Quote Originally Posted by Sun_Tzu View Post
It is the winter of 246 BC. After 20 long years the Italian peninsula is finally unified under the banner of the Julii. The southern half of our Empire is finally secure. All is not peaceful however. Rebel Brigands have been popping up quite often in the past two years. The Gauls, damned Gauls, continue to attack in large numbers from the north. We do not wish to expand in that direction at the moment but it seems that it may be our only option to stop the raids as they are allied with the Britons and Dacians. We have not had any military engagements with the Dacians over the past few years though we see their forces moving around at our borders.

In world news, while we have been busy focusing on our Civil War, other great empires have emerged. The Greeks have destroyed the Macedonians and carved an empire encompassing all of Greece and upwards into Illyria. The Egyptians have reached Asia Minor, they have a 3 way alliance with Pontus and Armenia but we shall see how long that last now that their common enemy, the Seleucids are reduced to only owning Seleucia. The Dacians and Gaulic tribes are the largest and most powerful of the barbarian factions. Carthage, our allies, has not done much to expand lately though they seem to be mobilizing forces in Spain. Speaking of the Spanish, for some odd reason they have landed a army in Scipii controlled Sicily? Strange as they have not expanded at all so far, and they are not at war with the Scipii.


The task at hand now is to secure our northern front, destroy the Scipii by conquering Sicily, and to eliminate the Brutii by conquering their two remaining settlements.
This seems like the way to go - always found that late game forced civil war annoying and it doesn't happen when you are non-Roman. I only defeated the Senate armies early once and it was accidental (and I couldn't remember what that did as per missions). The Juli attacked my Brutti capital, were defeated, and i marched on their capital. While passing Rome, the Rome garrison attacked me, were wiped out, and, suddenly, I owned Rome. Go figure! :)