Tactics are used in a way so that one country can be triumphal over another country or surrounding city-states. Throughout time many different tactics have been used in battles and wars. Each different country needs a different plan of attack. A leader must look at what a country’s weaknesses and strengths are and decide from there. The tactics that our group had were very similar to what had happened in the start of the Roman Empire. The building up of alliances is very important in that it helps build manpower for your armies. Rome slowly began to build up their alliances by offering citizenship to the surrounding Latin cities.