Turn 43 Boioi 262 BC VH/VH.
Kinda feels like ive won already since i used my main army to take nearby rebel settlements, waited 2-4 turns for each for em to sally out and then went to grab next one. I just couldn't resist to take another after another since they were easy pickings. Now that i grabbed the ones i was after, toggle_fow kinda shows that AI has not really taken any at all (except Lusitania suprise-grabbing Morocco), meaning im basicly superpower surrounded by 1-2 region AI Kingdoms. This has been by far the easiest start ive had on VH/VH, expected it to be hard but had no knowledge beforehand how it would be as first game with "barbarians" in EB2 for me.
Anyways, maybe ill continue, just gonna turn on turtle mode and work on my settlement's infrastructure and have AI time to catch on, many of my settlements only have starting field as they have not yet reached 800 population, so i can't even build anything in em yet.
My Leader is heading with his silver chevron veterans back to capital to retrain em and form core for main army out of em after successful campaign of 9 invaded areas (total 11 now).
Think ill put few screenshots from that campaign on dedicated screenshot topic, as i occasionally put time on 0.1x speed and hid UI and spectated action closely.