When I was playing as the casse about 10 years in a message apeared telling me that the gods seemed to have abandoned us and the ptolemaics were about to acheieve their victory conditions and win the game. I didnt know AI factions could win the game, and the ptolemaics werent even doing that well. Certainly the had most of phonecia but they hadnt really attacked the seleucids or the carthaginians. Anyway, I played for another 20 years and nothing came of it.