Its basicly entirely naval based so that automatically makes it terrible. Every other enemy on the planet can travel half way across the map in a single turn. Impossible to take out any factions since there's an absurd penalty for taking capitals. (every hates you immediatly and declares war, so your fighting the entire planet). So basically they'll just be a enemy capital in the middle of your empire building massive armies to ruin your day. It takes a stupid amount of time to build an army in this while every other one can get an army of 20 in about 3 turns. While it takes you around 8-16 turns. Its utter BS. Sparta is supposed to have the best infantry but yet an army of about 3 levy spearmen of athens can kill 2 spartan's best troops with absolute ease. The naval forces make no sense to begin with so i won't describe in detail that garbage. There is hardly any food producing buildings (at least for sparta, one thing only get 6 food which isn't nearly enough for anything) and rebellions pop up everywhere because it's legitimately impossible to get enough food to build the temple (Main positive squalor building as they got rid of all the other ♥♥♥♥).

Only good thing is that its in greece. But the actual caimpagin is frustrating, stupid, and tedious.

Its basicly entirely naval based so that automatically makes it terrible. Every other enemy on the planet can travel half way across the map in a single turn. Impossible to take out any factions since there's an absurd penalty for taking capitals. (every hates you immediatly and declares war, so your fighting the entire planet). So basically they'll just be a enemy capital in the middle of your empire building massive armies to ruin your day. It takes a stupid amount of time to build an army in this while every other one can get an army of 20 in about 3 turns. While it takes you around 8-16 turns. Its utter BS. Sparta is supposed to have the best infantry but yet an army of about 3 levy spearmen of athens can kill 2 spartan's best troops with absolute ease. The naval forces make no sense to begin with so i won't describe in detail that garbage. There is hardly any food producing buildings (at least for sparta, one thing only get 6 food which isn't nearly enough for anything) and rebellions pop up everywhere because it's legitimately impossible to get enough food to build the temple (Main positive squalor building as they got rid of all the other shit). Only good thing is that its in greece. But the actual caimpagin is frustrating, stupid, and tedious.