Imperiums: Greek Wars - 4X-Strategy - Ancient Greece / Sparta / Heroic - No commentary gameplay

I recieved this game for free from the developers a little bit over a month ago. May was not nice to me so I didn’t have a chance to record a playthrough back then. But I used the time to learn how to play the game. It’s quite complicated, I needed more than 50 hours to feel confident enough to play on heroic difficulty. I wanted to play this playthrough on heroic difficulty right away because there’s an achievement for winning on this difficulty. I hoped I’d attract some people to watch it this way. And because I wanted to play as one of the greek city states I chose Sparta. They offer an easier start into the game than other city states. Playing on heroic difficulty is challenging enough as it is! :D The problem is that the factions are badly balanced. The Achaemenid Empire will always win if left alone. After around 5 hours into the game I had a fortified position in Greece and it was time to intervene in Anatole. For the following 3 hours, I unsuccessfully tried to gain a foothol