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[[Image:Carthage Generals Bodyguard.jpg|right|thumb|Carthage General's Bodyguard.]]

Carthage are one of the playable factions in [[Rome: Total War]].  They can be played after successfully completing a campaign as a Roman faction or if unlocked by modding / cheats.

==Game Play==
===Starting Position===
At the start of the Imperial Campaign Carthage own the following settlements:
*Carthage
*Lilybaeum
*Thapsus
*Caralis
*Palma
*Corduba

Corduba in Spain is normally soon under threat from the [[Spain (RTW Faction)|Spanish faction]], Caralis tends to receive the attentions of the [[Julii (RTW Faction)|Julii]], Lilybaeum is on Sicily which also has a [[Scipii (RTW Faction)|Scipii]] outpost.  Palma is a useful little island to own as mercenary Balearic Slingers can be recruited there, luckily it is seldom threatened by the AI controlled factions.

===Win Conditions===
For the long campaign victory conditions are ''"become the supreme ruler of Rome and control at least 50 provinces".''

For the short campaign victory conditions are ''"hold 15 provinces and destroy or outlast [[Scipii (RTW Faction)|The House of Scipii]] and [[Spain (RTW Faction)|Spain]]."''

===Units===
Carthage are described as having "a flexible selection of troop types plus powerful elephants."
They are able to recruit some of the same types of units as [[Spain (RTW Faction)|Spain]] and [[Numidia (RTW Faction)|Numidia]], meaning they have some of the best cavalry in the game. However, they suffer from very poor early game infantry, meaning they must rely on cavalry to win early battles. 

====Unique Units====
Unique units include:
*Poeni Infantry, a phalanx, although not quite as good as its Greek equivalents, it can best anything in Carthage's region.

*Sacred Band Infantry, another phalanx, recruited from awesome temples of Baal, they are truly elite troops that can stand and win against many other elites. They are named the sacred band due to Greek writers seeing them fight during a war between Carthage and Syracuse and the units that became the sacred band reminding the writers of the sacred band of Thebes.

*Sacred Band Cavalry, elite heavy cavalrymen, pre-marian reforms, they are the best cavalry available to any faction on the western part of the map.

*Libyan spearmen, a non-phalanx unit of spearmen that is useful for guarding the flanks of a phalanx or as a flanker itself.

===Strategy guides===
*[http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=36866 Carthage] RTW guide on the Guild

===AAR's===
====AAR's for Original Game====

====AAR's for Carthage in Mods====
*[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=100452 Carthage: City of Dreams] by Andronicus - Mod: [[RTRPE]]''
*[[Battle Walkthrough - Rome vs Carthage]] - battle report for [[SPQR Total War]]

==History==

==See Also==
*[[Factions in RTW]]


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[[Category: Rome: Total War Factions]]