Thanks, cunctator. I think their ownership of Heruskolandam was a bit of a fantasy as well, according to SaFe they had expanded more to the east. Anyway, redrawn map:
As for TFT, best of luck as well. I know you'll come up with something special As people know, scripting is a bit of a passion of mine, so I'm always delighted as people look to use its potential. As regards to the map, the EB map has actually moved on a bit from the one DM left them with. Same geographical limits, of course, but there are definitely team members who've put a lot of time into tailoring and improving it even further - just as I imagine TFT has done.
I think a 107BC start date is interesting, but it leaves me with a problem of how to deal with the marian reforms. Obviously they didn't just happen overnight and events like the Battle of Arausio in 105BC have also been cited as a reason the Roman army changed.
An idea I'm contemplating at the moment is to have pre-Marian troops set-up at the beginning of the game - except perhaps for Marius own command in North Africa - but only allow Post-Marian troops to be recruited, so you have the gradual change. It's a shame we can't upgrade troops from one unit type to another, because that would have been perfect.
As for the Averni bodidley, the problem there is a cultural one. Whichever factions can't be used can only be replaced by factions with the same culture, there are too many icons shared between resources and culture hardcoding to get around it. So while we maybe could replace Carthage with Numidia, I don't think we could use the Greek culture of the Macedons or the KH to do the Averni.
Would the Averni really be the best candidates for 107BC anyway? It's my limited understanding that at that point they'd really gotten the worse of the Roman expansion and we're licking their wounds around Gergovia, essentially subjugated by the Romans. Yes, there's Vercingetorix some decades later, but aside from those few years, were they really as important as they had been? Would you really favour them over say the Cimbri and Teutoni, who were having a much greater impact on that area and could have completely ravaged the Roman republic?
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