AS has to bust a lot of factions heads to take their pieces of the pie. In terms of "death miles" (I believe thats a military theory term in some circles) they have as much as the Romans to munch, maybe more. Of course they don't have to fight themselves, which is a big advantage: I reckon the two times I ahaven't had to slay mountains of silver warriors so far is as the Lussotani and the Casse.

Relative to their starting position the one province factions (Saba, Casse, Lussotani, Getae) have to push a lot of poo up a lot of hills. The Getae ahave perhaps the smallest list of all, and few close neighbours to clash with but when you try to grasp those last provinces (be they Dalmatian or Asian) boy is it a slog.

I'm just playing Baktria, and they don't have a hard row to hoe: 3 neighbours, one weak and 2 at each others throats so you can pick up the pieces. Long distances of course but a corner position in India is a nice safe fallback. definitely one of the smallest in square miles, provinces and active opposition.