Quote Originally Posted by Hannibal Khan the Great View Post
I think he means the AI is too incompetent to last as long as Carthage or Rome did during the Punic wars. And he is most certainly correct!
correct. Carhage ingame doesnt even get any Q (... long name) ships ingame when playing against it. ingame it feel more like a second punic war without hannibal. Carthage totally striped of its navy edge and a purely militia/light infantry army. I know it would require additional scripting and starting stats but Carthage is a walk in the park as Rome even on hardest difficulty. Sure they have two full stacks in Iberia but they hardly use them, and Gisgo gets lost in the Desert so that only leaves a stack of poeni milita, inberi lights with two elephants in Silicy to contest your might for all of Silicy and Africa.

and of course after you take Silicy and its islands of Sardinia/Alatia Carthage AI goes bankrupt from Gisgo stack, and the Iberia stacks. So it barely does anything until you kill.