I've been following this mod with a lot of interest over the last couple of months and I've been extremely impressed by the obvious amount of time and effort poured into this undertaking by the team. In general it's been very informative for me to read the information posted by members and interesting to follow the discussions about the various factions and cultures present in the mod.

This whole discussion about the various merits and detriments with regards to 'barbarian' and hellenic cultures is starting to become far more muddled and less friendly the more people debate about the subject. Why is it that some people seem to have such a clear cut image of what makes a culture superior? Many critics of emphasising the development of the various celtic factions appear to be concerned more about how developed these nations will be portrayed in comparison to more hellenic cultures than about the celtic nations being shown as more civilised than they were in vanilla RTW. With regards to this I must wonder where in any information published by the EB team it can be shown that the team will be making the cultures traditionally considered superior less than they truly were. As far as I can tell each faction, each type of culture is being presented as they were in the time this mod was set; if this is to the detriment of the somewhat romanticised hellenic cultures from vanilla RTW then the mod team is hardly to blame for correcting CA's implementation of common misconceptions with regards to many of the factions in the game. It's just a shame to see some people get so worked up about seeing their favourite factions portrayed in a different way to what they've grown used to, and then proceeding to hold rather one sided discussions.

Anyway, with that out of the way I'd like to congratulate the mod team on their excellent work, and I'm looking forward to the next preview!