The city is built on a hillside, three to four hundred feet above the plain, making planning a siege difficult. But there is more even ground on the west side – although it is guarded by a tower and the walls are highest and thickest here.  To cut off all resources to the city, you establish lines of circumvallation – ditches and tower fortifications that function as a blockade – around the entire city. Your siege has begun. What strategy do you wish to employ?

• Concentrate your whole attack on the more even west side by building wooden siege towers and battering rams to the Saguntine walls.
• Send axe pickers to undermine the walls under the cover of vineae, movable shelters made of stout wattling and leather.
• Recognizing the strength of the city, abandon the siege and return to conquest of Spain. In this way you can grow your numbers and resources to again lay siege to Saguntum at a later date. 
• Concentrate your whole attack around the entire city by building wooden siege towers and battering rams to the Saguntine walls.