Hello!! This is my first post!!

Set the time back to year 214BC, and there you have my House of Julii.

It has over 38 provinces and has funds at about 12000 denarii.

My 4 major cities (and only these 4 can recruit good units): Mediolanum [urban cohorts], Patavium [praetorian cavalry], Arretium [urban cohort], Ariminum [praetorian cavalry, archer auxilla, onagers]

Here are two problems, though, which I need help with.

1) I am thinking of going and taking all the enemy provinces back at the Italian peninsula. The problem is that Brutii has more than DOUBLE of my military ranking, and their units are not a joke. My navy is not what you would call "strong", but they are adequate enough for some purposes. [Navy total: 1 FULL navy (20 triemes, not biremes) 2 navies (3 triemes in each) {NOTE: I have not been outlawed yet}

2) My finance is going down for some reason. I am building as much financial buildings as possible, but it is still at -1000 per turn. (I have one full squad [of 9 urban cohorts, 4 praetorian cavalry, 4 archer auxilla, 2 onagers] and one squad [of 6 legionnairy cohort, 4 legionnairy cavalry]

Please help and give me some ideas about what to do!! I will update my situation every few days!! Any help would be APPRECIATED.