Poll: scale the difficulty of each campaign

[Mulceber]

There's no way AS is easier than the Romani, Kart-Hadast, or Ptolies.

I can't speak for the Ptolemies, but AS is definitely easier than Kart-Hadast and Rome. Rome, as I mentioned earlier, is made difficult by the fact that you have a LOT of land to conquer and it becomes quite difficult to ferry your troops back and forth half-way across the map to retrain them. Kart-Hadast suffers, I think, from the fact that its troops aren't quite as robust as those of Rome (at least in my opinion). For the AS, if you can handle the issues of the first 20 turns, it becomes a cake-walk. That's why I think it's easy. It may be difficult in the first few years, but once you stabilize the economy, AS has a large population, a large stream of revenue, the most diverse troops of the game and some of the most powerful troops of the game. In short, it's a powerhouse. Rome and Kart-Hadast, by comparison, are easy in the first decade or so, but then become significantly more difficult once you start running into enemies overseas. -M