After Hannibal, who's next?

[caspian]

I was wondering where you guys expanded to after beating Hannibal the Cunning?
-against Gaul and the barbarians to the north
-the Greeks to the east
-the Carthaganians to the south west

Or did you took a break from war to biuld up the economy?

[sgthunter]

Parthia are the Romans worst enemy. I would crush them before they grow too strong.

[Samariten]

Historicaly Carthage, though greeks will become powerfull if you leave them alone...take sicily and carali first and then decide for youre own....

PS

Dont fight germans, spain or eastern factions with pre marius tho

[Black Francis]

Sicily and Corsica/Sardinia, then time to take the fight to the Carthaginians at home.

[jackwei]

the greeks have destroyed thrace and macedon in my rome file and are advancing well into the crimea. the greeks seem very powerful at the moment and will be very hard to crush since i am concerntrating on protection of the Narbo frontier and taken all carthage lands in africa preparing for invasion of Spain from two directions the south and through gaul.

[^Gr8^Xander]

I just took my city in Sicilia back and conquered the Greek one over there.
Now it's Carthage vs me to conquere the whole island.

Also, the Greeks got kicked out of mainland Greece by Macedonia.
And since my total amound of soldiers is around twice as much as Macedonia's is, I assume they won't attack me.
(+ I'm having a Legion in a fort at my borders with Germania/Macedonia, so I can respond if they attack.)

And I'm moving 2 legions into Gaul at the moment, trying to get my hands on the town with the mine, somewhere in the middle of lower-Gaul.

[GaussSoldier]

I took Corsica and Sicily and was planning my invasion of Carthage when the Gauls turned up the heat and began attacking more frequently. When Patavium rebelled, the Germans took the city on the next turn. Then, somehow, a german full stack got past my legion on that border and sieged Arminium. I had to call back the three legions in North Africa and recruit two more to hold off the Germans. I relieved the siege with three legions and completely destroyed the army. I now have Nicea and Mediolanum and have surrounded Patavium. I've had to send two legions to Spain to take those gold mines from the Carthiginians, I'm getting low on cash with all the legions I have to support.

So it's going well, for now.

[Roman Clone]

I took Corsica and Sicily and was planning my invasion of Carthage when the Gauls turned up the heat and began attacking more frequently. When Patavium rebelled, the Germans took the city on the next turn. Then, somehow, a german full stack got past my legion on that border and sieged Arminium. I had to call back the three legions in North Africa and recruit two more to hold off the Germans. I relieved the siege with three legions and completely destroyed the army. I now have Nicea and Mediolanum and have surrounded Patavium. I've had to send two legions to Spain to take those gold mines from the Carthiginians, I'm getting low on cash with all the legions I have to support.

So it's going well, for now.

Unless you are playing a mod, that army was magically placed there by scripts. In my games, the Germans are held of by the Britons.

[lt1956]

Roman CLone, this is a SPQR forum thread. lol

[Funnage]

I decided to start a new game after wanting to shop around the block, played some BI mod similar to BI, fun for awhile but I missed the Roman Legion set up and it started to feel more like M2TW than Rome, then for some reason I wanted to play Rome Surrectum, but that didn't take and now I'm back here because SPQR is pretty much the only mod that is able to be installed on my PC for some reason and it totally kicks ass. So heres what I plan on doing when I get it installed again.

After taking out Hannibal I'll do two things, sent two legions up north to take the surrounding Gaul Cities and act as D, and sent a legion into Sicily. After taking Sicily, I'll send two legions to take Greece from the underbelly, Sparta, while sending atleast 5 legions into Carthage. My gaul campaign will be on hold until I take Carthage and expect slow moving campaign in Carthage with me sending legions back to Sicily or Caralis to be retrained to full strength. I do expect Gaul to be sending stack after stack in the North but their armies are easy to beat the pose no challenge on the field. Once Africa is under Roman control, on the Carthage side, 3 legions would then uppercut into the soft underbelly of Gaul while 2 legions will be sent to the front in Greece which should be attacking the Macedonians.

[Alatar]

If Sparta isGreeces underbelly I'd hate to see it's strong spots.

I did the same more or less, but you'll need to change your legion numbers, on in scilliy won't work, neither will two in greece.

[Darkie]

At my campaign Puntus is getting very hard to beat, i got 5 city's near the crimea, 3 near asia, britain + ireland and some towns in France and afcourse main land italy and sicily and carali and palma. Got Athene,sparta, Corinth, thessalonica and Salona

[Funnage]

If Sparta isGreeces underbelly I'd hate to see it's strong spots.

I did the same more or less, but you'll need to change your legion numbers, on in scilliy won't work, neither will two in greece.

Took sicily with one before, greece is the new Challenge. I say underbelly as a term for position with Greece, I don't expect Sparta to be a cake walk, although when I did take Syracuse and the army sally, which was mostly Spartans, I did find them not all that.

[Garnier]

Sparta is perhaps the hardest city to take, though the walls were wooden when I attacked and so it was easier. But the garrison... is tough!

I suggest to anyone though, unless you want to fight greeks/macedonians for the rest of your campaign, to attack them early on. Take the southern peninsula (sparta, athens etc) and hold them. This will help slow down their expansion.

[Alatar]

Took sicily with one before, greece is the new Challenge. I say underbelly as a term for position with Greece, I don't expect Sparta to be a cake walk, although when I did take Syracuse and the army sally, which was mostly Spartans, I did find them not all that.

I did the same as you, attacked sparta and corith with one legion stopping reinforcements heading south.
One there retrained I'll have four vetren legions in the south of greece, I'll then head north, while slowly expanding in the south of gaul.
Once greece is done, I'm sending the legions to carthage.

[^Gr8^Xander]

Sparta didn't have any walls...

Maybe something for a next release?


BTW, I took Syracuse, Carthage and that town at Corsica. Now I'm sieging some cities in Macedonia.
And my Legions are rampaging trough Gaul, on their way to Spain to take controll of the mines over there.

[Garnier]

In the game, sparta starts with no walls, but they can build them. It just takes time.

[Funnage]

Took sicily with one before, greece is the new Challenge. I say underbelly as a term for position with Greece, I don't expect Sparta to be a cake walk, although when I did take Syracuse and the army sally, which was mostly Spartans, I did find them not all that.

Boy, if only I knew what facing an entire stack of Spartans was like I would have decided on sending two legions instead of one... I was lucky I switched out my hastati with Spartans, but I just barely won the battle of Sparta.

New rule:
Always attack with two legions.

[Legionary Titus Pullo]

didnt sparta have a wooden wall ?

[GaussSoldier]

No. Their warrior's training was enough to defend the city if it came under attack. The other Greek cities were surrounded by wooden and stone walls.