Now that I can finally build the large war elephant (the one with 36 or 37 units not the starting smaller one with 12 units) Rome is no more, big deal. Way to easy, all Africa, except Egypt, and modern Italy are mine. There´s only one Brutii city left next to Athens. The Senate, the Julii and the Scipii are all gonners. I've played Carthage on the hard/hard and found it extremely easy. I doubt this game will have a long replayability no matter how good it is in the beginning. I conquered Athens, exterminating, and it still gave 4,000 gold per turn (I had the Great Wonder The Colossus up 40% sea commerce). When taking over large cities it's best to exterminate them. The sixth time I exterminated the population and I've never had problems since. I only occupied in my first game and a gaul city, to put an example, flipped back five times to the Gauls. This allows me to move easily from city to city conquering them. Plus when taking over cities of 30,000 people you cannot enslave them, because your home cities tend to get filled with squalor which leads to unrest and unhapiness due to all the the filth.
Later on in the mid-game I always exterminate them to get all that juicy cash. At the start of the game I enslave them so as to increase population in my home cities quickly, plus I get some income.
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