Heres my Macedonian empire at 260 BC. On VH/H with BI.exe and darth formations. Lucked out in the beginning, as KH mysteriously did not attack Corinth, but waited just outside it waiting to ambush, and sent their troops from Athens to attack my main army nearby which was easily destroyed, and then it was just a matter of taking Athens and then striking at Sparta. Got both within 5 turns. Epirus also strangely only attacked Pellas with a little stack which I destroyed due to using my 5000 denari and of a building or 2 to get me a unit of mercenary heavy peltasts and phalanx to defend the city. Then I took my original half stack to attack Epirus who had captured a city in Illyria, and got to fight several epic battles with the 4 stacks they had before I secured their possessions. Now im at peace with them and they are having a 3 way Battle Royale with Rome and Carthage, with Rhegion changing hands every turn and none of the 3 getting the upperhand. Due to the fact of having relegated my two initial enemies to Rhodes and Tarantino respectively it was now a matter of getting another half stack to take a few cities in Thracia. I then sent a small stack with an FM to take Syracuse while taking my original main stack to attack Pergamon. At this point I am at peace with everyone, have no enemies although Pontos is about to take Byzantium and Getai are dangerously close. After I take Pergamon I'm going to take last rebel city in Greece, as well as Crete and finally add some better units to my two stacks. I have loads of money now, and after I consolidate what I have, am going to simultaneously strike at both AS and the Ptolys to prevent either from getting strong, especially as AS has Baktria, Pahlava and Saka Rauka on the ropes, while egypt is gaining the upper hand in the Levant. On a weird side note, Aedui is turning into a serious powerhouse due to the lack of attention by Rome and are about to finish off the Arverni, who also got Galatia after a rebellion from AS. All in all im in excellent position to dominate.