Very interesting Michael. I'm getting ready to have a three-week project in my Greek class again this spring where students (who have gone through Greek history through the time of Alexander and the start of the successor states) play a campaign and keep detailed records on their (Hellenic) faction's history, then write up a history of their faction in the same format/style as other annalist historians were doing at that time. Even with that much time devoted to it, there was no way I could get through all the different extra historical and cultural elements that we threw in there (how specific the names are, so many different details in the faction specific traits, different building description variations between factions, etc.), especially with each student only playing as one faction.

I think it's particularly great that your prof at Montclair State had you show it off to a civ class of his - my own jaded personal experiences would place EB (and any other similar enterprise) somewhere between bedbugs and chlamydia in the estimation of most classics or ancient history professors.