Quote Originally Posted by GracchusTheGreat
Sounds a bit tedious though, eh?

Besides, meeting the enemy's best units on the battlefield is what the game's all about! Truly frustrating is having to fight endless stacks of skirmishers and various assorted push overs.

I'd recommend playing by some set of "house rules" to make the game more of a challenge. The designers of EB, I believe, give the computer so much money because, thanks to CA, it can't be given any more brains! The golden rule, then, is not to do unto the AI that which the AI is too hard-coded to do unto you. No EB player has ever been massively blockaded or had his barracks sabotaged on every turn.
As soon as the TW series includes a real diplomacy system, I'll start using more restrained house rules. The tedium of knocking down barracks and whacking small low quality reinforcement armies is nothing compared to the tedium of wiping out elite full stacks - kill count ~15-20k of Ptolemaioi elites by now. They've lost the war, the game just doesn't have the diplomacy system for the AI to recognize the fact and stop bothering me (if I were willing to let them, which I am in this case). And I'm using one of the money scripts - I dare say I would have quit by now without it. Even so I doubt I'll have the patience to get to the Marian reforms... Especially if the new EB release comes out soon, as people seem to be speculating!