I've found that Javelins were the most effective for me for taking down elephants.
Are any more reforms planned that have yet to be implemented? It keeps the game interesting as you go on for the Romans to have access to new units.
I've found that Javelins were the most effective for me for taking down elephants.
Are any more reforms planned that have yet to be implemented? It keeps the game interesting as you go on for the Romans to have access to new units.
I'm saying this a lot but if you want to know about the reforms you can find them in the faq. It might be more fun however if they come as a surprise.
A funny thing happened to me - I moved into Sicily, took Messina and began besieging Syracuse and sent a diplomat over to the carthaginians just to scout a bit and once I saw they had 3 rather large armies stationed in Sicily I decided it was time for a gift - I offered them map information as a gift and their response was something along the lines of "Enough of this profitless alliance." So I lost the beginning alliance by simply trying to give a gift. So Hasdrubal (Heir) and a full 15 unit army came over to take my besieging army, I get a solid victory and kill Hasdrubal in the fight - now they've launched full out assaults everywhere, I think killing Hasdrubal was a very, very bad thing to do.
Has anyone else received similar responses? They sent an army at my Syracuse-besieging army, my Messina garrison, and have landed an army near Tarentum and now have half a dozen fleets around me. I'm panicking and they won't hear a word my diplomat has to say. What's the best reaction do you guys think?
Retreat to the peninsula to consolidate your forces. Hold Rhegion (and the strait) to keep the Sicilian armies there, and keep powerful enough garrisons on the mainland for when they try a naval invasion; Triarii with a Greek-style defense is a good idea. Once you're sure you can hold what you have, start cranking out armies of your own; start with retaking Sicily. They're already cranking out Sacred Band-level units on my game, which are tough without going for a Triarii swarm. You need to halt that initial advance and then strike hard at Carthage. If you can take Carthage, you should be okay--it's still their main economic center. Raze everything you can there, leave a couple units for a token defense, retreat to Sicily, then offer them a ceasefire. If they don't accept or they retake Carthage, hit them again, this time Carthage and Adrumeto. Ippone's also a possibility. If you have enough spare units at this time, try for Sardinia too. That'll give you a strong economic center and leave them with some crappy southern-Iberia and African desert provinces. Then leave enough units there for defense and move on to Greece.
Well, I drove them out of everywhere, held Sicily and toko Corsica and Sardinia then sent a nice large army into mainland Carthage - needless to say the sued for peace. I granted it to them (pulling about 7k mnai out of 'em because of desperation) then moved back to the Epirotes and tookc are of them. They are no longer! Now I have a strong base, sending an army to the Iberian to act as a shield against Carthaginian growth and we'll see where it goes from here.
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