The Greek Problem.

[Ludens]

Well, that's arguable since, for example, Kyrene attempted to take over Egypt together with the Seleucids, and Syracuse had long tried to rule Sicily and Magna Grecia. EB1's faction list is not the only possible selection, even when using the same criteria.

That said: I agree that, at this point in history, the Greek colonies weren't particularly more aggressive than other cities. Creating a special faction for them would suggests that there weren't other minor players attempting to start their own little kingdom in the shadow of greater empires.

[fightermedic]

yes of course
doing so just for greeks is the wrong way
if doing something like this it would have to apply to any neutral city
the whole problem might, however, be most visible with the greek cities in mind since those had a extremley strong habit of fighting with any neighbour they had
but this surly applies to other possible factions like, lets say iberian tribes, too
empires minor/major faction thing would be a good way to have them factions, which the team would not have the time to fully flesh out, represented
well
but i gues you just have to work with what you have

well and regarding the agressive thing
i think almost every faction at this time was VERY agressive and engaged in many wars
it's just the fact that most did not have much succsess in terms of gaining big amounts of territory with their wars :D

[Brennus]

Wasn't there some mention by the EBII team that the KH would be re-structured?

[Ludens]

I recall a promise that the KH would be fairly unstable in EB2; so no more perpetual alliance between Athens and Sparta. I don't know about any further restructuring.

[bobbin]

It's still the same 3 cities but yes, it is much more unstable now.

[antisocialmunky]

I seem to remember there were 'kill the Faction Leader' missions from the council of nobles. It would be interesting if you could trip that mission for your own FL.

[Brennus]

It's still the same 3 cities but yes, it is much more unstable now.

Wasn't there some mention of it being possible to gear the KH to evolve into either the Aetolian or Achean league or something along those lines?

[bobbin]

Nope. What would be the differences between the KH and any of those leagues anyway? Apart from the obvious territorial ones.

Basically the KH in EBII will more representative of what it was in history, that is to say a alliance of independent city states, I will not say any more though, need to keep some stuff for the previews.