Quote Originally Posted by VAE VICTUS
ok i began a campaign with carthage.but to my suprise, the units i have at my disposal suck.even poeni would break and run after a hard battle.every battle was a defeat or phyric(however you spell it) victory.was it just my bad generaling skills,or do the units just not compete well with the romans,also the temples confer no advantage to troops such as mars,or vulcan.

anyway the carthage of history was better equiped correct?in generalship and soldier?j/w
RUN AWAY!!
I think the game is rather correct. Carthagians infantry was a mixture of many nations. Most of them were not good. However, their cav. is excellent. So as a gerneral you have to fight the Carthagian way. Your infantry only holds the line while the cav has to decide the battle.
1. Fight the Roman cav: This should be easy; in parallal try to avoid close combat with your inf. Just pepper them with jav.
2. Get your cav in the back of the enemy: Should not be a problem after 1.
You even can start a flanking manoever with your inf. Iberians are not strong but quite fast.
3. Your cav attacks the rear. Now it is time to call your elephants.
4. Chase the enemy!

Good luck!