About to play first mod

[Ca Putt]

Welcome Madoushi :)

I have to agree with Mulceber about romans being not always the best choice for a new player. as romani you are somewhat reliant on your reforms as they give you access to your factional troops for entire italy and beyond. thus it may be of use to first establish lvl 3 or 4 govs and tare them down later to replace them with lvl 1 or 2 (which si somethig many people do for roleplay reasons btw) to access regional troops early on and factional troops when they get available. plus lvl 1 also enables all of your neat and civilised buildings of highest level.

what about your finances are they over the top or just enough to keep the war efford up?

if you plan on switching in near future(thus before the reforms are supposed to happen) and still fear to be overrun by vast armies of the arche seleukeia or to have practically no infrastructure you could try one of the Greek factions(thus Koinon Hellenon, Macedonia and Epeiros) who are quite easy(that is economically) once you live through the first few years and expell one or both others from the greek peninsula.
when you're good with your finances you could consider one of the "barbarian" or even nomad factions.