Playing as the Iranians, part of the Assyrian ethnic group, I start the game just focusing on my economy and defense - not attacking anyone. My largest neighbors start with a neutral attitude toward me. A couple years later, all my neighbors are invading me (I didn't enter anyone else's territory be...

I just got it about a month ago and play it alot. I've been trying the grand campaign lately, as Persians, then as Iranians. Very difficult at Hard level. Other nations keep ganging up on me, even though I'm not the one to attack first. Being a minority ethnic group in the region must be the problem...

That makes it east!
Thanks.

I downloaded the COW demo, and purchased the game tonight. After playing a few hours, I went to the website and downloaded the patch. On trying to install the patch, I got a message that COW was not installed on my computer. I believe this is due to the location I installed the game to (c:\games\Cha...