Some interesting ideas. A couple of questions:

1) FMs?

2) Would you say it is more advisable to launch straight into the Macedons and try to tear them down as quickly as possible, or to instead concentrate on the northern rebel settlements? The Macedons start out with a huge army, but it's in Attica and those environs rather than in northern Macedonia--thus, I see a possibility of quickly knocking over a couple of Macedonian cities in the north before the larger military components come in (if they come at all), but I'm also concerned that when they come, I'll have a war-weary army and no money to replenish or reinforce it. On the other hand, I'm concerned about allowing Macedonia to increase its strength early on, and I don't know if seizing northern Eleutheroi provinces will be sufficient to counteract it.

Cheers.