Balance and predictability?

[Medieval Assassin]

Germans, and egypt always seem to spread and dominate, early, of course I always win in the end...j/k I havent finished a campain yet, in my Jullii one, the germans have taken most of the russian area, and egypt dominates the south, I own spain and lower europe.

[Belenus]

What game am I playing? The brutii ans scipii have stagnated in my game while I have exploded up north, destroying all in my path! I don't know what's going on everywhere else, my diplomats are still bribing enemy armies in the north.

[Colovion]

If Carthage and Rome were the hard nuts in teh game that would be interesting to see who are the other strong factions.

[sapi]

It depends on who you are playing as - if you are the brutii then the greeks will be soundly defeated, while it's easy to defeat all of rome as the greeks.

If you were the Seleucids (are they playable?) you could probably stop the egyptian advance.....

[Magraev]

As the seleucids you're gonna have to!

Another funny thing I've noticed is regarding Sicily. Historically Rome didn't get Syracuse off greek hands before 231bc (I believe). I've yet to see a game where it's still greek at 270... The one exception was where I played carthage and allied with the greeks to help them out.