What tribe will claim Hegemony in the Barbarian World?

[Imperator Invictus]

...perhaps keeping them in Italy with the Alps as a limit will give them only choice of recruiting more Roman and Socii units.

Anyway, I want to thank you all, for your suggestions, I'm surprised that you even knew about Burebista (so a baloon for Cute Wolf and Arjos )...but with some of your arguments and some others I have decided to start a campaign with the Aeduii....

The decline of the Celts will be halted by the Aedui, an alternate similarity with real historical process in which the Illyrians and Thracians saved the declining Roman Empire by establishing a “military junta”. The vast majority of the Emperors in the late Empire were of Illyrian-Thracian origin. And so I think that stopping the decline of the Celts is not verry ahistorical.

I will not establish, however a militaristic regime but one based on meritocracy, the most skillful in battle and administration will become FM (renamed “Magistrate”), and perhaps, one day, even the Vergobret himself will be of other ethnicity than Aeduan. I have also changed a few Celtic tribes with some Thracian, Iberian and Germanic tribes, in order to give a proper representation in my pro-Aeduan Confederation and I also have "Massaliot", because I want to use them as the first civilised people who recognise the benefits of the "Aeduan Peace".