What now?

[StGene]

I'm playing as the Julii (Vanilla, M/M), and I was stuck with a two-front war with Gaul and Macedonia. The Gauls kept besieging Mediolanium, and the Macedonians kept sending fullstacks of pikemen and light cavalry to besiege Patavium (or something). I've lost and recaptured Mediolanium about three times, and my two fullstack "legions" took turns routing the Macedonians and retraining at Arrentium. Then, I finally made peace with them after routing at least six fullstacks and the Brutii capturing Apollonia. The question I put to you, gentlemen, is "What should I do now?" My allies, the Britons, have capture much of Gaul, leaving the Gauls severely weakened. Should I attack them, or should save up my money, send every diplomat I have down the Italian peninsula, bribing every Roman army they see, then conquer Italy?

[Blatta Optima Maxima]

No way can you start the civil war while still in Italy. Conquer everything you can. Build up economy.

[Hopit]

No way can you start the civil war while still in Italy. Conquer everything you can. Build up economy.

its more challengin and fun wihtout economy

[Stu.]

I'm playing as the Julii (Vanilla, M/M), and I was stuck with a two-front war with Gaul and Macedonia. The Gauls kept besieging Mediolanium, and the Macedonians kept sending fullstacks of pikemen and light cavalry to besiege Patavium (or something). I've lost and recaptured Mediolanium about three times, and my two fullstack "legions" took turns routing the Macedonians and retraining at Arrentium. Then, I finally made peace with them after routing at least six fullstacks and the Brutii capturing Apollonia. The question I put to you, gentlemen, is "What should I do now?" My allies, the Britons, have capture much of Gaul, leaving the Gauls severely weakened. Should I attack them, or should save up my money, send every diplomat I have down the Italian peninsula, bribing every Roman army they see, then conquer Italy?

You're stuck in Italy on M/M? :/ If you don't advance and conquer cities and weaken factions then the game is just going to get steadily harder. Ive never experience that many macedonian stacks while playing as Julii though, even on H/H.

[Makus]

Mediolanium gave me gaul problems aswell. build up an army, march west, and hit their nearest city. seems to slow down their attacks.
Macedonia should be the brutii's problem, but beating them is a matter of fixing and flanking....and archers. archers love the screw up phalanxes. they rout easily so bring some light cav to cut them down before they cna regroup..and to take care of them peltasts. At this point what you may want to do is slowly start building up and army and take corinth. should distract macedon, and on M/M maybe send a few of their cities into revolt (on lower difficulties the AI has problems with keeping the peace, and taking the happiness wonder may weaken macedon).
If you can build up a stone wall on patavium your macedon problem should be laughable. phalanxes suck at fighting on walls and if you allow them to enter your gate they are easily surrounded and crushed.
As for britons...they can get far too powerful, but seem to stay out of italy. They also have decent quantities of hevay infantry. my suggestion is waiting until the marius reforms/until you have legionary cohorts and send an army of legionary cohorts and archer auxilia, as well as some spear-throwing units (to deal with chariots) and engage them in the open fields.

[StGene]

Yeah...I was all ready to send my two fullstack legions tearing into Gaul, then the Marian reforms happened, my legates died, and the biggest Gallic army ever to invade Northern Italy marched past my watchtowers and towards Mediolanium. Jesus...

Anyway, build a proper legion, obliterate Gaul, then Spain, then Britain. Gotcha.

[StealthEvo]

Nah. Go for Macedon instead.

[StGene]

Well, now I'm fvcked. While I was modernizing half my army, the Macedonians declared war again and captured Patavium, the Gauls captured Mediolanum. The Julii family have a grand total of 12 living members including women and children, and three of them are adult males. QQ

Edit: And Segasta rebelled.

[geyserik]

I would try and make peace with gaul and attack the greeks.Try to use gaul as a buffer against the britts because the britts will always turn on the romans quickly and for no reason.