Lord Cazaric, what would be your time table for greece? It would be a very, very small map. What would be the incentives to play as some of the smaller city states? Shogun at least had bonuses to the various warlords. If they followed history, Athens and Sparta would be way overpowered compared to the others.

Cambyses II, who would be the factions for Islam? It doesn't seem like there would be very many. Based on the map it wouldn't even include the Mali, who became quite powerful in western Africa.