You send in axe pickers to undermine the walls under the cover of vineae, movable shelters made of stout wattling and leather. This effort proves to be most unfruitful as Saguntum is built entirely upon a slab of rock and there is no earth beneath the walls to undermine. And by putting your troops near the walls in the danger, you suffer heavy losses.

• Concentrate your whole attack on the more even west side by building wooden siege towers and battering rams to the Saguntine walls.     
• Concentrate your whole attack around the entire city by building wooden siege towers and battering rams to the Saguntine walls.