I don't think they are hard at all.......maybe if they started off with one city and no troops and one general with silver death attacking them

hard as in what you do

you can either stay or migrate

if you migrate, massilia and sycruse are already greek and can produce units (especially UNIQUE)as soon as you take them

just destroy all your buildings and group all your guys on a ship and sail west
I took roma for fun that way.......very interesting early in the game ;)


anyway if you stay and fight
destroy what buildings you want to get some cash at turn one
and group all your troops together to fight the black death even sail your east general back to you

then que 1 unit in each of your cities for garrison and have your general in the field buy a truck load of mercs and add those to your already large army........

let black death attack you crush them and take their cities one by one......
exterminate and leave one unit in each conquered city


the end
el fin

they also have cool heavy spearmen generals instead of calvary tend to live longer in battle imho


I play to survive and i play to build an empire
im not playing to simulate history im trying to change history
my armies aren't composed of historical accuracy they are composed of whatever i have at the time thats best

this isn't a simulation its a war game