Anyone help me understand the EB factions?

[Anndra]

Just downloaded EB, quite like my history thought this would improve RTW for me. I like the historical authenticity however it can be quite off putting for those who don't understand it. Anyone able to tell me who these 'new' factions are.

I know the Aeudi, Sweboz, Arverni and obvious ones like Makedonia and Romani but there's a lot I don't know and it'd be good to understand who they are.

[mlc82]

This link from the main EB page should do it. Click the round faction symbols on the side to learn about them.

https://europabarbarorum.com/factions.html

[Ca Putt]

Welcome to EB,

Aedui - Gauls
Arche Seleukeia - Seleucid empire
Arverni - other Gauls
Baktria - easternmost Hellenic empire, close to "india".
Casse - British tribe
Epirus - Western Makedonians, remember Phyrrus of Epirus?
Getai - Tracians and Dacians along those lines.
Hayasdan - Armenians
Karthadastim - Carthage
Koinon Hellenon - Hellenic League, Sparta, Athens, Rhodos and friends
Lusotannan - a somewhat celtesque Tribe in Portugal
Makedonia - Macedonia
Pahlava - Parthians(tho you start out as their even more nomadic Predecessors, the Parni
Pontos - mix of Greeks and "persians" living in northern Turky
Ptolemaioi - Greeks in Egypt^^
Romani - Romans
Sab'yn - A people living on the southern tip of Arabia, remember the queen of saba?
Saka Rauka - nomads also known as Sakans.
Sauromatae - nomads also known as Sarmatians
Sweboz - a germanic tribe also known as Suebi

That's roughly the faction list for starters. I skipped prefixes.

[Anndra]

Thank you very much for that list :D and thanks for the other welcomes. Looking forward to learning a bit about history and having fun in RTW.

[Anndra]

Welcome to EB,

Aedui - Gauls
Arche Seleukeia - Seleucid empire
Arverni - other Gauls
Baktria - easternmost Hellenic empire, close to "india".
Casse - British tribe
Epirus - Western Makedonians, remember Phyrrus of Epirus?
Getai - Tracians and Dacians along those lines.
Hayasdan - Armenians
Karthadastim - Carthage
Koinon Hellenon - Hellenic League, Sparta, Athens, Rhodos and friends
Lusotannan - a somewhat celtesque Tribe in Portugal
Makedonia - Macedonia
Pahlava - Parthians(tho you start out as their even more nomadic Predecessors, the Parni
Pontos - mix of Greeks and "persians" living in northern Turky
Ptolemaioi - Greeks in Egypt^^
Romani - Romans
Sab'yn - A people living on the southern tip of Arabia, remember the queen of saba?
Saka Rauka - nomads also known as Sakans.
Sauromatae - nomads also known as Sarmatians
Sweboz - a germanic tribe also known as Suebi

That's roughly the faction list for starters. I skipped prefixes.

I've just went in game and why are factions names spelt differently :S this doesn't make much sense to me. Ie: epirote = epeiros. On the map they're epirote but elsewhere epeiros.

[Ca Putt]

Epirote is the Adjective to Epirus. Epeiros is greek, Epirus is english.

I don't think it's too confusing, It's not like the faction names were all allike. Marginal changes like k-c and o-u-v and adjectivations(is that a word?) are a trademark of Ancient History related literature :D

[Ludens]

Epeiros is greek, Epirus is english.

Nit-picking: Epeiros is the Greek name transliterated to English, while Epirus is the English name.

@ Anndra

The names used in EB are, as far as we can ascertain, the names that were historically used by the factions themselves. The difference between "Epirus" and "Epeiros" is indeed trivial, but, for example, the Carthaginians never referred to themselves as "Punic" or "Phoenicians". Those are the names given to them by the Greeks and Romans (IIRC it means "purple" and refers to the fact that only Phoenicians knew how to make purple dye - which was worth a fortune in those days). Their city wasn't called Carthage, but Kart-Hadast ("New City"). Hence, the EB team decided to call them the "Karthadastim".

[Brennus]

Welcome Anndra!