Campaign game seems to be scripted – Armenia always destroyed, Egypt always a power horse, Rome factions will rule eventually... I am bored even as I write this GAH!!!!!
Actually, if you play a civilisation like greece, you can make enough of a difference to screw up the balance of power. If you can keep syracuse for long enough, then the scipii will never get to destroy carthage, thus keeping them in the game, and if you can cause a bit of mayhem on that peninsular with the pontus on, then for some reason armenia will survive and become one of the main superpowers, and egypt will end up shrinking into nothingness.