Originally Posted by
dvk901
This is, has been, a common criticism of RS2. However, we had a very dedicated Beta tester who was a big Spartan fan and historian who played probably around a hundred campaigns with them testing them. They are far from 'easy'. Almost any faction in RS2 can appear 'easy' at first, that's because of the way we set each faction up. In their own 'sphere of influence' (an area in and around where they start) they are powerful economically....and it is the economy that drives the military and can sustain a war or even survival. But once you start getting further into the game, and other AI factions have grown and expanded, and you have expanded beyong your 'sphere of influence', your economy starts to 'tank'. Our beta tester would get well into a Spartan campaign and ALWAYS complain that it got so hard he was not sure he could survive. The Romans, in particular, made it a nightmare to play Sparta.
Now, in fairness, he was using the standard RS2 setup with garrison script and all, so it could be different if one didn't play them that way.