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Your trustworthiness also is a factor as well.
Rome doesn’t get a lot of points for diplomatically in this either.
It is on normal difficulty
They also do have 2 full stacks, with 2 cities, me with 4 can barely afford 1 with maybe 6 extra units.
Its way too buffed AIs
No, they are still restricted by imperium levels.
AI in Rome 2 will ALWAYS recruit max amount of armies and max amount of units, even if it means going into debt as AI does not understand it has to earny money, food or even public order. If you not give AI a hand early on, you run into typical TW issue where after 50 turns you can quit the campaign as no faction ever will be any trouble for you due to incompetent AI.
On release day of Rome 2, CA did not add bonuses to food, money and public order for AI. By turn 100, map was full of bankrupt, starving faction plagued by rebellions.
For new players, this is recommended submod before you get more familiar:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2461514066&tscn=1648867600