More importantly: As long as the Etruscan League is alive, Rome seems to concentrate on them. So you must use your Navy to fight of any Roman Legions, which is totally doable. My approach is nonetheless dangerous because you can’t really fight of any LANDED on your islands or in Carthage with ease. If you give them time to build up, they are literally everywhere at the same time and very difficult to fight off with your limited armies. Also the Berber-tribes tend to stack-spam much more than Rome, because they build their armies mostly of very cheap units. With 4 more settlements as economic background a conflict with Rome was winnable. I tried several approaches (one was even to break my alliance with Lybia) but what worked best for me was to first pacify the west (so the Turdetani and the Gaetuli) and afterwards the South (Garamantia). So you must prioritize one front and fight (or not at all) defensively on the others. To fight on all fronts aggressively, you would need at least 3 big armies (one in Hispania and western Africa, one to the South and one to fight Romans in the center) - you have neither the funds nor the time to build them up. To give an example: The Masaesyli down in Mauretania are normally on friendly terms with you - but since they just can expand through Nova Carthago, they will do it sooner or later.Īs a consequence you will be (most likely) fighting a war on multiple fronts until turn ~30 and desperately try to consolidate your power. A major “casus belli” is a shared border between your client state and them. Post turn 10ish it is impossible to foretell what will happen in a game, so be watchful - especially because your client-states tend to drag you into wars - Even if YOU have a non-aggression treaty with another faction, the AI still will attack client states of yours. In my legendary campaign only Syracuse didn’t declare war on me that early. So in the worst case scenario you may be at war with all of them before Turn 10. If we look again onto the map, we see a much more grim strategic situation: The diplomatic penalty is harsh and at least I got declared by all mentioned factions even earlier. Syracuse is not as likely to declare war as the other three, but it happens too - especially if you are playing as the Barcid Dynasty. But they are not your only problem because also the Gaetuli to the southwest and the Garamantia to the southeast are always tempted to declare war on you or on your client states very soon. Rome always declared war on me within the first ~10 turns. So in Turn 0 your start looks not that bad at all but (at least in difficulties Hard and higher) you will be confronted with a multi-front war very soon: Even though you are NOT at war with Rome, this conflict is inevitably. You have two armies, one in Qart Hadasht and one in Carthago and a fleet between Sicily and Sardinia. You can click the map to go to the interactive map-planer. Your provinces are shown in white, Client States in green and opponents in red. Additionally you have two Client States: Nova Carthago to the west and Lybia to the east of Carthago and you are at war in Hispania with the Turdetani. Carthage has 4 initial provinces: Carthago (Capital of Province Africa), Lilybaeum (Settlement in Magna Greacia), Karalis (Capital of Corsica et Sardinia) and Qart Hadasht (Capital of Cartaginensis).
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