I'm still fighting an Easy/Easy (Yeah, yeah, I'm pussy, sue me. ) as the Selucids. Short game. I've taken over most of what was formerly Eygpt and a few provinces here and there of Armenia, Greeks and Parthia. Pontus remains neutral to me.

I tend to play very defensively. Taking my time, upgrading my tech, only striking when I know for certain I can win. I tend to like to tech up as quickly as possible, then rollover the rest of the factions like so much meat in a grinder. That's just me though. The giant that sleeps for many years, but once awoken, spreads across the land like a plague, devouring everything in it's path.

Occasionally, a faction will do something really, really nasty to provoke me and I will start a blood feud with them. I'll kill every one of the backstabbing bastards until the world is rid of them. The Eygptians made the mistake of doing that.