While doing some work on a new page for Rome: total war.co.uk I have come across the successor kingdoms, these sprang up after the fall of the Empire of Alexander. My feeling are these will play a major part in the game. These empires controlled the eastern part of the map as Rome was developing.

I have currently only looked at Ptolemaic Egypt. (which I need to mod - as the above page is only a rough draft) The other I will need to look at in turn, but the history of this period and empires is quite interesting. Generals killing heirs to the thrown, other general marrying sisters of the former emperors and then being killed before they get to there new homes and marry....... I feel there is plenty of scope in this area for the game.

However, all these empires were basically Greek city states, so they would fight using a similar style.