Faction List for EB2?

[Moros]

I think the Xiognu are going to be in! :)

[eddy_purpus]

I think the Xiognu are going to be in! :)

who are dos?
:P

Mongols?


Really :D

tehyre gonna be in EB2 XD?

[HunGeneral]

I think the Xiognu are going to be in! :)

Do you mean the early Huns?

I suspect this is a joke (a good one by the way) ..... or a sarcastic hint on the Sakas/Sauros or another steppe faction?

[a completely inoffensive name]

Cyrenaica under Magas of Cyrene. Just read the dudes wiki page "(r. 276 - 250 BCE)". I don't care if that seems like the most idiotic reasoning, but i just feel that the EB team would not pass up the chance for such a unique faction.

EDIT: If it turns out I am right, I want everyone in the revealing thread to put in a little praise for me.

EDIT 2: Also, Syracuse because people are guessing that one as a sure thing and I want for this post to be at least half right when it is all said and done.

[bobbin]

I think the Xiognu are going to be in! :)

Nah it's definitely the Yayoi.

[Brennus]

I think the Xiognu are going to be in! :)

If the Yuezhi aren't in it the Xiongu definatly won't be, chronologically and topographically its unrealistic. Plus there is the problem of culture, the Xiongu were an Altaic people not Indo-European, you would need a whole new culture slot not to mention new voice mods (for a language which I don't think has any modern descendants).

[bobbin]

If the Yuezhi aren't in it the Xiongu definatly won't be, chronologically and topographically its unrealistic. Plus there is the problem of culture, the Xiongu were an Altaic people not Indo-European, you would need a whole new culture slot not to mention new voice mods (for a language which I don't think has any modern descendants).

Either thats the driest sarcasm I've ever heard or you failed to spot the joke of a EB team member suggesting a completely inapropriate faction.

[Brennus]

Either thats the driest sarcasm I've ever heard or you failed to spot the joke of a EB team member suggesting a completely inapropriate faction.

You must forgive me, I have been writing about Scythian and Sarmatian culture for the past fortnight and so my mind is a bit frazzled

Well I think its an given that the Belgae or an part of the Belgae will be in. And most likely there will be some at least some other like Celt-Iberians, Boii and another Germanic faction.

Boii seem like strong contenders. My only other worry is putting even more factions around the AS. AS games are hard enough as it is so a powerful Poleis like Pergamum worries me, although you never know it could be a nice buffer to Makedonia.

Full support for a Goidelic or another British faction!

[ziegenpeter]

Full support for a Goidelic or another British faction!

Will you do the research?

[Hax]

I raise you the Tokugawa Shogunate, Moros!

[Brennus]

Will you do the research?

May as well, gonna end up writing about Iron Age Britain and Ireland at some point on my course.

Obviously a Goidelic faction would be extremely difficult to create both from an archaeological perspective (first person to find the Irish Iron Age gets a medal!) and historical perspective but surely a British tribe like the Brigantes would be a feasible thought (just a thought, Im not one of these people who supports a British faction in the same way people have been supporting a Jewish faction), I just wish the Picts had emerged a few hundred years earlier than they did.

[Ludens]

Oh but we merged the east hellenic culture slot with the semitic one, or something I believe. Anyway blast now you guessed that other factions the Yuézhi as well!

I raise you the Tokugawa Shogunate, Moros!

[Moros]

If the Yuezhi aren't in it the Xiongu definatly won't be, chronologically and topographically its unrealistic. Plus there is the problem of culture, the Xiongu were an Altaic people not Indo-European, you would need a whole new culture slot not to mention new voice mods (for a language which I don't think has any modern descendants).

Oh but we merged the east hellenic culture slot with the semitic one, or something I believe. Anyway blast now you guessed that other factions the Yuézhi as well!

[eddy_purpus]

Oh but we merged the east hellenic culture slot with the semitic one, or something I believe. Anyway blast now you guessed that other factions the Yuézhi as well!

[Blxz]

Oh but we merged the east hellenic culture slot with the semitic one, or something I believe. Anyway blast now you guessed that other factions the Yuézhi as well!

Is that actually true? I really don't get the point of why culture slots are a limitation. Sure the UI is changed, and the city models look different and there are other things tied to culture, but I really don't get why its such a thing that if a faction was needed, you had all the info for them but they were of a totally different culture to the current ones that it would be a problem to just lump them in with something already there. Do people care THAT much about cosmetics that they would erase a historically significant faction?

[oudysseos]

Is that actually true? I really don't get the point of why culture slots are a limitation. Sure the UI is changed, and the city models look different and there are other things tied to culture, but I really don't get why its such a thing that if a faction was needed, you had all the info for them but they were of a totally different culture to the current ones that it would be a problem to just lump them in with something already there. Do people care THAT much about cosmetics that they would erase a historically significant faction?

Well, yes it is kinda a big deal. Family member portraits - do you want a Roman face in your Gallic family tree? Strat map models, cities, UI- they are all part of de-homogenizing the original product. And there are lots of historically significant factions, about which there is plenty of material, that already fit into the culture slots that we have- so why should we go looking outside the parameters? Hell, we could probably do 9 or 10 Celtic factions alone.

Maybe we are...

[eddy_purpus]

Well, yes it is kinda a big deal. Family member portraits - do you want a Roman face in your Gallic family tree? Strat map models, cities, UI- they are all part of de-homogenizing the original product. And there are lots of historically significant factions, about which there is plenty of material, that already fit into the culture slots that we have- so why should we go looking outside the parameters? Hell, we could probably do 9 or 10 Celtic factions alone.

Maybe we are...

You already said it!
There is at least one celtic faction !!!

[hekk]

You already said it!
There is at least one celtic faction !!!

Well I wouldn't be surprised by that, the Celtic tribes spanned across most of Europe really. I don't see how they couldn't have atleast one more Celtic faction.

I really can't wait til they reveal one though (if they do, that is). :p

[Apázlinemjó]

I think the Xiognu are going to be in! :)

And Napoleon with the Grand Armée! I just can't wait to fight the Macedon Phalanx with firearms!