Hmmm. Loooking at The Recruitment viewer it would seem that your recruitment in southern italy wouldn't have been that bad had your campaign survived. What about a campaign in which you migrate to india as the Saka or Baktrians. Or you could play a campaign and migrate to Galatia as the Aedui/Arverni/Casse. Or you could play the KH and migrate to a greek colony. And your recruitment would be pretty good according to the viewer.