Quote Originally Posted by Dux Corvanus
4) This doesn't mean they were uncivilized or stupid, simply Celtic and German worlds, while culturally rich, were technologically much inferior to the Grecolatin-Punic world that dominated the Mediterranean. In RTW they're the way they are, because of game balance. But reality wasn't balanced, had it been, the Roman Empire would have never existed. The moment the barbarian assimilated a more urban lifestyle, and cultivated concepts such as state, administration and science -as with Visigoths, etc.- the late Roman Empire couldn't cope with them so efficiently. One of the causes -apart from the inner ones- for Western Empire to fall.
This assumes that the "barbarians" did not have an urban lifestyle, or concepts such as state, administration, and so on. They did. Please read my post above. The Germanic tribes did not, but the Celts certainly did so, and were highly advanced in the areas of state, administration, and science. As advanced as the Romans? No, but advanced, certainly.