Iberians never meets Chinese or Scythians.
What you mean with "orcs" is a kind racist slurp there?
Sorry but indigenous peoples are not fantasy orcs.
It is also absurd that the Seleucids were fighting the Ptolemies in Germanic forests.
The map design is a puzzle, the player must be at a technological and logistical disadvantage. The challenge would be to overcome their difficulties.
You have to fill your enemies with traps and defenses, by traps I mean difficult to attack passes.
The player's base must be poor, with scarce resources, but enough to be able to attack and take a second settlement.
This is an overview of what maps look like in some games.
Without sacrifice there is no satisfaction in revenge.
As you said the cursor, but there is no button in the interface, I was expecting a button, not everyone learns keyboard shortcuts.
In the middle panel, near the skull icon, there I was expecting something.