Rome is Won, What Carthage does now the Romans are Really Annoyed! Rome Total War 2, April 2023

The assault on Rome uses sapping to collapse several wall sections before missile troops, infantry, and cavalry exploit the openings.

A brief warning against taking Roman descriptions of opposing peoples at face value introduces a useful rule of ancient source criticism.

A cavalry attack illustrates that spearmen can resist a mounted threat from the front yet become vulnerable once they are surrounded.

Repeated enemy failures to occupy a hill let Carthaginian cavalry and infantry begin their attacks from the stronger position.

Missing high-end infantry and archers show how a faction roster can impose artificial weaknesses on a historically more varied Carthaginian army.

A criticism of settlement caps becomes an explanation of how supply and sanitation, rather than intellectual capacity, governed urban growth.

The campaign's scattered fronts prompt a concise distinction between dispersing forces for movement and concentrating them for combat.

Repeated attacks on exposed generals show the value of disrupting command and morale, while the game's rapid routs require a realism caveat.

The campaign targets the stronger Roman naval faction first, then values control of both ends of a trade route and access to another port.

An uneven mobile-alert test prompts a discussion of siren removal, false-message risks, and the value of retaining more than one warning channel.

A city defense shows how walls, restricted approaches, infantry, and cavalry can combine to funnel a missile-heavy attacker into a kill zone.

A winnable battle is declined because the expected losses would be harder to replace than the cost of waiting through a siege.

A force-composition comparison contrasts Roman infantry's pre-charge missiles with cavalry as a stronger arm of the Carthaginian army.

A close look at the unit models connects Phoenician infantry with hoplite-style shields, spears, sidearms, and solid line service.

The familiar image of Nero fiddling while Rome burns is treated as an allegorical story whose cultural life exceeds its evidential certainty.

A gameplay complaint becomes a correction: historical Carthage fielded large, capable warships beyond the triremes available in Rome: Total War.

Rome's ability to copy and improve what it captured is framed as a source of imperial strength rather than a sign of weakness.

After a series of defensive victories, protecting existing territory has displaced the offensive action required by the campaign objective.

Britain would reinforce Canada and likely use amphibious raids; breaking the Union blockade could restore Confederate trade and supplies, changing the war's balance.

Only an urgent mission, such as disrupting the Formosa invasion, or powerful torpedoes could justify it; light guns alone left the cruisers badly mismatched.

The closing campaign plan links territorial consolidation, technological rivalry, revenue, defensive economy, and attacking an opponent along its weaker axis.