(This is why you NEED non aggression pacts with Masaesyli, Cyrenaica, and Nasamones, because Garamatia will refuse non-agression and they have no-one to logically attack but you). Once you conquer Libya, expect Garamatia to declare war on you soon. Make sure your small army from Qart Hadesh is moving every turn in forced march to reinforce Carthago After that research all of construction tier 1, followed by the heavy-inf military tier (to heavy inf barracks III) After you've researched diplomacy 1, recruit a diplomat and then research military 1. Build a barracks and military wharf in Carthago when the war with Libya is almost over. With the ele's and jav spam you can stomp Libya without heavy inf and with minimal losses (you NEED your army to win every battle lopsided so you can have Africa controlled by turn 9 max). Then on the next turn, move out towards the next city (takes 2 turns to move from city to city in Africa province). When you cap a city, build 3 more cheap inf with your main army. Use your army, navy, and your elephant to take the Libyan cities as quickly as possible. If this happens then you can just steal it right back and now you have lumber to trade! It is worth more than the client-state relationship in the long run because Nova Carthago usually dies early anyways. If Masaesyli (your light blue neighbor in the south) declares war on Nova Carthago at any time - abandon Nova Carthago and hope the Masaesyli capture the city of iol. If Gaetuli or any Iberian factions declare war on Nova Carthago, keep them as a client. You CAN'T afford a war with more than 1 African faction at a time. Try and make non-aggression pacts with Nasamones and Masaesyli if you can, pay for it (500-1000) if you have to. In each battle hire 1 or 2 cheap mercs to just fight first and die so your cheap regular troops stay alive long term (mercs are cheap if you don't let them survive the battle - no upkeep!). Be conservative, use all your skirmish ammo before going into hand to hand combat. In this battle and all battles, fight it yourself to save troops. Use your army, navy, and elephant general (in forced march) to attack and occupy the Libyan city of Thapsus. With your original general, hire 1 Baeleric Slinger and 1 Italian swordsman. Send your army at Qart Hadesh back to Carthago via the ocean, delete the 2 merc swords in that army Move your fleet (in forced march) south to the Libyan border, build 2-3 jav raiders Move your orignial gen to the Libyan border, build 3 Libyan Javs Research Civil tech 1 and then Diplomacy 1 (so you can make a diplomat on turn 4) Keep your client treaty with Nova Carthago Get a non aggression pact with Cyrenaica Get a non aggression pact with Cessetani CHOOSE HANNANOID DYNASTY for the diplomatic bonus, you'll need it to prevent a world war against you. If you can defeat Libya by then you will end up with positive income You will have to say goodbye to those holdings in about 8 turns. The rest of your lands (Iberia, Sardinia, Sicily) will slowly turn to rebellion, and sadly you DON'T have the money to afford more than 1 main army right now. The youtuvbe channel "Total War Zone" rates Africa-province as the #4 best province in the game. You won't even have to rebuild the buildings because they are already Punic. Its the only one you can afford to keep because it already has Punic culture. You need the lands of Libya to consolidate the African province. You will be abandoning one ally to save yourself. On turn 1 you need to do some specific things. Strategies to about turn 30 so far.more to come soon! Which factions to attack/keep peace with and why How to get a province under youe control Playing Carthage requires unconventional tactics and alot of underhanded spam, but in Emperor Edition patch 15 it is the only way to survive!!! IN addition the patches from v15 and onwards feature more javelins than ever before - which means the hoplites are weaker by comparison. This is a guide to help players get past Carthage's initial turns and hopefully get a full campaign going. They got nerfed hard by having both libyan inf and pikes removed from barracks I to barracks III (20 turns away). Ive played a few more campaigns (now on hard) and enjoy Carthage alot.Ĭarthage is a hard faction to play on campaign. Added some content to the last section on where to expand.
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