I couldn't agree more. But we would definetly need to find a way to make the game harder for Rome, we would need to find a way for Rome to have at least some sort of civil strugle, perhaps even by devoting a "rebel" Roman faction, since it was all about Rome and it's civil wars at this time. We could make the transition to Principate a drastic one, one that's only possible if a certain character arises, who crushes the rebellions...

At the begining i was all for a principate mod, but almost no help would arise. This way I could still work on that + the late republic which is my second most interesting part of Roman history. I'm also willing to put a lot of work to this project, since i can't stand to do sth. that i can't stand behind it and argument.