Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: gdrover

I continue to play regardless. I just don't try to blitz Hannibal to Rome, but rather take the 'normal' approach of:

1) Conquer Cisalpine Gaul
2) Try to draw the Romans into attacking Hannibal with a large army in the open
3) Reinforce Spain and defeat the Romans there
3) Take Genua and Pisa
4) Reinforce Italy with the Spanish army and the forces in Carthage
5) Move the massive army to seige Rome

This tends to work if I can execute it in the Advanced game.

Sometimes the AI player and the Carthaginian Suffet conspire to unhinge this in some way, but it's a good basic plan.