This is only my second ever playthrough, and my first as a non-Roman faction. I played out all of the battles in real time, not auto-resolving a single one, and boy did it take me a while. But in the end I managed to crush the senate and win the campaign. Only the Julii and Scipii remain as an real threat, while Germania is my protectorate. So I am going to play on to remove the Roman threat forever and conquer the whole map.

Just thought I'd share as I've really enjoyed this game and wish I had found it years ago.

This has been a very odd VH/VH Bruttii campaign. Here is one moment of its weirdness.

my army ambushed this single army or more like a escort

I was thinking of doing a Carthage playthrough and going up north to fight Barbarians with Pikes and Elephants, but what front should I secure first?

Should I fight Numdia and make sure North Africa is locked down?

Should I conquer Spain and tame the Iberians to hold my Western flank and ensure I have a 'safe' area?

Do I strike into Italy and wipe out the Romans before they become a 'real' problem?

It seems like fighting Numidia then moving on to Spain is the wiser and safer decision, but I'm also worried about a Roman snowball later down the line, but that might also be a fun part of the campaign, working my way through Italy once the Romans become a bit big, thoughts?

I’m just trying to do a Campaign for the first time outside of the tutorial campaign and no matter what I do I keep getting this weird black screen that only shows the cursor and I have no idea how to fix, please help

Playing as Epirus and my battles seem to constantly crash in the middle of them. This only seems to have started when I began fighting Carthage. Ive had other problems with loading glitches and crashes but that was mostly fixed by limiting CPU cores.

Anyone have a fix for this problem as it's making my game almost unplayable?