Quote Originally Posted by moonburn View Post
the use of the schytians as a whole is impossible cause you can´t represent the group or else they would be a long streetching line from kallatis to the hirkanian sea cutting off hay from the sauromatae, thats why i said mikra schytia as a starting point far better. cause the schytian where mostly no longer nomads and where actually not a single political unity so the schytians of mikra schytia wich still retained some sort of nomadism where the best choice.
"Skythian" was a term used by greeks to describe many steppe peoples it didn't mean that there was a single political entity streching across all that territory, think of it more in the way "Celts" was used to describe the various tribes living across europe who had a shared culture and lauguages. Also the Skythians of Mikra Skythia were the most settled not the least.

The main argument against them I've heard of is that the Skythian Kingdom (in Mirka Skythia) was very weak at EB's start date and ceased to exist very soon after. It's a bit of a shame really as they would be a great faction to play.

@subotan
the way i understand bosporans (on the bosphorus strait) it makes litle sence as a faction cause on one side you have bythinia and on the other you got a greek city called bizantium both sucessors to lysander (such as pergamon)

it would make more sence for a faction an hellenic schytian faction in crimea making bundles out of the wheat market to athens and hellas proper
The Bosporan Kingdom was a powerful greek kingdom in what is now the Crimea, nothing to do with the Bosphorus straights where Byzantion is but it is an easy mistake to make. You could think of them as a Skythian influenced Greek faction so they fit your description pretty well.


numidians
pergamon
(easy pickings right)
siracuse
boii
belgae
schytians
galatians
araveci
ethiopian kingdom of meroe (the land of the gold as the egitians called them)
as for the 10th no clue maybe the irish but that would make northewestern europe a bit 2 overcrowded beteween belgs casse and irish all trying a byte at the same
The kingdom of Meroe wouldn't make it due to problems with the culture limit.