Too Powerful past 250B.C.

[Tuuvi]

Play Pontus.

He has a point. The funnest campaign I ever played was as pontus in 0.74. I had like three or four provinces and was at war with Epieros who controlled most of the Hellenes and more. The only thing that saved me was I had gotten the Suelekids to be my protectorate and that Byzantion had a stone wall. It was hard but it was intense and exciting

[Bumblebee]

My Roman exploits usually were driven in surges of wealth and depletion, following a pattern of conquering an area, developing it, building a warchest, conquering a new area, developing it, building a warchest, conquering a new area, etc.

I was a bit taken aback by how ludicrously rich I was when I initially started playing EB as I tend to play defensively. But if you use your resources to their full potential, you can be very successful.

[KingBobertVII]

Yeah, well i was playing EXTREMELY defensively i guess. I disbanded all my armies and only had fm's as garrisons, and I think I used a unit of Rorarii in Ariminium since i didn't have a FM. Just build economy for 20-25 years after I took Rhegion and Taras and got a ceasefire from Epeiros. At 210 B.C. I only have 2 armies, 1 in Numidia chasing Carthaginians and one in Hispania chasing Carthaginians. You know, if this game had more scripted invasions/Missions/whatnot it would really help alot. I've NEVER seen Romani have any real trouble expanding with AI either. Theyre just too damn rich. But, if they had some more resistance from Carthage, (Scripted Hannibal anyone?) then maybe they would at least not be the inevitable pre-eminent power of the Mediterranean. Carthage was on the fast track to being just as much of a power, before Rome managed to pull out of multiple crises by the skin of her teeth. We could all be speaking a derivative of Punic, were it not for the Battle of the Metaurus, or indeed even the battle of Agrigentum way back in 261.