It`s been a while since I relocated the brits to italy on vh/vh. It was insane, at least one full stack of juli or scipii or gaul each turn. Of course I had no money, so I couldn`t retrain my units for a long time. The only thing that kept me going was that my light charriots did all the work so I hardly had any losses.
Northern italy was littered with battle markers. It was awesome.
I tried to repeat it with spain, but the spain starting army could`t even defeat SPQRs starting army, let alone the other factions.