I'll tell you what's wrong with this....

[Ludens]

whats recommended anyway? i always play H/M

Hard or very hard campaign (increased A.I. aggressiveness and budget), medium battle.

[Digby Tatham Warter]

Normally I don't have any problem with keeping regions happy, but my huge Seleukid Empire in V1.0 struggled against Roman Italys rebellions, needing one full stack to remain in Italy to crush the rebellions one at a time, almost continually.

[Gleemonex]

I doubt Caligula would have achieved anything even if he had lived to die an old man!

Who knows. All existing sources on him are biased. He could well have been a visionary leader frustrated in dealing with a belligerent senate after 2 years of dutiful leadership, and then tried to take them on without Augustus' charisma or political guile.

He could start out with not naming his horse a consul, for one thing.

It's not that hard to imagine a frustrated, hot-headed young Caligula yelling at his senate subordinates that they're "so useless my horse could make a better senator!". For wily old senators, this would be easy to manipulate into propaganda.

But as I said before, who knows. Theories abound.

-Glee