well if it was possible to create sub factions inside the eleutheroi maybe just scripting those city´s more cash would enable them to work better i mean syrakuse with a 4.000 mnai earning a turn should put up a decent fight and as for the stacks that always show up now and then they already come with their defenition (illiryan rebels, thracian rebels and so on)

i wonder if it´s possible to create mini economies for each sub faction ...