Originally posted by Elfie
When *creeping into Italy* I've found that it's best to leave Rome itself alone until the rest of the Italian cities are under your control. If you take Rome on your way down the Italian peninsula, the Brutii and Scipii factions become very agressive and both attack with large armies repeatedly. This can be devastating if you arent prepared for it by having large garrisons and AT LEAST 2 20 unit armies(Preferably 3 or 4). Bypassing Rome avoids that agression.
In RTR 6.0 Rome is a single faction, so i have the whole might of the Roman Army throwing itself at me. I've managed to relieve my single army with 2 full armies and transfered my leader to one of them, he's awesome at the moment, with 80+ horses with 3 silver chevrons. I just destroyed what i thought was the last of the Roman armies and 2 more have popped up! Is there no end! I've not actually attacked Rome itself but it's in sight, it's fully fortified so i may leave it and quickly gobble up some smaller cities.
Carthage have just attacked my only city in North Africa so i'm now fighting 3 factions at the moment, though the Gauls are no longer any real threat. I'm a bit miffed that Carthage attacked as they were my largest trading partner, i'm starting to make a loss each turn. It shouldn't be a problem as i have about 300k in the bank. Like you i build ecomic buildings first with exception of my first couple of cities for training troops.
My iberian campaign has been great fun so far, it was really tricky at the start being squashed between the gauls and carthage.
