Punic Wars trigger

**Intranetusa** · 03-04-2007, 04:22

Is there a Punic Wars trigger in EB?

I'm playing Roman and Carthage betrayed our alliance and attacked Syracuse (owned by me) on 262 BCE.

Was this the correct trigger?

EDIT: by the way, this was on Very Hard Campaign, Medium Battle

**CountArach** · 03-04-2007, 04:50

If Rome spends at least a turn around Messana or the territory it is in then Carthage will declare war on Rome.

**Intranetusa** · 03-05-2007, 02:19

Carthage just sued for peace after I conquered all of Sicily (just 1 battle and 1 seige)...is this normal? That was a very very short Punic War. :D

**Thaatu** · 03-05-2007, 09:16

RTW can't handle a guerilla war. It's up to the player to stall the conquest of Sicily if he so chooses. For example in my Carthaginian campaign the first Punic War started in 267bc when a Roman fleet blockaded Carthage after I had taken Messana. In about 265 they took Messana, I took it back in maybe 262. 256 I sacked Syracusa to fund my mobilization. 255 they really started bringing armies to Sicily and took Messana and in a few years Syracusa went too. In the ten years that followed Hamalcar won a couple of heroic battles and in 245 his army was beaten and he left for Iberia. In 241bc Lilibeo fell and there was peace. It went pretty nice, although I took Messana too early.

**antisocialmunky** · 03-05-2007, 17:37

Originally Posted by Intranetusa

Carthage just sued for peace after I conquered all of Sicily (just 1 battle and 1 seige)...is this normal? That was a very very short Punic War. :D

That's what happened in real life if I recollect correctly. Carthage lost Sicily in the first war. The AI has a few problems iwth resupplying Sicily I've noticed too.

**Rilder** · 03-05-2007, 21:22

Yea mine was kinda simular, the first Punic war was Me taking sicily and the the islands west of rome, second Punic war was the First Legions Conquering of Kart-Hadast (city not entire place) and the 3rd which has just started is Hannos retaking of Kart-Hadast and destruction of the entire First Legion. (Those bloody Carthaginians synced up an army and a half coming from different directions, the half stack going straight after Kart-hadast and the second full stack lead by Hanno going directly after the first legion, destroying it.)