin infantry as my casualties, wiping out their 570 men. Totally unacceptable.

I leanred from my mistakes assaulting the toe of the boot, however. 1500 vs 700, with only two units of Roman cavalry, my General, two Princepes, three Hastati, three slingers, one Triarii, one Samnite Hastati and the rest javelin infanty.

This time anytime they tried to engage me in the streets, I sent a column with my Princepes at the front, Hastati behind, slingers behind them and would engage, then slip my cavalry and javelineers around back, neatly hammer and anvilling them, making sure my cavalry always hit their Hoplites in the back off a charge, then immediately pulling them back to do so again. As I expected, their General panicked and sent everything to try and catch my General and Cavalry from behind and relieve their units, but my cannon fodder javelineers kept theim back untill their Hoplites broke. I quickly sent my Cavalry down a side street, nd when he persued, I sent my column of infantry at him full charge. His remaining units turned, and as soon as they engaged, my Cavalry came crashing down on his back.

Only 200 casualties this time, less than half from cavalry. Which is good, since I'm a cautious General, I expect I'll be assaulting lots of cities, so I'd better make sure I learn to get it right. Now it's 267 BC, but as soon as I've retrained my cav and heavy infantry, Messala and Syracuse should fall pretty quickly. Also the Carthage garrison at Lilybaeum is practically nonexistant.. not sure if I really want to provoke them just yet, though. I'll probably thake those two cities and look northward. I'd like to take out some more rebals before Aedui and Arveni decide to expand. Sweboz is already doing so...