I Hate Macedonia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Colt374]

What Colt said, great suggestions.

Thank you Tamur.

The trick is to hit Sparta and Athens as early as possible. I had better success ignoring the Senate's first two requests (take Apollonia and blockade Syracuse, in my case), and instead focusing all my energy on getting Athens and Sparta. The Senate thought I stank.

Yep, I had the same thing when i started my Brutii campaign (it does seem the senate requests are almost always the same for each campaign), but I went with the Senate and took Apollona first. I quickly realised this was not the best strategy... You smack bang in the middle of both the Greek and Macedonian empires, so are open to attack from all sides. Thus I came up with the above strategy.

But after I had taken Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Larissa, and Thermon, and negotiated a Scipii attack on the Greeks by giving them Athens, the Senate were very happy with me.

You gave away ATHENS?? Hmm, no wonder they accepted your offer. Athens is worth a fortune in income... I was getting over 5000 a turn at one stage. I'd never give that one away, but hey, I'm greedy.

Colt.

[Basileus]

The Macedonians are tough if you let them built up, they will come with alot of cavalary so that strat Colt374 is talking about wont work on them, it works on the greek city states though.

[Kagetora]

Macedonia's base unit, levy pikemen, are easy takes, my Hastati KILL them, Macedonia is not that hard to beat, the light lancers of theirs or OK but can be beaten, I'm playing as the Scipii, and a war just broke out netween Rome and Macedon, and I have just finished off the Greeks. To beat them, you just have to keep after them and keep attcking them, I have all their startig territitories right now, and I'm fighting a war with them, Egypt and Numidia at the same time (already have carthage territory and lost some Greek areas to Egpytion expansion into west Turkey, but now I have Alexandria and there is almost no resistance down there, so there getting kicked in there own back yard.

macedonia has better units when they get teched up and get their better Pikemen but they are still very beatable.

[Dorkus]

not either or.

in my very hard very hard game, I took apollonia (which has dismal defenses, and really only requires a general and one unit of infantry), syracuse, corinth, and sparta (in that order) in the first few rounds. just keep pumping out hastati and cav, sell map info, ceasefires (right before you attack again) with your diplomats, and concentrate your forces.

I think I also had carthage by turn 7 or so.

[Doug-Thompson]

DESTROY the Macedonians. Don't destroy or enslave the cities, but destroy the army. There is no peace between the Brutii and the Macedonians. Get that notion right out of your head.

I'm inordinately proud to be the author of the very first strategy guide posted in the RTW Guide section: The "Brutii Blitz."

The guide gives step-by-step instructions on how to destroy those "brass helmet wearing b@$*@#!!" There's a specific reference to building a fort to block that back-door northern pass to Apollonia while blitzing the rest of Greece.

[pyhhricvictory]

Thanks Everyone. I will have to try them again.