I thought I'd like to see how is everyone doing in their Imperator II.
My settings hard/hard, huge army and with true roman expansion and house rules enforced.
Imperator II Patch v1.4
These towns came under the rule of the roman empire.
Corfinium - 279BC
Tarentum - 278BC
Croton - 270BC
Ariminum - 267BC
Paestum - 265BC
Arretium - 262BC
Rhegium - 261BC
Empire at 258BC