Roman: Brutii

[The_Emperor]

Now thats a pretty nifty temple bonus! I think i'll play them next, (after I conquer with the Greeks first)

[Lonewarrior]

Which way should I go, west into spanish territorry or up north?

[Doug-Thompson]

After taking Greece? East. Get ready for the war with Egypt.

[Lonewarrior]

Yes I was planing on doing that

[Doug-Thompson]

If the reforms of Marius haven't kicked in yet, you may want to wait for that before killing the Egyptians.

Most important, though, build up the navy. Egypt has very rich trade but only a few ports. Blockade them and the Egyptians are in trouble.

[Lonewarrior]

Yes thanks Doug

[vodkafire]

Also, temple of Juno halves culture penalty! Too bad the Brutii doesn't have a good naval temple, like Neptune, but I guess Mars makes up for it. The Julii seem to have the weakest temples, especially since bacchus causes drinking traits in your governors...

[Kietharr]

I found an interesting strategy in my last Brutii game. I decided to toss things up and after taking Apollina, Syracuse, Dalmatia and Illyria like usual I decided to avoid Greece and go after Carthage. I destroyed Carthage and Numidia, but the real benefit here was that the Scipii were never able to expand. In addition to their two starting provinces they only ever captured Sardinia/Corsica. When civil war came I was faced with a Scipii faction only slightly more advanced than it was in 270BC. Of course, this tactic comes at the price of delaying a Greek conquest, but neither the Julii nor the Scipii attempted to attack Greece in my case.

[Celtic_Punk]

Thats what I did and scipio went for Greece, I had to abandon Carthage and blitz Greece. but not in time to stop scipio jumping over to Turkey. I made short work of their laterally expanded empire though in the civil war. Though my greek campaign, I took over sicily first and scipio never moved out of Italy... This was all on M/M

As soon as you think you can predict AI behavior, they go and do something totally different!