Has anyone ever seen...?

[rebelscum]

Of course, my Greek City armies trounce the romans. Here's what you do. Try to get archers early and get as many Cretan archers. Wait for romans to attack your city then as soon as they do, attack the besiegers, and place archers on the walls. They then run up to the city and get wiped out. This was so succesful that Brutii wiped themselves out completely. I then took most of Macedon, and the island of Sicily. I launched my attack from there and took the roman peninsula. I am playing on V hard/vhard/huge.
If the patch changes the AI so they dont rush the city, that would improve things a great deal, otherwise the game is too easy.

[Shadow]

Nope I didn’t see any non-player controlled non-Roman faction take and hold a city on the Italian peninsula but I do see Carthage landing a full stack on the peninsula once but was push back into their ships the very next turn by a combine of senate and Scipii army.

And that was the only time I saw any non-Roman faction setting foot on the peninsula expect the Guals.

[KyodaiSteeleye]

Well in my Brutii long campaign, the Gauls veritably kicked the Julii's collective arses - they took two of the Julii's cities near the start of the game - i had to go up and take them back FOR them. And then they had the cheek to keep them (damn allies!).