Well. I am a bit past halfway through my first sustained campaign (long, h/vh) with the Julii and I am a not nearly as excited as I was in the first 20 turns or so. Fighting the other Roman factions is interesting (thought other observations about the realism of hard and vh in battlle are certainly true--that these settings are not even remotely relative, I mean I've got all post Marius troops while the Ai has pre-Marius type troops and they are holding their own!) . So, what's left?

I've got 30 regions and have all but conquered Rome, while the other Roman factions are restricted totheir original colonies. I've got just about everything on the Latin peninsula and am wondering where's the challenge?

I mean I love the battles while my empire was growing but I sort of expected a much more challenging rise to he top!!!! Is it the faction or am I just to impatient?