Guys, he is a Newcomer, Haysdan is the only campaign I have ever had to restart and Saba is the only one Fluvius has. Those two and Pontos are perhaps the most difficult ones and you guys ask a guy who got kicked in the much- much easier Roman campaign to try it...

Not very fair on him. Let him get some experience first, we all had to in order to suceed in the difficult factions.