i am playing Carthage on VH -campaign/M-battles. i had just come off playing M:TW so a lot of my play was influenced by what worked there. i started off by getting an alliance with the greeks and the spanish and a little later i also got an alliance with the britannia before sending my diplomats around the world to get as many trade agreements as possible. once the scippii attacked the greeks i attacked them and took Mesaana. as this was only my second campaign and i hadn't discovered this board, i thought this would cripple the scippi for a while and i went on to take out the numidians leaving siwa. imagine my surprise when the bruti landed a large army at mesaana and the julii landed at caralis. i defeated the brutii army but lost caralis. as i was preparing an army at carthage to take back caralis another brutii army landed near thapsus, so i had to take them out. then the greeks on sicily decided to attack lillybyem so i had to take out syraceus. after sinking a few greek ships, they offered me a ceasefire which i took. meanwhile the scippi were landing unimpressive armies for me to demolish on sicily. during all this the spanish kept trying to bribe my general in cordoba and failing. i decided to take out the romans and landed troops in southern italy and easily took out the brutii cities and capua (amazingly the brutti had not conquered anything in greece so i ended up wiping out both factions). i took out rome, reconquered caralis and took out the numidians in the siwa. as soon as i took siwa though, massive egyptian armies appeared and chased me out of siwa. i then took the three julii provinces in northern italy and paid them a lot of denari to become a protectorate. because the julli were allied with the egyptians, as soon as they became a protectorate, i automatically got a ceasefire with the egyptians. meanwhile the britons had taken out the gauls and celtiberia was now a rebel city. after taking numantia i decided to break my alliance with the spanish and took them out easily in a few turns. i also took crete which once i build a port there is a good little money earner. during this time the egyptians broke the ceasefire and i have spent much of my time with them just battling over siwa (there is about 6 famous battlesites around siwa now) before finally pushing them back. i have just taken cyprus, thebes, memphis and alexandria but am now facing unrest in a lot of my cities. and memphis and alexandria are suffering from the plague. also i didnt know about getting rid of foreign temples in the cities i've conquered so this is probally a contributing factor in my unrest problems. plus i didnt know anything about controlling population growth. i think i shoud have exterminated the populace in the three main egyptians cities as they are all huge cites. I did find myself reling mainly on my cavalry in battles though.
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