Quote Originally Posted by sapi
As the greeks, defending the sicillian province is easy with archers, so keep that.

Try to get peace with macidonia so you can concentrate on the brutii and their attacks. Rule the seas.

The key to overcoming the romans is to land in italy early. I have just taken all the cities up to rome - the scipii are destroyed and i am seiging the brutii's last city.....it's time to march on rome!
There's quite a few ways to play the Greek Cities; I usually don't try to keep Syracuse and concentrate on Greece first - take Athens, attack the Macedonians, take Corinth, then start moving up towards Thessalonica in order to create a nice big group of unified provinces. Defend only against the Brutii at first, then attack them later after you have Thessalonica. Build roads so that you can move your troops quickly. Build lots of ports - the Greece area is a goldmine for sea-trade. Then I usually expand east from Pergamum and Rhodes... leaving the Romans to do their thing and tackle them later.