Carthage has a sort of attraction to me over the other nations. This has something to do with the trial version of Age of Empires - The Rise of Rome expansion pack which I played in the late nineties (it came with the Windows 98 SE CD Sampler).
As some may know, the trial, which was my first ever experience of an RTS game, contained three campaigns containing Carthage's first fight against Rome in the Mediterranean - the First Punic War.
Despite later buying The Settlers III, which kept me enthralled for a fairly long time, I never forgot this introduction to the world of RTS. For some inexplicable reason, these memories made me rather interested in playing as Carthage under various circumstances. This is an opportunity which I rarely get (Carthage isn't really famous enough to end up in most games), so I usually exploit it wherever possible.
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