I don't know what to say but I am having a pretty cool campaign as WRE. I managed to keep the empire together by mainting the exsisting religion of the provinces. I defeated the couple of revolts that appeared and managed to balance the books to start making money and being able to rebuild.

The campaign became a little quiet at that point. Lots of building up and slowly developing a couple of legions for defence and dealing with rebels. A lot of monitoring the seetles to keep public order in chack and keep the taxes flowing.

The years have flowed by pretty quick and the empire is growing strong again. Harassment from the Berbers and the Celts have been dealt and the ERE have broken their alliance with us and attacked. They have been thrown from the wall a couple of times with no shortage of luck involved.

Recently the Vandels have turned up, overrun a small army I had defending the Danube crossing and attacked a walled city. Dispite my preperation the city fell to an assault and that was pretty exciting (god I wish you could save campaign battles).

Personally I find the BI campaign starts with a bang and then going quiet for a while and then the real fun kicks of... Just my experience so far. The the ERE armies that attacked me? Archers, legionaries, cavalry and generals (sometimes)... I have only survived by destroying their siege equipment...

SOrry, should have said this is Hard/Hard...