Starting in the single province of Thrace, hard against the Illyrians to the west, Macedonians to the south and Scythians to the east, the Thracians are a decidedly barbarian faction. With two rebel provinces (Dacia and Agriana) to go for, though, there are opportunites to expand without starting a major war - if you get there first!

Because tribal boundaries can be a bit fluid, there is slightly more variety than may be expected...

Thracian Troop Roster (start province only)

  • Thracian Cavalry (Royal)*
  • Thracian Peltasts
  • Thracian Romfeoforoi
  • Illyrian Tribesmen
  • Slingers
  • Tribal Archers
  • Tribal Hunting Party
  • Tribal Spearmen
  • Tribal Pikemen


* Thracian Cavalry will need a tweak due to the Royal era thing.... working on that.

They are a bit short of decent archers (the Tribal Hunting Party is a good unit, but small) so they will have to go in search of some more promising provinces. Within fairly easy reach, they can recruit Scythian Horse Archers, Dacian Romfeoforoi, Agrianes and also the Cimmerian troops. The Cimmerians are a dying race, pushed out of their homelands long ago by the Scythians - only a few archers, spearmen and axemen are left, holed up in an insignificant part of the map. Leave it too long and they will be gone (which is to say they can only be recruited in 'early').

Although the faction doesn't start with a historical king, the Royal names list ensures that some historical kings will appear during the 'high' era. Records of Thracian kings don't go back to 560BC, unfortunately.

A typical Thracian army in the field, with the Thracian Romfeoforoi in the foreground (and, yes, I'd already taken Agriana, so there are some Agrianes in there, too)

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