Carthage.. An aim to rule the mediterranean
Intro
After reading some of the other AAR’s i decided to create my own.
Choosing which faction was difficult on vanilla i would get 50-60 years into each roman faction and get bored of the boring roman units. But the host of new units for the factions in XGM is brilliant. I played a campaign as the Greeks but never got to finishing it and also have played a short campaign as the Spanish who i really enjoyed playing as. Carthage was a good option for me the fantastic AOR recruitment system meant that right from the start Carthage has a large roster of units.
Unfortunately I only decided to do this AAR in the year 263 BC so a quick whats happened so far:
The majority of my time and attention has been focused on silkily, i had many a good battle on this island with the roman rebels and indie Greeks, Messana changed hands about 6 times, including once when Epiros brought his whole army down and took it in an epic battle in which 5 of my generals died, just after I thought I had cleared the island. The roman rebels are wiped off the map and i now control Croton and all of Sicily with a small garrison of indie Greeks in Tarentum and Rome controlling the Italic
peninsula.
I conqurered the small rebel town in Cydaus in north Africa, and decided that desite being allies with the eastern kingdoms i should relieve them of the territory and unite north Africa under one banner so currently Cirta which has a large garrison and Siga which has a skeletal garrison are under siege and close to falling. Building wise all towns have been heading for economic and trading with the exception of Carthage which has been
pushing up military tree.
Not much in spain I took the rebel town of Arsa but due to pouring all my money in to the Sicilian campaign have not been able to build up a large army to fight the Iberians.
Game settings:
Difficulty : Hard/Hard
Fatigue, loyalty and AI bonuses all turned off.
Forced diplomacy only when it seems reasonable.
A note about images, been playing round with the colours for the factions out of boredom, sorry if the colours are a bit to bright XD helps me see the map easier.
As it stands in summer 263bc
Chapter 1 – Beginnings of an empire
Summer 263 BC
The Garrison of Certa sallies forth to attack my besieging army.
As can be seen the two armies are equal in number, the garrison fields a lot more skirmishers and has no heavy infantry in comparison to my more conventional army.
Rough plan of action is to engage the Numidian skirmishers in hand to hand and use my Bedouin warriors and archers to chase of Numidia cavalry.
Having fired many arrows in the army stays in the castle so i decide as the gate is open to rush with my spearmen, I expect heavy casualties as the skirmishers will all be throwing there javelins even when their comrades are in melee with the spearmen.
The casualties start mounting and I retreat out of the towns walls deciding that if I can wait them out it is only another turn until the enemy surrender the city.
The time is waited out so a draw is the result although i somehow capture the city. I show them respect in just occupying the settlement as i want to integrate the citizens in to the Carthaginian way of life.
Winter 263 BC
One of my smaller fleets is destroyed after repeated attacks by roman fleets.
Siga Falls without a fight the same mercy as the People of Certa is bestowed on them. The Carthaginians wish to rule the mediterranean but not by an iron fist mearly for profit and expanision of eastern civilization.
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Interesting factions colours too. Looking forward to more of this.
Originally Posted by simonsnizle
