‘’I'm not too keen on dividing Caledonia and Ireland. They're real outskirts of civilization at the time, and not that important.’’ I thought the point of this mod was to get away from a romano-centric view of civilisation? Maybe not though? Is this not like the Romanophiles who say that the Germans and Gauls are on the outskirts of civilisation and are not that important?
Don't get overzealous with all that anti-Roman phobia... Let's be frank, you don't get much more peripheral than Ireland and Scotland in ancient Europe. For the continental Gauls and Germans they were also far away lands. Do you want to divide them into several provinces just to get more 'barbaro-centric'? I see no point in that. I'm not the member of the team, so I can only give my wishes on how this mod should be developed, but the way I see it, continental Germany and Galia should be the key factions in the North, with Britons only slightly more diversed than they already are... The 'barbarians' were divided into many small tribes, to try to represent all of them as separate provinces makes little sense for a game that spans in scope from Spain to, hopefully, Indus. The british peripheria weren't that important not only for the Romans, but also compared to the rest of the continent...

And as for the romano-centric view...we only have all this info on Gaulish and Briton tribes because of the Roman chronicles. I, for one, would love to see more diversity in the north-east part of the map, but because Romans weren't interested in those regions, we don't have enough information to reconstruct these lands. So if you will concentrate on diversing Britons and Gauls, while leaving the north-east for 'big empty steppe provinces', you _will_ introduce romano-centric view of Europe no matter what.