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Last turn plenty of War Elephants appeared in Sardinia next to a city that could not be reinforced. The troops from the city were loaded into a galley on the east side of the island and the city abandoned.

However with war elephants in the north we had an opportunity that we could not pass. An army, catapults and several Legions(III) made the journey to outside of Carthage onto the hill. The Great Library being very useful in this situation.

Hopefully next turn we will be victorious although I still need to watch out for about 10 War Elephants which could reload and move east potentially to attack Rome. We will partially reinforce Sicily and try to keep Rome protected by more than the 3 units at present. Perhaps I should try doing something clever with galleys rather than this strategy of using the biggest hammer to hit the largest target.

Carthage fell after 3 units were defeated for no casualties. We will rest a couple of turns and see where Matrix's stack of War Elephants goes.

Dude. That really hurts him.

We want screenshots. Well, I do. Please?

If anyone is wondering the first post is meant to say that the great Lighthouse was very useful rather than library since it gave me the extra ship movement point to reach the hill tile outside of Carthage.

Btw Matrix lost two War Elephants and a heavy cavalry unit attacking my army on his turn so the hill was very valuable considering that the army only lost 3 hit points.

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The stack is on the move again going west to attack in 3 turns. Pretty much the same as that stack but the army will move on the next turn rather than this one.

The fleet of ships in the above diagram moved north. On the last turn I blocked every possible landing square whilst making sure that I would build two new ships in the north. His fleet of 3 ships moved next to Rome where I was able to sink 2 out of the 3 ships on my next turn. Potentially he can land 4 units near my cities but I should be able to destroy any landing party unless I have some pretty bad luck.

Oddly a Heavy Cavalry revealed 4 elephants next to the Celt city on the map so I've got a few troops on the border and will check each turn as to whether he has more units there. Will try to add another screenshot next turn but this was a good turn as I may have sunk 8 units with those two galleys.

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Matrix suprised me as I didn't realise that units could land on a square occupied by a catapult. Fortunately I had lots of units around and pushed him back into the sea. I keep on watching him build up an attack force in the north and will respond by doing the same. In two turns we will see whether Matrix can stop my attack force or whether he will start raising his cities.

Second attack successful with that city falling. Settled a new city inbetween that city and Carthage on the coast.

This turn we took the city directly to the south with one HC against a Spearmen.

We will probably continue to push west although at some point we will need to take Thenae.

Another city fell this turn to my army.

Nearly attacked this turn but decided to wait another turn for my army to fully heal and about 4 more legions to be ready to move. Don't want to be caught out now when victory is close.

This time the stack moved to attack Icosium. Basically I waited an exra turn so that I would have several extra elite Legions.

Apparently Matrix lost 3 units attacking a legion that was on a hill and attacking my army which had healed by the time the turn got to me. The only combat was taking a worker on a mountain in the east and disbanding it since if the road was completed he could have sent lots of HCs over the top. I now have some warning if this occurs.