I included the Faction rankings, dunno if you find it helpful or not, I included the factions that are powerful in my game as Romans, Carthage, Ptolemy, Seleucids, Baktrians, Armenians, Parthians and myself. I got a message like 8 turns ago Egypt is about to win, not much I can do, navies are too damn expensive to and roaming pirate fleet with 7 stars that keeps randomly blockading my sicilian ports prevents me from risking moving out of the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic seas.

Carthage is my next objective after I stabilize my northern front a bit more, once I sieze carthage proper I can begin moving into Gaul or Greece with sufficient naval power and commercial might to back up full-scale invasions of those kinds.

Overall I think I'm doing good.