The spy movement was in response to something said by one of the moderators over at the .com, who reckoned one of the reasons Carthage loses out in Sicily is because the go to war with the Greeks before the Romans as a result of seeing Syracuse before Messana, and that moving the spy could alter that. Although I've made all the changes I've mentioned, I haven't tested it yet so I don't know how it will work out.

As regards the Greek situation, I agree with your ideas, especially about Athens and its garrison. In my games the Greeks tend to mangle the Macedonians before getting chewed up by the Romans, with Macedon rarely becoming a true power. The problem is that Greece does need a solid base because the remainder of its settlements are so spread out. Perhaps we should boost the Apollonia and Salona garrisons first to see how the Greece/Macedon situation resolves itself with a slower Roman conquest.

professorspatula, thanks for sharing the unit cards. I'd love to get the Scutarii into the game for Carthage and I think I can make the sprites as well. Did you encounter the same problem with missing 3D textures for the Carthaginian scutarii? I get plain white men at all except the closest views. Victims of the deadly Roman Duluxarii perhaps.