Omanes: Regarding your post immediately above - I trust that the name change will only apply in that particular game? i.e. Start a new game and the name of the settlement reverts back the original?

Cesar: How's that Germanic campaign going? I'm midway thru my Parthian campaign right now - and it is a lot of fun. (As so many of our helpful Org bloggers have attested) the key with Parthia is learning to do battle with HA based armies, stay alive early and find a way to keep afloat financially in the opening phases of the game.

Money is no longer a problem. And, those treacherous Egyptians have been whittled down to two provinces. Curiously, the Selecuids have honored an alliance pact with Parthia for nearly 100 years. (Probably because we have Egypt as a common enemy).

Having now reached the eastern edge of Europe, I've begun to assail the Greeks in a huge pincer movement at their northern and southern borders.

Ironically, this game has loosely progressed along the same lines as Barbarossa's Armenian campaign. Not with intention of course - but I guess when the only choice you have as this faction is to 'go west'... Unlike 'Barb however, I don't let my family members marry any females under the age of 13. Heh, heh... On the other hand, my family members do tend to drink grog just a bit much. Can't blame them though - I am after all, their fearless leader who sets the example for them in these matters. Hope to hear from you.