Sweboz historical guide

**anubis88** · 02-16-2009, 16:14

Hi everyone.
After a long time i came back to eb. I stopped playing it because i played the "civilized" factions to death and quite frankly got bored.

So now i started playing with the barbarians. I played with the Arverni, the Aedui and even the Sweboz.
I played the Arverni till rome bacame to strong, and now playing the aedui i fear i'm gonna get crushed by the romano-germanic alliance.
With the Arverni and Aedui the goals were clear cut. Since i enjoy playing historically i tried not to crush the arverni but only took one province for them, and only when need of money was dire i conquered two more gallic provinces but made the allies. I could've conquered everything in site, but then the game just loses fun for me.

So what i would like to know now is how to play with the Sweboz. I mean, what would they do? which provinces did they conquer (at least formaly) how small should my kingdom be kept? Which goverments to install in the conquered provinces? where would they direct their conquering? North, west east or south? and so on and so on.

I would really apreciate if anyone who knows Suebi history could give me a hint or two

Thanks in advance

P.S.

Also if anyone has a historical view on the Arverni, Casse or Lusotana, feel free to chip in your knowledge, since i might try them too

**Macilrille** · 02-16-2009, 17:00

Strictly speaking none...

Game terms though... Denmark, Rügen, I forget those barbaroi province names... if I get time I will be back to you, but Cmaq might be able to enlighten you as well as he is an American archeologist with that as his speciality.

**anubis88** · 02-16-2009, 17:36

Originally Posted by Macilrille

Strictly speaking none...

Game terms though... Denmark, Rügen, I forget those barbaroi province names... if I get time I will be back to you, but Cmaq might be able to enlighten you as well as he is an American archeologist with that as his speciality.

Really? wow.
Hope to hear from him soon

**Macilrille** · 02-16-2009, 17:42

Well... I am a Danish historian, I can easily spend hours telling you about the subject, I just cannot remember the province names, sorry.

Perhaps I should go and conquer them in my Res Publica Romani campaign and check it ;-)

**anubis88** · 02-16-2009, 18:00

Were those provinces under Suebi control? or is their maximum already what they have at the start of EB?

**Macilrille** · 02-16-2009, 18:32

Not really the germans never really formed any nation as such during EB timescale, nor even a confederation covering a province. However, to reflect the German threat and because people like the Germans, 30 small Eleutheroi provinces would not do. So they gave the Suebi/Sweboz a single province from which to expand, which is very ahistorical, but probably the only way it could be easily done.

**cmacq** · 02-17-2009, 03:29

Originally Posted by Macilrille

Strictly speaking none...

Game terms though... Denmark, Rügen, I forget those barbaroi province names... if I get time I will be back to you, but Cmaq might be able to enlighten you as well as he is an American archeologist with that as his speciality.

Actually to be fair, my area of expertise is in the American Southwest; or more specifically the central highlands of Arizona. However, it seems I may be a quick study and for some reasons, find myself looking into the archaeology of Holland, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungry, Romania, the Baltic States, Belarus, the Ukraine, and western Russia.

And...
technically the Boii were of Germania; the Cimbros were first mentioned in the Odyssey; and the Guthons were referenced by Pytheas in the 4th century BC, most likely when they still ran southern Sweden. But again, technically they were considered Germans because that region was also considered part of Germania.

CmacQ