The warmth of the command tent is briefly shaken as a legionnaire slips through the flap.
"Sir, Tribunus Kai, Reporting. The Legions from all corners of the empire have been assembled, we march on your command."
The Report:
As with the last report, we have a large number of barbarians appeared in the first few turns of this set. Rather then regale you with stories of our glorious victory, I'll just say that we smashed them all with no losses to our units. Just lots of xp for our troops
More on the military front later.
On the domestic front, we completed our pasture for the pigs in 925BC, and I started working that tile so Cumae could grow and produce an army faster.
In 875BC Hammarabi approached us for an open borders agreement. I declined the request, as I could see no advantage to us at this time.
We received a great scientist in Rome on in 825BC. I built and academy in Rome with that scientist to maximize our science.
A few turns later (675BC) Our monument was complete in Neapolis, and more importantly Iron was connected up.
I immediately set the empire to start to build Praetorians.
The next turn Rome and Neapolis both whipped 2 pop to rush their praetorians.
At 600BC the first of our Praetorians arrived, and a call was sent out to gather all Axemen and legions at a gathering point just out of Hannibal's sight. I also set our engineers to work building the connecting roads to quickly arrive move our army into his territory.
575BC: from the overflow that the whipping gave we generated another Axeman in Rome and workboat in Antium. The Axeman was sent to the gathering point, and the workboat jumped on the fish near Antium.
We also got some bad news this turn.
From that point on, it was just a matter of assembling the army and putting ourselves into Position for a massive attack.
Shown below is our attack force.
A few notes on the campaign.... I have not declared war yet; I leave that up to the next group of turns...
Here is a map of Hannibal's lands.
You will note a few things.
1) I was asleep at the switch. Hannibal hooked up iron 4 turns ago, Thus the reason for the lone axeman who is up there. He should be able to raze the mine the first second turn of the war.
But we may have to face a couple of enemy axemen...
2) There is a new city for us to address. Looks new and not to well defended.
3) Yes I stripped all of our attack units from our main cities, but then all those cities are building Praetorians and should be able to whip them out soon. So I'm not too concerned that something will hit us while we are low on defense.
Anyway here is the save.
War has never been my strongest point in the game, so if anyone has any suggestions of what could have been done better I would be more then happy to listen.
on MM to time research with the arrival of the settler
Not sure why as at higher levels over expanding can damage your economy badly and as we assimilate Hannibal Courthouses will be useful. Confucianism hasnt been founded yet so with the Beakers in Aesthetics we would have had a good chance of snagging it ( may well not get it now). Aesthetics is a good tech but we cant really leverage it for quite a while unless an AI researches Alphabet and is prepared to trade it. 
