More hostile than towards Rebels? It won't happen. Rebels will stay at 600 on the Roman attitude ratings. We don't want to force things to happen certain ways if we can help it though - like the tricky situation of Epeiros, Rome, and Carthage at the start of our game. Rome and Carthage as allies against Epeiros? Epeiros and Carthage had dealings too though and it wouldn't have been to crazy to see them team up against the Romans, or the Romans and Epeirotes against the Carthaginians. Garrisons and recruitment were shaken up a bit for 0.81, so let's see what AI progression looks like and if we need to we might reduce the MIC level by one in Taras or take a unit or two away or something like that. Maybe add a Roman spy there. Let's see how it does with a lot of campaigns though first in 0.81. I don't buy at all the argument that Epeiros is "rolling" the Romans all the time in 0.80. They should occassionally, but I'm not seeing Rome fall anywhere near as often as I think is hinted at here. Just my personal opinion.