http://www.variantbank.org/articles/openings_ancient_med.htm
http://www.variantbank.org/articles/strategies_ancient_med.htm

sorry dont know yet? Was just after generic info really. Once i know I will let you know

Greece is weakest since he lacks a "corner" position, but he has diplomatic advantages in that he can make any player stronger or weaker. Each nation works best with a neighbor and not someone across the board. Do not trust Carthage nor Rome to honor any kind of DMZ in the med. They have to go to Punic sea and Tyrrhenian sea in year 1 to prevent loss of position.

Try to get the other 4 nations warring with each other and then pick sides

As Ancient Med is basically set up as a circle with the med at the middle, each country has only two primary neighbors to worry about. There can be some cutting across, but it rarely happens. Your best bet is to make a faithful neighbor, and focus outwards in the other direction. Just leave two forces back to guard your flank in case they start feeling stabbity.

I disagree. As it said in the varientbank site, get the other two powers opposite to you to ally, and then work with them to crush one neighbor at a time. It works wonderfully well.

So, ex. If you are Rome, get a strong Egypt-Persia alliance going. Carthage and greece will focus east and you can "help" one of them (really just moving your units into a better position to stab) while attacking the other. When one dies, your "helping" units will turn on the other

@GeorgeStephanis: I agree completely. The circle is the key, with all that it implies.

When in doubt, build a fleet

If it helps, here is a mini-EOG from the one Ancient game I have managed to win:

I was Carthage, and swiftly made an alliance with Egypt, giving up Leptis in exchange for a series of bounces and DMZs. This left me with Rome as my only neighbor, and I somehow managed to convince him that the two of us and Egypt could be a "triple" and dominate the board. I started sending fleets toward the center and armies around the perimeter to "support" him.

Meanwhile, _everyone_ attacked Greece. He reached out to me for help, and I agreed to distract Rome when I had the opportunity.

The stab ended up working far better than I expected, and Rome completely collapsed. Greece got minimal gains, however, due to barely holding off Egypt and Persia. I began moving armies around Greece, with Greece thinking I was coming to his aid and the other two thinking I was coming to _their_ aid.

Persia was on the verge of a major breakthrough in Greece, and was getting overconfident. So, I talked him into stabbing Egypt and splitting the world two ways. He bought this, and the furious Egyptians threw everything at him. This gave me the opening I needed, and I stabbed Egypt and Greece more or less simultaneously for the win.

A word of advice for Persian players: if you want to fight Egypt, build fleets! Persia in this game had twice the supply centers that Egypt did when he stabbed him, but was woefully short on fleets and completely stalemated.

@Tasnica, both Ancient Med games I have played (one solo, one could have soloed), I did exceedingly well for the very reasons you described. Make alliances with both neighbors, work with both, then stab one. Rinse and repeat across the board. =)

It works pretty well in Classic, too. ;)

Particularly with countries like Germany and France that have two "traditional" neutral builds in 1901.