I love this game, but what about its historical side?

[Colovion]

games which must be played in a linear fashion are boring

I finish the game before 200BC every time - the game would be pretty getting the "you can't expand to Africa, wait another 80 turns"

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I agree that history is nice but there is a time and a place, and sometimes games need to skimp on history to allow for gameplay. I think what you want is a movie or documentary, because games are meant to allow us to enjoy changing history; creating an empire of pagan Britons, the Seluecid empire fighting the Scipii in Africa while fighting the Brutii in Greece after becoming the sole power of the east! Without nonlinear gameplay strategy games are dull, make no money for expansions or sequels, have no replay value and never have any impact on the trends followed by the gaming market.

[bmolsson]

I am pretty sure that this game was NOT used by the Romans......