Attacking Capitals -- What does it do?
My Scipii Campaign got boring, I never wanted to play as the Romans at the start, months ago when I learned about this game and the fact that I could play as the Spartans & Greeks, I KNEW that would be the faction I'd be, to for my Spartan Empire & crush all enemies.
After I learned about the game file mod that allows you to play all factions, I quit my Scipii Campaign & started as the Spartans. Sparta is my Capital right now, I own Athens, few others, an island, Syacrase on Sicily.
From the 2nd turn, Scipii has fought for Sycrase about 7 times, all lost, as I personally defended the city. I'm holding them off well, but now the War they started has four factions vs. 1, me. All the Roman families, & the Senate. Not counting Macedonia, Carthage, & another. Which havent bothered me in a while since they to came under hard oppression from Rome.
I personally dispise the Romans in my game. In the battles, they've thrown away the lives of thousands of their men in hopeless attempts to take down my armies. (playing with unit size Large, 81 men a unit)
Juli hasent really bothered me much, just landed an army of 1,700+ men by Athens, which was whiped out horribly 1,700+ killed enemies to less than 400 losses. Mostly Scipii & Bruti, that have hurt me so much. Their at last pushing me back & I'm now at defence stance, just holding them off. I just recently broke three seiges of my main cities in my Home Land! Reason they gained so much lee-way to much home land was because I divised a devine plan, to bring the fight, to the enemy. I built up a strike army, of 5,000+ men. I then built a massive fleet, to transport them. I sent my Emperor with them, to make himself a name to live on.
We shipped out to the west once all the ships were combined together in a gigantic fleet. I sent two fleets to bock the straight between Sicily & the boot of Italy, to ward off any enemy ships, & scout the way to ensure a save journey for the army, & to protect them.
All was clear most of the journey, but then when they shores of the heal of Italy were at last in sight, that move ended. The next move, they moved in, and then the enemy must have gotten the word of our plan, and had placed a fairly large but sophisticated fleet in our path. We fought hard, no one lost any ships, but some of mine were routed. The majority made it, and I landed about a good army of 4,000 strong on the shores. Which in the biggest unit mode is like 15,000 men or more.
Their on a suicide mission, they wont be returning to the Capital, or any of our home lands. Their on that peninsula for one thing, the destruction of the Romans.
Our first strike is to take out the Bruti Capital, which is like 100 miles (or one move) away from all of my forces. This is not going to be your typical attack. I'm going to use many fire units & seiege weapons. After I crack a nice massive hole in their walls & blast down their main gates, I'm going to fire upon the city itself & their units. Once I'm all out of the ammo, then the calvery will charge in, followed by a nice phalanx of my soliders. I'm going to try & make the seige last forever with us inside of the city, to make the fires burn out of control & highly damage the city. Once I take it, I'm going to exterminate the populace. And if its possible like it was in Medieval Total War, I'm going to destroy every single building that I can there, make their Capital their decimated city.
Then I'll move on to Scipii's Capital, which isnt but a few moves away, and do the same. Then if I have the strength, Rome, and if strength still remains, the Juli Capital. All four capitals sqacqued. If I do this, even to just Bruti alone, what will occur to their Empires? Will they be civil wared? Or just continue on, with the horrible losses they sustained?
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Its going to be hard, but I'm still debating on massacring the populace, or just keeping it for my slaves, which I have extensive number of. 
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