I had a bunch of time between classes earlier today and was bored so I looked over the beginning of my AAR and the good old days of Demetrios. I sure made big chapters back then but ironically posted them more often. One thing I had forgotten was just how much territory I had gained during the reign of Aristotelis, nearly as much as I gained under Demetrios. Too bad Aristotelis went crazy in his old age.

The units at the top of the last page are something I'm working on to make a non-Hellene regional Thorakitai. I wanted to make an eastern version that had scale and a western romano-keltic version. I was thinking of having some kind of reform down the road to have state supplied troops to troops along the line of the Marian reforms, at which point foreign troops will join the ranks of the Thorakitai as auxilaries.

I would have more trouble of defending my borders if the AI did a better job of attacking. They'll send just enough troops to win a auto_calc battle, but not anything played out, while they have tons of reinforcements just out of range to help. The Getic Confederation and the Gauls are still my friends, but other than that I've been almost completely turned against. I should just take out the small fries and concentrate on the big ones. The problem is that I'm having trouble adressing anything at all when it all happens at once. It is kind of fun since it is a challenge, though I'm still clearly winning on all fronts.