Quote Originally Posted by Landwalker
Indeed...my limited experience so far has definitely proven that amassing vast wealth will be, if not utterly impossible, certainly extremely difficult and probably far slower to achieve. Hopefully that will break my preoccupation with purely economic development and encourage me to build some armies. And raid and pillage and all that good stuff.
Maybe, maybe not. My Aedui campaign took forever (about 15 years ~ 60 turns) to get out of the red and start making a decent profit. It turns out sacking Greece as the Aedui is quite profitable. My barbarian bean-counters even razed the Acropolis

More recently as Pontos, I've been swimming in cash since conquering Anatolia and the Levant, despite the upkeep costs of several full stack armies and battalions of spies. If I recall correctly, I was only in debt from 271-269. Those mines and ports really rake in the dough.

Quote Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios
And when you think --wow I can make serious money in EB, no matter what!; we have the Saka and Sauromatae to disprove you.
I'm going to have to take up the Saka gauntlet in 1.0