Hey, QQ.

[Ludens]

Why can't the so-called "Barbarians" build huge cities?

Because they didn't do so historically? Huge cities require some sort of administrative system to work. "Barbarian" governments were often pretty rudimentary compared to the bureaucracies of Rome and the western Greeks. The latter, in turn, paled next to the vast systems of the eastern empires.

[athanaric]

Plague control is difficult in big cities, which might be one of the reasons...

[Megas Methuselah]

Because they didn't do so historically? Huge cities require some sort of administrative system to work. "Barbarian" governments were often pretty rudimentary compared to the bureaucracies of Rome and the western Greeks. The latter, in turn, paled next to the vast systems of the eastern empires.

That makes sense and all, but that new Boii preview with huge cities got me wondering, eh?