I'm one who likes to build up my cities & amass overwhelming troops before initiating battle. I'm still in my first campaign, playing as Scipii on Normal/Normal, & I've had very little trouble with being attacked from all sides.
My methods has produced a couple of problems, however. My large numbers of troops have lead to a lack of money & stagnation of population. That's not really a complaint--in reality the maintenance of such huge garrisons would do the same thing.
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