Well, of course I am the impatient type, and I use the character_reset cheat quite a bit. I actually find Rome and the Sweboz to be boring: The Sweboz have poor provinces, and Rome always attacks me about when I finish off the Aedui, so I usually knock them off early. I do agree that the Aedui are fun to fight, especially in the beginning when you have no money, no reinforcements, and an angry enemy, but in this particular game I beat them at river crossings, where they attacked, so it wasn't anything special.

I actually find the later parts of the Arverni game, consolidating power in modern france and italy, moving into Iberia, scraping out an empire in Anatolia, and moving galatians to attack Greece, and (finally) going across the ocean into North Africa to take on Carthage to be the most fun (or at least my most anticipated moments. I never got to go to Iberia or N. Africa). Unfortunately I realized too late that starting an AAR is easy, continuing it was hard. The day after I just wanted to play as the arverni, but realized I couldn't now that I've started to develop a story. So I started up a campaign as Qarthadast, and saved over my arverni game on accident. I think some day I will retry an AAR, but after I've started replaying campaigns over. The issue here is that I blitzed to get where I was in my first playthrough (which was in about 240-230BC), and afterwards, I didn't want to break from the campaign long enough to write the posts!