true, but you cant compare rome total war with eaw in a long shot. first, it takes several turns to build your army if your playing the vanilla game. so it takes several turns to build up an army then you need to make sure your not getting in the red what forces you to do alot of checking your cities and stuff those factors make that it are long campaigns; in eaw you build the units in real time so you don have to hit that next turn button every time, plus you dont have to wait for the computer to make a move. and i did not play the game on hard mode, but it took me 92 days ingame to get to the last mission on easy, and there are still alot of planets open. What could increase the time of the campaign: revolts on your core planets wher you have stationed almost nothing of armies. more random events like you need to bribe planet x otherwise it will revolt and your amries are several days away, and so can the revolt spread... what i am saying is: what the game does not have now:, will it get from the modding community. cya