I think you’re spot on about loot and snowballing. Right now, it just benefits the player who’s already winning, and it’s almost invisible, so there’s no real choice or strategy involved. Making looting something players actively do — like plundering buildings or taking resources from the battlefield — could make it more fun and give losing players a chance to fight back. Snowballing isn’t a problem by itself, but when it’s automatic and uninteractive, it makes comebacks almost impossible.

I'd like to see this campaign make it into the game, is there anything I can help with? I've started to think about making a campaign too based on the wars between the Seleucids and Ptolemies and Maccabees.

Single player, you resumed from a save? The replays can't handle that. Supposedly one can merge the partial replays, but so far nobody was able & willing to tell me how. (And a botched frankenfile disabled the game for me until I deleted it with a file manager.)

I've tried to Watch Replay a couple of times after a game, and in both instances the same thing happened: my units do absolutely nothing and I lose the game. But that's certainly not what happened