Quote Originally Posted by Bootsiuv View Post
BTW, I agree that Syrakousai and Massilia are two completely different powers.

If you include Massilia, then arguments could be made for any greek colony....How about Emporion as a faction? :P
emporion would be part othe massilia kingdom perhaps ...

anyway i don´t see why a western mediterranean greek kingdom would be so far fetched an alliance beteween massilia and syracuse to reconquer sardinia and corsica back from the poenii

since the 6th century bc greeks and poenii had a standing war wich was what allowed carthage to become the poenii superpower by being the defender of punic interests against the greek expansionists (peace treaties beteween massilia and carthage interests are well know the same for the wars beteween carthage and syracuse)

the 1st punic war happened to stop the poenii from cutting of the mediterrenean in two (conquering messina would mean there was no available passage beteween the western and eastern mediterranean unleass you bowed down to the poenii since the other passage was beteween lilibeo and carthage itself)

probably that can be the syracusean victory conditions to reconquer all the greek lands stolen by the poenii (the islands my friends the islands)