Quote Originally Posted by Macilrille View Post
It seems that Syracuse had been quite a power for a few centuries, but was deadlocked with Carhage, then overshadowed by a certain bunch of latins as they took over S Italy. From then on it was either for or against these, the course of the Punic wars and the two powers locked in combat left little room for others to assert themselves independently. Everyone in the W Med (plus Macedonia) took sides in that struggle, on one was left out.

When EB starts, well... there is a chance that the Syracusans might reassert themselves and could thus be a faction with its own independent goals.
I wasn't implying Syracuse wasn't powerful, I was implying that as far as I had heard, they were content with their status as a sovereign city-state and would not be interested in expansion, but rather only in self-preservation if the Romans or Carthaginians tried to subjugate the city. And I believe one of the general guidelines for an EB faction is that it would be interested in active expansion. But I guess I may have been misremembering the true situation of Syracuse.