Carthage imploded

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Man that stinks. I hate when campaigns go bad after a long time playing. It makes me feel like so much time wasted...

I'm sorry about what happened, but I don't know exactly what you should do without having every single detail. Either way, good luck!

[Papewaio]

Your first battle is with the treasury. Once you win this one the rest is relatively easy.

Quick way to do this is drop the difficulty of the game you are playing.
Autoresolve the battles.
Concentrate on finding out what you need to do to create a strong economy.
Don't worry about the battles, you can always outperform the AI.
Just get used to figuring out on low difficulty battles/high strategic on how to make money and stay stable. Once you figure that out then play a full game.

[Syxx_Killer]

Thanks guys. I did abandon the Carthage campaign, so maybe I will start another. I do like playing as the Romans, but that Senate really irritates me.

Generally I find the best rule is either to begin by furiously attacking, raiding, and conquering everything around you ASAP or beginning slowly, making sure to make every koku/florin/denarius count (build things like roads, docks and trade) and cautiously building up and expanding, always with an eye to what will make the most money. Then, once you're consistently "in the black" (making a profit) you can think about world domination.

If I am playing the Romans, how can I be conservative, with the Senate breathing down my neck? I hate to let missions slide, and if I don't do one, I will lose popularity. If I constantly ignore the Senate, will they wage war with me before the civil war?

Quick way to do this is drop the difficulty of the game you are playing. Autoresolve the battles.

I used to use that feature, but it hurts me more that helps. Right now I play on Easy/Easy as I get to know RTW better. I am doing short campaigns at the moment.

[Rilder]

yea i hate auto-calc.. its more fun to command on your own and get practice on the battlefield and own :P

[Papewaio]

Missing the point, battles are easy to win.

Getting the treasury under control is more difficult. If you can win a battle on Auto calc you will easily win it if you controlled it. However as a time saver and mind focus tool, auto calc allows you to focus on the strategic portion of the game and to focus on the treasury aspect.

[darsalon]

On the other side it's a bit dissapointing to do that when you're missing half the game with the battles. And as the Carthaginians you need to fight you're battles a lot otherwise you get creamed in autoresolve....well that's what I've found anyway. Oh yes, and the best battles are as the Carths as they're ofter quite close against the romans because of the crap Carth infantry.

Sorry, as you can tell it goes against my soul to autoresolve too many battles

As the others have said, infrastructure is the key to winning this game. So it's ports, roads and economic buildings that'll keep the money coming in. Have one or two cities get the higher level barracks and stables so the units they crank out will stand up to the Romans better and the rest use for economy. I am however saying this from the point of view of someone who didn't have to give up a single province as the Carths in my last campaign with them. From most strategies I've read up on a lot of people have to give up Carthago Nova or Caralis or both.

[PseRamesses]

Carthage is a bit tricky. Initially you´re fine, great economy and you can build decent troops. In the end you can actually build yourself into a stagnant economy if you´re not careful.

1. Take Sicily: I gather all troops in my "eastern hemisphere" here. Sack Syracuse and Messana.
Think ZoR (zone of recruitment), mine are Carthago, Corduba and Sicily. In all other settlements focus on building only ports, traders, markets, mines etc. In Thapsus I cue up peasants since it has an obcene growth rate. I use theese to bolster my pop in Caralis and Palma etc. to get them to the next level. Upgrade ports, markets, mines etc The key to Carthage is trade and maximum evolved ports.

2. With one force in Sicily and one in Corduba eridicate Numidia. Move Sicilian force on rebel Lepcis Magna and Nepte and at this point take Tingi and Cirta with the Corduba force while the Sicilian army moves from Nepte on Dimmidi. Use fleet for transport from Tingi to Cirta. Corduba army goes back to Iberia and Sicily army swings back towards Lepcis Magna to take Cyrene and Siwa.
A third army should now be forming in the Carthago/ Lilybaeum area to guard Sicily.

Many players goes for Iberia at this point which I don´t prefer. There are richer spoils out there. I go for Egypt, atleast Mephis, Thebes and Alexandria. I´m also keen on Crete, Cyprus and, ofcourse Rhodos with the trade boosting colossus. This is mainly for the reason that I actually want a strong Roman opposition when I decide to move on them and Egypt gets annoyingly strong fast so I just remove them from the equation.