Playing the Persia expansion for FOG Empires. My usual games in the original involved scrimping and scraping along to try get a progress token but generally being stuck in the bottom third of nations. Starting as Persia you have 3 territories, but the game whooshes you up the CDR and basically gifts you Media, Babylon and Lydia until you own all Asia Minor in around 20 turns. Quite the change because now you are really struggling with decadence.