not at all, limit yourself to historic expansion, and role play your generals, in my current romani game it is my most enjoyable campaign to date, its 245 and i have just recently took patavium (i know that's not historically correct but i had to do it as epeiros had it and they were sending stack after stack into italy to siege bononia), think i'll bide my time and wait for the polybian reforms before taking mediolanium and pushing into illyria