Quote Originally Posted by Long lost Caesar
i always see people saying how beginners should play as rome because theyre easy. i gotta disagree though, since as rome you fight against nearly every faction in the game, if not at least every culture, so youre constantly adapting. makes it fun, but i wouldnt call it easy. VH/M difficulty may explain my own disagreement, but all the same, rome is one hell of a mountain to climb!
Yes, but it's a much less steep slope at the bottom of that mountain--Rome is one of the few factions I've played as so far that doesn't immediately plunge into debt, so it's much easier to "ease in" with Rome instead of (for example) taking Pyrrhus and frantically rampaging through Greece and Macedonia in an increasingly desperate effort to eliminate your opponents before your army (which can't be replenished due to debt) is ground down to dust. I think that's what people are meaning when they suggest that beginners or people having trouble should try starting out with Rome.

Cheers.