yes of course its expansive for rome... but for carthago the same, how i said... all heavy units of the carthaginians (like heavy mercenaries and golden band are more and more expansive per recruited unit!) and carthago has a big manpower penalty!!! and very expanded provinces... rome is much easier...

the carthaginians have the same problem...

my solution is now, to edit the game so that there is a big big loyalty and i didnt need to build anything in the later game... but thats cheating and is bad and booring

it seems that nearly nobody plays the game for a longer time... the province auto management doesnt works and this is a big big problem. in the later game the game is nearly unplayable, because of the extrem micromanagment, you habe to build in every litte region, that needs 95% of the playtime and ...