Twitter discussion

[Cyclops]

Loving the progress, very enticing I must say.

The view of Roma was interesting and raised a question in my mind about port sizes.

IIRC in EB Rome could build to the largest port size, but I had a silly notion Ostia was rebuilt into a massive complex in the early Imperial period (sadly I recall this from I, Claudius and not my years of Classical history and Archaeology), after EB's timeframe, and previously it'd been a smaller affair.

Obviously Ostia was suitable to late Republican Rome's needs but my impression was it wasn't a naval hub like Carthage or Alexandria in the EB period.

I guess the explanation could be the historical "player" chose not to build the large port before 14 AD but the EB player has the choice to do so.