Look guys, the reason that there haven't been more faction previews, or that we haven't 'revealed' the faction list is that there is an ungodly amount of work that goes into building a faction. It's not just a matter of, 'Oh, a faction in x region would be cool'.

Of course we have considered* or are considering an Illyrian faction, a Syracusan faction, Numidian factions, more Celtic factions, Greek factions and so on. We have access to all the same information that everyone else has, so you will hardly see new factions that no-one has ever heard of, and it's hardly giving anything away to say that there won't be a Chinese faction, or a Sub-Saharan African faction, or the Huns and so on.

The point is that if you really think that there ought to be an Illyrian faction (or whatever), do a serious proposal. Oddly enough, two of the people who did so as fans later joined the team. Bear in mind that 'it would be cool' is not enough reason: you have to have verifiable historical sources that cover all the details, such as;

a decent grasp of the history of the people involved,
personal names (you need hundreds of these),
a list of ethnicities relating to the EB trait system,
names of regions, settlements and other locations,
you need a working familiarity with the language that they spoke since EB does everything in native languages,
detailed descriptions of everything related to military matters including archaeological references,
a unit list derived from above,
a workable and realistic system of government buildings, tech trees and cultural buildings (with names in the applicable language),
unique landmarks, cultural information, religious information
and then you need to model, skin and code the units.
After that we can talk about reforms and scripted gameplay. Not to mention voicemods.

And that's just a start. Even the basic research stage is hundreds of hours and thousands of words typed. SO that's the major point: no matter how legit or cool a faction is, of there is no one interested in doing the work then it's not gonna happen.










* Considered is not the same as decided, guys.