Had one odd campaign with the KH, I concentrated first on Asia Minor and then turned westwards towards Epeiros. After I quickly routed all of the Epeirote home lands they only had a (strong) base in South Italy left (Rhegion and Taras). I prepared a large scale naval invasion and was surprised when after my invasion I sent ahead some spies who detected that Epeiros by now had taken Messana, Syrakousai, Arpi, Capua(!) and Rome(!!!). I have not the slightest idea how they could have managed that, SPQR had conquered all of Northern Italy including Segestica, Massalia, Tolosa and Emporion.
Several years before I already had allied with SPQR to force a two-front war upon Epeiros, which worked quite good.


Well, on the other hand, Epeiros had not much left of big armys so I rather quickly could crush their garrisons and occupy their lands (holding Asia Minor and the Aegaeis makes you an economic superpower...all mercs to me!) and finally conquered Rome, vanishing Epeiros.

Another interesting thing: The alliance with the SPQR which already lasted about 10 years (though we shared common borders, Segestica-Dalminion) still lasted another 15 years where SPQR mainly expanded north- and westwards and only when about five or six full stack armies had cumulated at our Italian border (you think I would return Rome to my allies? Ha, think again ) when they marched simultaneously on Rome and Arpi, shortly followed by another two stacks marching towards Dalminion.

Playing with win_conditions-mod and playing on "Hard" campaign difficulty seems to help the AI sanity in Bi.exe a lot