Hi guys, after having been beaten up in my last three campaigns with Rome in difficulty Normal/Normal I noted something:
The wealth of the AI cities is far superior to mine at the beginning of the game (and even after actually).
For example, this screenshot was taken a few turns after the campaign start, we can see that Genua (level 1 city with no improvement) has a wealth of 689 while Arretium, an equivalent city, has only a wealth of 144.
A single city has a wealth equivalent to the one of the whole province Italia! This is confirmed by the "provinces" window that shows the fact that AI provinces have a far more important wealth.
Now I understand better why the AI can go around with several full stacks and navies while I struggled to defend my borders. Is it an intentional feature of DEI (maybe only specific to Rome)?
P.S These are the mods I use, theoretically none should have such a drastic effect:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=523249674