Civil War?

[The Storyteller]

If you play defiensively, that will confer a significant advantage.

I'm playing the Brutii now, and the civil war has just started. I passed up the chance to take the offensive, preferring instead to let the Senate request for the suicide of my leader. When civil war broke out, I was already in control of Mephis, Thebes and Alexandra.

I sent a strong force composed of onagers, archers, legionaries and heavy cavalry to besiege Siwa, just west of Thebes. The Scipii, of course, started sending army after army against me to try and lift the siege.

As the defender, I could sit and wait while the enemy tired themselves out, all the while blasting them with flaming missiles from my onagers and archers to break their morale.

Eventually, the city fell to my forces. I exterminated the population, destroyed everything I could destroy and then let it rebel back to Scipii control. Then I sieged it again and let the Scpii fling themselves against me again.

I continued this war of attrition until they were pretty worn out. Then I took the city, exterminated them again, installed a garrison force and continued to conquer other cities. I kept a diplomat ahead of my armies so that I could see what kind of forces the Scipii were mustering. Whenever a huge army was coming my way, I stopped and played defensive again.

The defender always has an advantage... this is true of modern warfare as well as ancient. Modern generals assume that they need at least a three to one advantage when attacking a well dug in force.

[Lord Hornburg]

Hear, Hear

[Dutch_guy]

marching on Rome is not hard, when i was playing the Brutii I made 50k a turn so i had lot's of ful banner post-marius armies.
when I got the chanche for power ( i had 5 for the senat ) i marched on rome immediatly with ,y best army im Italy, and I that same turn sieged Capua.

the only threat that you can incounter is probably from the Julii, the Scipii are no threat once you take sicili and Capua.
in my game they actually tried to relief the city of Capua with some major familie member led armies. but I won and killed al their family members, so al of their territory became rebel.

once you take Rome and destroy the other roman factions you should not have a problem with getting your last regions, since you probably have about 40-45 regions.

this worked good for me, an i'm not even a very agressive player.

[Nikodemus]

the hard part is not to get the event, the hard part much rather is spelled scippie and those enormous fleets they routinely handel, not too mention the brutii and does insane mars generals and legions. its a tough nut too crack as juli when you're fleet has the funding of about 10k denarii. i have only completed one imperial campaign by the guiding hand of the juli but too me end game is ruined by every city that wants too revolt att that stage of the game.