Quote Originally Posted by al Roumi View Post
Sadly, that's just not realistic is it. You have to use navies in a Rome campaign, at least from the start again the Etruscans and then Carthaginians. Nerfing transports (which on paper sounds the right thing to do) means you really have to have an escort fleet in order to take the islands and make your landings in Africa. I don't think the long way round through Iberia (from Rome, not starting in Iberia as Hannibal did) has ever been a practical alternative.

They really ahd better impriove naval battles or they are in effect forcing a chore on players.
Meh, just leave the Etruscans on their little island. I've never had a problem with sending transports over there either yet. They never built a navy to stop me yet.
As for the war against Carthage, yes, I take (or took in my last campaign) the land route. Syracuse was my ally though and I didn't particularly want to backstab them while the rest of everything that was even remotely Greek loved them. I also got an alliance with the Arveni because they were at war with someone in Cisalpina, so that kept them off my back while I rampaged through Spain.

In this campaign here, I built 3 navies, so I could get the requirement for naval units maintained at the end: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...onomic-victory