I've started a game with the Spartian/Lakedomian, and I'm a bit disapointed by the way greek factions play. They mainly recruit hopliton and hopliton only, since everyone gets a bunch of money after a few turns (even with the patch). If they don't have access to hopliton, they recruit a bunch of javeliner (akontistes I think) to keep the loyalty at 200%.

With so many enomotia hopliton involved, battles are just plain boring, because the only way to defeat a 1600 hopliton army with a greek faction is to recruit more than 1600 hopliton (I'm speaking about the early age).
It quickly leads to huge battles, with huge armies only composed of enomotia hopliton -E.H- (so far, the biggest battle I've seen was 11000 vs 7000 with a total of 15000 E.H) and without any strategy. Of course, that's more realistic than MTW, where a whole country was only able to recruit a few thousands units, but fighting a battle like that would take a couple of hours.

I think E.H should be less powerful, or at least limited in someway (with a 4 turns recruiting time, or something like that), but that's just my opinion :)

Right now I'm going to have a look at the Persian, who will hopefully be as funny to play as the Thracian.

PS: I hope you'll consider this post as a constructive criticism, and not as a bitching post. I just thought this problem was worth a post