With these event in motion back in Rome, you are drawing your battle plans. 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.
• Concentrate your whole attack around the entire city by building wooden siege towers and battering rams to the Saguntine walls.