go for naissos tylis first and get the orcas from singidinum control the mines in dalminion and you´ll have an economy strong enough to suport a proper army

getai have the 2nd best rooster in the entire game wich combined with the trakians and celtic units makes the an extremly versatile and strong faction (they even have horse archers ffs ) oh right they can also take olbia build a type4 there and have acess to the step by step faction rooster