Quote Originally Posted by Veho Nex View Post
Athens gets slayed in about 10 turns in every game Ive played with them. Then there is Sparta, Korinthos, and Boiolation League start the game practically in a military alliance with everyone around them. You are then rapidly stuck with two options. Diplomatic penalties for slaying your fellow greeks or spend the entire game with your empire fractured.
Which is how the Peloponnesian war went. Athens over stretched it self and got smacked down by the other major poleis led by Sparta.