I had a quick run through last night (on E/E ha ha - I am such a wimp) and a few thing struck me.

It is awesome when you have no idea what a any troop types are capable of.
Advanced on some roman "spearman" and pow out fly pila. Was not expecting that.

Also it seems there are some severly overpowered troops in BI. Clibanarii are just tanks. Almost unstoppable (albeit on easy), but then up agianst a roman general and three units of Clibanarii took an age to route him.

I also found that HA don't really do all that much damage. Insaying that I am sure that Limitarii and Commis-whatever are probably highly armoured. Who do they hurt then? Or do they require weapon upgrades to become effective?

It is also a quite a hike from the starting cites to anything really. Troop producing cities that far away are not all that helpful really.....

Thoughts?