Originally Posted by ArtistofWarfare
True brings up a good point regarding populations...
Indeed- Constantinople, Rome, Carthage and Egypt provinces (among others) cannot have 25,000 people living in them 100+ years into the campaign. It's just silly, and I don't see any reason for it.
We're just talking about a number. I don't see why in the first RTW they specifically made it as fictional as possible. No difference between showing 25,000 or 2.5 million in my mind except that one makes sense and is historically accurate, and the other one just doesn't have even one reason for it's existence.