bought this game a couple days ago because I got on a kick of wanting to play a Roman strategy game and my old copy of Rome 2 wasn't quite cutting it anymore. It's fucking kino and does a better job of simulating the feeling of surviving the apocalypse than most actual "post-apocalyptic" games. It's stressful as fuck but in a way that feels fun instead of tedious

I started my first game as the Visigoths because they're the faction I think is coolest that doesn't have a "warning: you're going to get raped" starting difficulty rating, raided the Danube and Greece for supplies and released Dacia and Macedonia as tributaries to fuck with the Eastern Romans, then moved into Illyria, smashing 3 Western armies in a battle where I was outnumbered 2.5:1 and leaving the path to Cisalpania open to other Germanic tribes while I snuck around the north side of the Alps. After sacking all of the cities Rome still had north of the Alps (as well as Mediolanum because the opportunity presented itself) I bumrushed Gaul and finally settled in Aquitania, then attacked the Romans across the border in Hispania and seized Tarconensis too.

Stabilizing and settling two provinces at once was a bit of a doozy but after all of Italy (including Rome) was razed by the Huns and the Western Empire effectively does not exist outside of southern Hispania and North Africa, I think I'm in a good position to finish them off and consolidate all of Iberia as my own, especially after beating the Huns in my own war after they were done with Italy, all of my northern and eastern neighbors are on friendly terms and I have a nice buffer to focus on finishing off the degenerate Latins once and for all