One good hint too: don't try to destroy all those damned rebel stacks: since your lands are so poor, the loss of income caused by them is very small. Use your forces to sack rich civilised settlements instead. I realised it too late in my Sauromatian campaign andgot stuck in great debt until 220BCE, having wasted time and men in an endless war against the Sweboz. When I tried to go south, hellenic armies there were almost unbeatable, it was too late. I remember Aorsi riders spending all their arrows shooting at the back of Chaonian Agema and killing only fifteen...