Quote Originally Posted by Fahad I
Which will be easy since you start with Segesta and Segestica, the closest rebel cities to Rome.
Both of these settlements are always taken early on though (Julii and Brutii), so its not quite as easy as you may imagine it.

The rebels are, in all honesty, a very difficult faction to play as. The AI is programmed to target rebel settlements first, and their monetary situation is in chaos having scattered low quality settlements filled with corruption. This makes it difficult to train military forces and dominate opponents.