Quote Originally Posted by oudysseos View Post
Well, I can do hostility, if you really want. ...
Sorry its a sort of extended pun on our names...but you probably knew that..same with the burnt stick reference...and the "Nobody" line...I was going to say "Oddysseos, he's a Nobody" but I thought it might sound aggressive rather than humorous.

I must say I love the inclusion of the Casse, I really missed an insular faction in RTR (when that was a going concern). I realise they embody a serious historical argument, but I also appreciate them for gameplay reasons.

Certainly in ancient narratives culture movements were often retold as invasions. To flip that, given the amount of casual warfare in pre-modern societies I would be surprised if any culture shift/transimission/whatever occured without a ripple of associated conflicts.

Tha Galatian move into Cappadocia was a mighty raid, and perhaps atypical of the other Celtic movements into Britain and Iberia, but the later celtic culture included somewhat militarised princedoms. I reckon they loved a biff, as well as a good poem-off-and-dance-with-a-druid. I mean the irish records (imaginative as they are) take for granted a background level of raiding and fighting, so any culture change could have involved a level of conflict not inconsistant with the way RTW models warfare.

Might it match the narrative pattern of EB to have the Casse even begin in Belgium with a stack in rebel held SE Britain, as a way of modelling the "infiltration/transmission " of continental Celtism into the insular world?

Just speculatin'.

I love the possibility of more insulars, but I realise there are better documented areas as you say (and as I posted earlier in my nifty spoilered post-love those spoiler wraps).