You might also be able to ferry land armies from Sicily to Africa if you build 2-3 fleets just for the crossing then disband them as Carthage seems reluctant to attack very large groups of fleets. So basically I think it is possible to fight Carthage at sea but it takes a heck of alot of money and tech research and other fronts to remain quiet if Rome only controls a few provinces. Prosecuting the war in the north into Dacia and the Rhone valley as Massilia was defeated in Hispania and under assault in Gaul from numerous Germanic and Celitc tribes Rome eventually first encountered Carthaginian land armies in Narbonensis.
ROME 2 CARTHAGINIAN SAID ROMA INVICTA FULL
The threat of Carthaginian naval attacks kept several Roman legions tied up in Sicily and Sardinia while the Roman armies defeated and scattered at sea on the journey to Corsica were reconsituted and turned against the Ligurians who had conquered Rome's Venetii trade partners.Įmbarking on a large naval spending spree Rome with 2.5 fleets was able to win a few naval victories against Carthage but the expense of maintaining both several Legions and more than 1 fleet nearly led to failure of the treasury when the Ligurian war drew in almost all the Celts and Germans of the Alps and Danube.įorced to disband all but one fleet that seemed to be enough along with a small army in Sardinia and a full Legion in Sicily to keep Carthage from attacking southern Italy. With a small naval escort 4 legions in Sicily embarked to Karalis and were apparently enough of a threat Carthage left them alone for the crossing. The campaign in Sicily went easily but the fleets sent to Corscia were surprised to find themselves in range of Carthaginian fleets in N Africa and were nearly wiped out. With no other clear threats and Rome's friend Massalia expanding into Hispania and getting into war vs Carthage it seemed ideal time for Rome to force Carthage out of Sicily while sailing from Rome to Corsica and thence to Sardinia. Sicily had been allied with Epirus and stuck in a war vs Sparta while also fighting Rome so a DoW vs Sparta to improve both Sicily and Oddrysian Kingdom diplomacy (those Thracians became a Roman client kingdom after being defeated in Illyria) led to peace with Sicily and eventually Carthage canceled trade (which was thousands income). My campaign started with securing Italy and then Illyria where my trade partners were conquered by Thracians. What do I do here? Should I slog it out and try and go for Carthage? Try and bait and switch and hope they leave Karalis undefended long enough for me to take it and knock one of their fleets out? March my armies all the way back up to Rome and go for Corsica instead? And in general, how is Rome supposed to beat the Carthaginian navy? Man, now I understand what they must have felt like in the First Punic War. I've been trying to figure out a way to strike from Sicily to knock out one of their cities with minimal chance for them to intercept my forces, so I was figuring going to either Karalis or Carthage itself from Akragas, but my movement range is just short enough that my men are left on the open ocean like a mile off of the coast, and every time I end the turn three Carthaginian fleets descend on my invasion force. I've got naval tech up so that I have triremes and firepot biremes, but I can only afford one full navy of 20 ships, whereas Carthage has a solid 3-4 full navies. I've been fighting Carthage for eight ingame years (so around 30 turns) and currently have taken all of Sicily from them, but the problem is, I have no clue where to expand to next - mostly because the Carthaginian navy is absolutely massive. I turtled until around 260, built myself up, took all of Italy, and then Carthage attacked me because I had treaties with Syracuse. So I started a Rome II/DEI campaign as Rome and am currently in the 250s BC.
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