Everyone knows that playing as the Romani is pretty much a walk over. Once you have all of Italy you're pretty much sorted and can pump out stack after stack of elites to crush any and all factions, hence part of the reason most people choose not to play as them.But I've found a way of playing that makes the game challenging but keeps it fun (and I'm not saying I'm the first to come up with this, just figured I'd post it up for others to see)

As the Romani you can field countless armies of full-stack troops and still have a booming economy. So the thing I do is limit myself to armies of up to 15 units max (and even 15 units is a bit extreme, used in times of need) This way I can field decent armies whilst still keeping away the 'indestructible' factor of my armies. This is the layout of my armies:

-1 General
-1 cavalry of choice (I go for campanian)
-1 triarii
-2 Hastati (up to three with the arrival of 2 carthiginian stacks on sicily)
-2 Principes ("" "")
-2 leves

And those are the core of the army. The final units are composed of allied units. At the moment mine are...

-Samnite spearmen
-Bruttian infantry
-Heavy Peltastai

And that's that. Altogether that's an army of 12 units, 14 with the Sicilian campaign, not exactly an unstoppable force and I've even lost a battle () with it, which, considering I'm yet to take on major factions, is quite an achievement. All the same, the aforementioned 2 Carthiginian stacks on sicily were a pain to deal with, and it's taken me up to 242 BC to conquer all of modern day Italy as well as Cosica and Segestica and Dalminion, and I've also taken Emporion and Massalia in a bid to get to Spain.

Overall I think that this shows that playing as the Romani can be a fun challenge and doesn't simply have to be a boring ordeal of sending full stacks of Elites out to purge the entire known world. Feel free to give this army composition a try or mix it up a little if you want. Variety is the spice of life after all