I just finished my first Rome 2 campaign as Macedon and holy shit why do the victory conditions need to always be so large?
Around turn 60 I had so much money that I just spammed out armies and threw money at every single issue the campaign had to throw at me so it got very boring very quickly. PO wasn't even close to an issue since you'd think it'd be a problem with large empires conquering shit every turn, but when at most you'll get like -30 from buildings, but the resource buildings easily give you 50+ when you get enough of them so it never matters. Corruption is a joke because of this too.
The late game units didn't need to be stuck behind so much research either because I won my campaign long before they even mattered, but I will say they were super fun to use and having 150 armor/morale and almost 100 melee attack on hoplites was a spectacle to watch.
The AI is completely slimy compared to other TW games which was the most irritating. NEVER did they want to fight fair and they would always sit right outside of my range specifically so they could take a random city 5 turns away and then die.
I'm not sure if I want to jump into Rome Remastered or try a steppe faction like Royal Scythia since cav spam looked fun and I enjoyed playing Parthia before this.