I've played enough campaigns now, with FOW off (bug testing), to notice a recurring peace that exists between Epeiros and the Romani.

Both factions will have heavily stacked armies sitting within their borders but not attacking one another.

Epeiros seems to expand in Greece but make peace with the Romans. As a result, Roman expansion is haulted. THey don't seem to advance at all up north but rather wait out this peace, which has yet to break in any of my games (mind you they all have CTD'd so perhaps they would have).

Carthage almost always keeps an army near Rhegion but never attacks. Neirther Epeiors, Romani, or Carthage try to conquer lower Italy.

Has any one else come across this? The stalemate will hurt later on game play, since I always have hopes to go up against a full stacked late Romani army.