enemy armies in my provences

**aln** · 05-08-2006, 15:46

Hope someone can answer this.
Apart from being annoying is there any down side to enemy armies wandering throughout my provinces.
I am playing as Romani and the Carthaginians are the offending faction. Having taken my time consolidating southern Italy (It's 268 B.C.), I am about to embark on the reduction of the north. Consequently I do not feel I am in a position to engage Carthage at the moment. There are enough garrison troops in the area to resist if they attack but I would have to fight a defensive war as I lack any fleets at the moment. I have trade rights with them but they refuse to ally.
I am mainly concerned that I may be losing valuable income when I need it most to replace any losses up north.

**vizigothe** · 05-08-2006, 16:24

Carthage does that, I just blitzed Sicily and pushed them off the island for refusing to remove their armies from my land. Other than that, let them roam and hope they don't attack.

**Avicenna** · 05-08-2006, 16:56

At the very least, do what vizigothe did. Give them a warning: tribute, accept or we will attack. Station a few armies next to theirs, as a warning. If they reject and do not leave in a turn, attack them and push them off Sicily. A Punic war is inevitable as the Romani, and you might as well face a weaker Carthage.

**aln** · 05-08-2006, 17:43

Yes, war with Carthage may be inevitable, but without fleets, won't I be open to blockades?.It will take a lot of time and money to build strong enough fleets to prosecute a war overseas.If I'm financialy restricted during this time I may very well go broke. I'm not sure how open to a ceasefire Carthage would be if I took Sicily, thus lessening the prospect of a quick war. I don't want to avoid war just fight on advantagous terms.

**Dooz** · 05-09-2006, 03:23

Don't even worry in the least about blockades. They hardly do any financial damage. They practically won't matter once you kick them out of Sicily as naval invasions aren't as great as they should be, at least not until the port to 1.5. Also the money you make from taking the cities and having them as part of your empire will more than make up for anything you might lost from a blockade.

**vizigothe** · 05-09-2006, 04:23

With the money you gain by taking Sicily you can procede to slowly crush them. After Sicily they still showed a lack of respect to my power so I moved on Sardina and Corsica. After that I moved to Iberia. That broke them long enough to move along the coast and connect my burgeoning empire and then move eastward.

Personally just crush Carthage like the dogs they are. :P

**Avicenna** · 05-09-2006, 07:25

Wow, vizigothe. Historical expansion? That's in the correct order, methinks. Take Illyria as well, just for the sake of historical accuracy

**edyzmedieval** · 05-09-2006, 12:36

And then take Dacia also.

Beware of Komatai and Drapanai...

**Avicenna** · 05-09-2006, 14:43

Dacia was far later though, at the time of Trajan. By that time, all of the empire that you start with in EB already belonged to the Romans, so Dacia should be the last place to take.

**Mithradates** · 05-13-2006, 13:58

In my Romani campaign i found that although Carthage only controls one city in Sciliy they just roam around the shouth of italy there must be atleast 3 rebel provinces between me and them surely they could be trying to expand their empire rather than pester me. Also the stacks they have contain units of depleted men which have no chance of doing anything!