Post your EB empires!

[Africanus]

Or you could do it in the historical way, and lose them in a catastrophic defeat (as Caepio did at Arausio).

Blasphemy!

This part of the AI is bugged, like many other parts of it, but it works even on vanilla. I halved the costs of all ships and now the AI builds many fleets. In my current Casse campaign the Qarthadastim sended reinforcements to sicily and iberia, they only stopped after they captured all of Italy up to the po valley, lost it all to rebellion (with some help of mine) except Lilybeo and now again sended many fullstacks to Sicily and recaptured the island. The KH also has 2 fleets and brought 3 stacks to Sicily to help Syracuse, now they sail 2 half stacks back to anatolia after they have lost Sicily and Rhegion. Sometimes the AI works very well...

How far along are you? I was getting lots of naval invasions early in the campaign, and the KH even had remnants of two fleets fairly late, but they just sat parked outside of Antioch before I suppose pirates took them out. At least I should get a good battle when I get around to taking Crete!

More frustrating is the Casse doing absolutely nothing the whole game, even after I gifted them some settlements in Gaul.