Yesterday, for the first time, I saw a big, important city get captured by someone of a different culture (other than myself, which means there's never any battles on that map again), which was Carthage. It got taken by some Spanish/Iberian people, Turdetani I think. I'm playing as Epirus, so I had just successfully invaded Italy (playing on very hard and I didn't meet a single Roman legion, not even an agent and yes, I am serious, the Romans are now busy starving on their boats just off Sicily).

Soooo.. I went and wardecced the Spanish people and naval assaulted Carthage aaaand.. Carthage is now some sh*tty barbarian hovel type of town with wooden walls after being converted =P Just like every other coastal town. Kind of interested to see what Rome looks like now after I greekified it

I find the whole idea of people invading towns and then replacing the walls with their preferred type of wall really annoying too to be honest.