Quote Originally Posted by Sarcasm
Strabo might disagree with you... "And yet the country north of the Tagus, Lusitania, is the greatest of the Iberian nations, and is the nation against which the Romans waged war for the longest times."

Celtiberians were allies of the Romans for a long time, even at the time when war broke out between the Arevaci and the Romans, the rest of the Celtiberians were more than happy to jump on board with the Italians (even though they were the reason Numancia got involved in the war in the first place). Plus theirs was a defensive war, most of the fighting being done on the road to Numantia and at it's very walls. Celtiberians were not an united people in the slightest, unlike most of the Lusitanians which at a later date willingly (or not) fully supported a certain number of powerfull warchiefs that led far-reaching offensives into the Baetic region and even across Gibraltar (with various degrees of success).

I'd also like to mention that the Lusitani were often the only faction that gathered consensus from most of Iberia, being at the forefront of major alliances of tribes, often their armies having warriors from the Callaeci, Vaccei, Vettoni and even from some of the Celtiberi.

I am totally in agreement with you, not as much with Strábo. He is doubtless that both ethnic groups, without constituting a unitary nor homogenous block, gave a strong headache to the Romans. As much the lusitanos with Viriato as the Celtíberos with Numancia: With respect to the Celtiberian wars, it is documented that the magistrates had to change the recruitment calendar because to the Roman young people terrified to fight against the Numantinos. In any case, my opinion is that as much the celtíberos as the Lusitanos must have their own faction in this wonderful mod.
Saúdos.