A suggestion for EB II.

Sometimes it seems the Eleutheroi are too easy to conquer, whereas in reality/history it was much more difficult and time consuming. One reason, it seems, is that when an Eleutheroi city is attacked / besieged, but the attack is unsuccessful, they are very slow to retrain their units or recruit new units. It may also be that they have too few troops in their cities and/or they are too unwilling to attack the factions.

Could they be made stronger? I know that will lengthen the game but it may be even more of a challenge and even more realistic as a result.

Not sure what others think about this.

And don't get me wrong - I think EB is great.