in the form of taking the Bruttis home town!!!!, that right, gather up a army in Scily and sail to Italy and take the lightly defended Brutties home, without them the underdeveloped Apollonia and Solonia will not be a problem. You should stay relatively defensive on the Balkans after ur initial moves, and on Asia minor take the chaces as they present, I was able to take Sardis when the Selucids declared war on me but left that city lightly defended, however I soon gave it back to them in exchange for them to become my protectrate.Īfter you mop up Sciliy, it's time to join fronts, the best solution to ur Balkans problem is reinforcement from Sciliy. after this get a peace deal with carthage (keep trying) as their trade will be VERY good for you. so the key on those front is SURVIVE.Īfter takign Cornith and Athens, you should shift ur focus to Sciliy, where Carthage and Scipiies should by now thrown away their armies under ur walls or against each other, build up a bit, and wait for the volcano to go off, then take Messina, and then head west to finish your conquest. Remember, as long as you can keep ur holdings, time is on YOUR side, as you will be filthy rich thx to Rhodes, while on ur other 2 fronts ur enemies will often start killing each other if they find u a hard nut to crack, and on Sciliy, the Scipiies have a volcano under their butt that can wipe out half their army when it goes off.

On the Balkans, I highly advice against going for Cornith first, I find seiging Athens while the Macedonians are counter attacking a very bad idea, although war with them is inevitable, having Athens under ur control by the time it comes really help. if you aren't sure u can hold the walls, put all ur stuff in the square, this is espically true for Pergamum where u don't have the stone wall, luckily the Selucids will rarely have enough effort to hit you there, while Pontus does not have the quality infantry (for a while) to beat ur well positioned milita hoplits. General approach: defend on Syracuse and Pergamum, your first priority will be taking Athens and Cornith, thus at least securing one of ur fronts.Īlthough the odds look bad, it's acturally not THAT bad, you start with a stone wall on syracuse, which means it's pretty hard to seige you, the AI will rarely wait out the 7-8 turns and will attack after 2-3 turns if they seige, build lots of milita hoplits in both Syracuse and Pergamum. or Greek city states, successfuly without havin to abandon fronts. After playing with a few restart, I think i finally figure out how to play the Aegean league.

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