Writing a guide for this game is going to take a long time.

In RTW, you took one look at your starting faction and knew what to do. Brutii needed to invade Greece. Scipii needed to destroy Carthage. Juliaii need to conquer Gaul. Even the unlocked factions had pretty obvious goals.

Starting a Hun campaign, I don't even know what most of Europe looks like. I have a grand total of one spy, and no way to build more. I'm starting the campaign over and going to use my hordes to raid and explore before I try settling down this time.