Aren't you from Cork? Hardly inspires trust in a Dublin man.
Seienchin, it's true that many of the "Barbarian" factions would have more written sources were the game to start later, but the later we start, the more entrenched Roman supremacy would already be- and many of the Hellenistic factions would fade out. It's all about balance, and 272 BCE is one of the latest dates that we can posit a plausible alternate history. The death of Pyrrhus ended any chance of a Hellenistic Kingdom expanding into the Western Medd.
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