hasn't been much talk going on recently so i will stimulate some. anyone wanna guess who the remaining two factions are? before anyone says "oh but there are five faction slots left because of unified rome" khelvan has specifically stated that there would be two new factions, bactria which we hav already had (replaces numidia) and something else that is a secret. now i am assuming that dacia and thrace hav either been merged or that only one prominent tribe from that area will be represented with a faction, and that the slot freed up by doing this will go towards the new faction.so, for our un-previewed factions, we have:

1.Thraco-dacian faction
2.?????

There has been some speculation to who this last one is. I will now state the factions that EB members hav stated specifically it will not be: Averni (sp?), Mauryans, and anything further east than the mauryans (obviously due to map constraints). i believe there are some other factions we can rule out:

1) Numidia, for obvious reasons. also i think they hav said that they (EB) were not important enough to be in.

2) Galatians, because Pontos gets galatian units and i do not believe that they would give them these if they were planning a seperate Galatians faction.

3) Any of the other Gallic tribes, for obvious reasons.

there are more but unfortunately i am bored and kinda drunk so cannot think them up. its not against the rules to come on here drunk is it (if we behave ourselves)? now there are heaps of other factions it could be, so lets start guessing. personally i think a bosporan kingdom woukd be cool, as would be cyrene. also i think there is a lot of room in bohemia and austria and hungary for a faction, if there were any prominent tribes there during the time. that would also be way cool. everytime i ask about this region i get silence from EB so who knows..... so get guessing and lets try figure this out!

ready, break! (sorry i hav gridiron tomorrow (yes we hav it in australia) and i cannot stop thinking about it!!!!!)!!!!! STINGRAY PRIDE!!!!!!!!