whoa...

Playing as the romans it is 269BC, 22 turns into the game... I have just finshed kicking the Greeks out of Italy. I have captured all of 3 provinces (1 rebel and 2 Greek) and fought numerous battles... At one point when I had only 3 cities 2 of them where besieged and all 3 where blockaded and we had only one understrength legion left. I have lost an entire legion in battle and have had two major victories against the Greeks smashing their armies in the field (both times saving us from disaster). I have spent most of the game so far practically broke (I can barely keep up with replacing battlefield losses let alone find the money to build anything). I live in fear of our Carthaginan or Gaulish allies turing on us while we fight the Greeks, war on two front at this point would be the end of us...

And when you compare how tiny our present holdings are both to the scale of the world map and the effort to hold on to what we have I am quite imtimidated.

Wow...