Alright, so I'm playing Medium campain/easy battle(if it makes sense) as the Brutii. I'm at 220. I control from Tarentum, the entire greek peninsula, all the way up to Campus Scythia(or something like that). I have about 25k in the treasury, several armies available, and I'm about to cross to Asia Minor to take on Pontus who controls it. The entire mediteranean is for the most part mine.


Anyway, I have several problems. All the Greek(Thermon,Sparta...)/Macedonian cities(Thessalonica, Bylazora...) have severe overcrowding, easily above 15k pop. And that's screwing with their loyalty/income. What can I do about this? I try making massive settler(peasants) armies, but still, they just pop back up soon enough. So what can I do?

Should I continue into Asia Minor and take on Pontus, Armenia, and eventually Egypt? Or expand up north(modern day Poland/Ukraine and all that place) and then when I have all of that territory come down to take on Pontus and whatnot?

Any advice you have would be very much appreciated.