my bet is still on the arevaci and then maybe just maybe the ethiopians (now meroe or axum beats me but both have safe starting positions and with those gold mines and pachiderm cabs they can stand their own against the ptolemaioi making the campaign for the ptolemaioi funnier and more balanced wich might stop them from eating up the seulekids wich are totally surrounded by people wanting a peace of them , must be the fact that they seem fat and tasty)

also someone mentioned me the khwarziams i went to check where they where and discovered they where "part" of the parni/parthians/phalava or at least in the same territory

also a 3rd iberian faction wouldn´t be out of the equation with the illergetes seeming the best choise by far since they can impose themselfs on gallia and iberia making the campaign far more fun

also why not the bituriges they where once great they still had the potencial for greatness by taking away bits of power from the ongoing civil strife in gallia comanded by the aedui and arverni (altough i´ve read somewhere they where conected somehow to the arverni)

also the noricene could be a good call and even the tylians

skordisci with the joining of the boii seem a bit far fetched but damm their cordinau orca rulle and just that unit would make them a viable faction alone

if the team wishes to piss off the spanish and french they could create a basque faction (now that would make eb know all over the world with all the bitching that the spanish and french goverments would make )

but my great wuv would undoutably be the syrakousay the great hoplon that defends magna graecia against the karchedoi greed and the roman abuses against the poor and helpless greeks the great sea batles for the reconquering of the western mediterranean and the signing for a great pan greek western union with emporion massilia and tarentum \o

but that last one is a myth and a dream but what a sweet dream ^^