Quote Originally Posted by Grod Tepes
Me cheat - never!

I was reading a thread over on TWC in which someone was wondering how the AI had so much money to spend on furnishing army after army, where his faction was grubbing about to make ends meet.

I learnt it's all down to scripting. Apparently, the EB script gives 1200 mnai (2200 - slaves/rebels) per settlement. The argument is "You've got the brain; the AI gets the money". (It also explains how, in my current Roman campaign, Macedon, who have been reduced to a lonely exile on Lesbos, have managed to build two full stack armies on the island! Pity they've no way of getting off )
Ahem...

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=83349