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[Swabian]

Oh, and welcome to this forum.

thank you

the yuezhi didn't (or most likely did not) play any role on the EB map until, as you allready said, 100 years after -272 or so. but later, they conquered baktria and bacame a very rich and quite powerful realm. one can of course argue, that they are halfway out of the timeframe and even might have not appeared on the EB map at all, but on the other hand, they could have appeared earlier with almost the same probability, since they knew of the alexandrinian realm and (it's parts nearby) and they had enough reason and ability to attack baktria during earlier times, didn't they?!

yah of course the skythian peoples cannot be seen as a uniformity or something like that, but i didn't mean all the folks in the whole steppe, i meant certain tribes that would be of relevance in this case,but any further discussion here would be irrelevant, since the scythian peoples are not suitable for a playavle faction (which i never suggested/stipulated). there has been speculation about the new faction being the skyths...pfwfwhmb

i think the massagetae were allready absorbed by the sarmatians in the EB period, so what could be the new faction then if not the turkomans or turkwhatever ...hmm
edit: but actually... i'm not sure, but there could have been a small group left that still carried the massagete identity. they could try to reunite the old confederacy in order to rule the steppes again. this would be an ideal initial condition for an interesting faction. hmmmmm... but i remember that someone said it wouldn't be a barbarian faction. but i mean.. quisque barbarus est aliquo ;)