Realism vs gameplay balancing?

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

All the antipathy against Rome by the americans here is just based on envy. At the times Romans built a huge empire and beautiful buildings you were living in caves or tents, the more civilized. U got no history and u quote the few battles where the romans were defeated...what about the other thousands they won? You know why anyone remembers them ? because they were just the exception that confirms the rule, id est the roman army and his generals were superior. It's like quoting general Custer being crushed by Crazy Horse at lil big Horne. Hope u get the point.
As for the other european here you might have had good warriors but they lacked of discipline.

Please restrain from commenting things you do not know about. Nobody is bashing Romans. And most of the realistic non-biased comments are made by non-americans and are also perfectly justified.

On another note. Rome hadn't the best generals. They had some good ones, but most of the times Romans wer poorly commanded. Their great capabilities were organization, logistics, adaptability, great trainning and discipline. They weren't individually better skilled than many other warriors.

BTW, Custer, like so many Americans of those days, was an asshole. And I'm not saying this because of envy. The politics of the American goverment of that era were responsible for one of the greatest genocides in History: the slaughtering of the North American Indian populations. 5 million across North America in the end of 17th century, less than 500000 at the end of the 19th century. And nobody talks about those dispicable actions. Like the American Governmental policy of incentives to kill all praire bisons. This to destroy the food resouces of the greatest obstacle to colonial expansion in the great plains area: the Sioux. Like the random genocidal attacks to villages implemented by the "glorious" US Army. Or like every other promisse made by the white men and always broken.

Parapharasing one American Indian Chief:

"...what promisse have we made that we've not kept? None. What promisse the white men made they have not broken? Not one..."