Squalor makes RTW challenging.

[DisruptorX]

Congrats DisruptorX, you are successfully recreating the Rise (and eventual Fall) of the Roman Empire.

(There should have been a smiley there DisruptorX. I respect that opinions differ. I want to see how it plays out over many campaigns. To see how it, as I believe it supposed to, curb the player's end game dominance. )

I should have been more specific. I play defensively, with a relatively small power base. I expand in short bursts and then consolidate my power. My conquests are very slow, the only time I ever strike fast and hard is for an early game pre-emptive strike on a foe I know will be a problem later. At least that's what I did in MTW, This new system really hurts my style, because it forces me to be much, much more offensive than I normally am. Its worse with the romans, though, who actually start off with an army they can't suuport.

I don't like micromanaging globe spanning empires, because they collapse. (I once made the mistake of going for total dominance with Egypt. I ended up with all of europe save russia but no one to trade with and a 300 million dollar debt) I would have preferred if your central cities were less affected, like corruption in civ. That said, I'm sure there are ways to minimize problems that I am as of yet unaware of.

I'm not saying the new system is worse (unlike the combat, which actually IS worse). It's just very different from the way I played Medieval. I am unused to constant, unending warfare.