Exactly, they expand far too quickly.

I think Kull's idea #3 is excellent, as the Senate would continue to exist, but instead of starting in the Civil War, you could just bind SPQR and one faction (Romans, Roman armies, or named something like that, I'm not a historian), although I'm not sure that the two spaces could be used (as far as I remember, someone mentioned that the Roman factions cannot be replaced, only removed), if they cannot, it would still leave the Romans in a bit more historical place, as they would be forced to expand more slowly, although two factions would be lost.

The Senate-1 Roman faction would be a possible solution to removing the three houses, but I'm not sure how it would perform at the point of the Civil War (as there are no other Roman factions to fight). I suppose that a way to test it is to beef up (using text-editing only) the other factions and have them eliminate the Scipii and Julii, while the Brutii stand and watch (as the computer rarely uses ships to transport armies), then restore the stats to their previous form and fight off the invaders (and hopefully save the Senate), then proceed to the Civil War and see what happens.

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