Cowardly Scipii

[Oaty]

You are in a very good position to cripple the Scipii. Basically if thier armies don't want to fight keep taking thier towns but leave them with a standing army so they are economically deveastated. After that leave an army or 2 there to ward off the Scipii and take the war to Italy.

Even on very hard you can devastate the A.I.'s economy with this tactic. The A.I. can only cheat so much.

[Lazarou]

Cheers for all the suggestions, I'll give them a shot tonight. I was going for one of their towns (can't remember the name, directly south of Carthage) but they surrounded it then beat me back when I assaulted it. I was up against a 3/4 stack garrison, two almost full stack reinforcements and a back-up 1/4 stack army. It wasn't pretty, a mass of corpses in the roads leading to the square, although if I'd remembered to turn off the time limit at the start of the campaign I might have made it.

I think I'll try the cavalry option to get rid of them first, I prefer to do all my killing in person

[pezhetairoi]

I tend to take down Roman armies that have a chance of fleeing by deploying cavalry as far forward as possible, then sending the cavalry at an allout gallop at them. If they start withdrawing then the cavalry will be able to rout at least a few units of infantry. If they don't, well, wait for the infantry to come up and pursue conventional battle. Always worked for me. Some battles ended with only the enemy general bodyguard making it off the map.