Thanks alot everyone! Ive been experimenting around and think ive got the idea of EB and how to play it (upkeep and such). I recently tried a campaign as the Romani and while expansion in italy went fairly quick, i just cant seem to transition well from controlling hoplite-based armies to legions =P.

Ive started a new KH game and am going to take it slow building my economy and using more hoplitai haploi, theyre much more effective than i thought (used to militia hoplites in vanilla hehe)