Faction List for EB2?

[Fondor_Yards]

Far East (Ever since the Yeuzhi left, there's no one to hassle the Bakrians or Seleucids eastern fronts.)

You mean like the Saka?
https://www.europabarbarorum.com/factions_saka.html

[Bartix Elite Guard]

Some lesser mentioned potential factions

Khwarizm - tough mailed horsemen. South of the Aral sea.

Massilia - an imprtant economic centre

Atropatene - Still nominally under Selucid control like the Bactrians but spoiling to break free and later do. Would be another thorn in the side for the Selucid juggernaught.


Caucasian Iberia - fought local peoples like Colchis (expansionism) fought the Armenians under Tigranes, and then fought the Romans.

[Boyar Son]

how 'bout the picts? for another british faction?

[Caratacos]

A bit too early for the Picts i think (well too early to use that name anyway). Caledonians would be better.

[Anthony]

how 'bout the picts? for another british faction?

Picts didn't exist yet for centuries. Caledonii maybe, but even then, they were a single tribal kingdom amid many others that inhabited Caledonia. The Brigantes (in Britain) and the Erainn (in Ireland) would be the most likely in the islands.

[Nemesis91]

First post of a long-time lurker.

I think, after reading the thread, that at least some of the slots should go like this (Disclaimer, I know that the EB team prefers to refer to factions as they referred to themselves, and I do not know how some of the below referred to themselves):

1-Kyrene
To stop the Carthaginian-Ptolemaic desert wars.

2-An Illyrian tribe, perhaps the Ardiaei?
Organised under Queen Teuta, the Illyrians were only subjugated by Rome after forty years and two wars.

3-A Numidian tribe, Massyli or Massaesyli
To stop complete Carthaginian domination of northwest Africa

4-Attalid Kingdom
Ruled Pergamon and Phrygia until giving it to the Romans. Fought off the Galatians.

5-Taxilan Satrapy/Gondhara
To prevent the "Big Blue Monster of Baktria", and because you can't have India without an Indian faction.

6-Chatii, or another German tribe, to offset the Sweboz and the Eastern Europe Domination.

7-Scythian Neapolis/Crimean Scythians/(Bosporans?).
Would be interesting to see a Balkan Hellenised Steppe faction, no?

8-Emerging Faction Yuezhi
Kicked arse when they came onto the scene. As another poster said, the equivalent of leaving Mongols out of M:TW

9-Another Gallic/Celtic/Barbarian Faction:
Preferably in Eastern Europe, to remove Eleutheroi. Didn't the Makedonians get completely pwned by a Barbarian Invasion slightly before the game started?

10-Either a Celtiberian Faction (Arevaci), a British Faction (Eainn) or the other Numidian tribe, Massyli or Massaesyli. Imagine three-way wars over North-West Africa.
Just to "Mix it up"

[Imperator]

@Sarcasm- I meant keep Lusotonnan in but not add another faction. I think three factions would make Spain a little too crowded. The Lusatani have the Carthaginians to fight, but in Britain the Casse have no faction to fight with. (must get awful lonely all alone up there )

@Fonder Yards- Saka are a good start but I always see them bother the Pahlava and Baktrians, but they never migrate far enough south (or if they did, they couldn't do it fast enough) to harass the Seleucids. The Seleucid borders on India and where the Yeuzhi used to be aren't really under attack by anyone (until later in the game) and that doesn't seem right.

By the way, are emerging factions possible in MTW2? If so, shouldn't Bakria be an emerging faction since they didn't rebel until the 250's?

[Krusader]

@Sarcasm- I meant keep Lusotonnan in but not add another faction. I think three factions would make Spain a little too crowded. The Lusatani have the Carthaginians to fight, but in Britain the Casse have no faction to fight with. (must get awful lonely all alone up there )

@Fonder Yards- Saka are a good start but I always see them bother the Pahlava and Baktrians, but they never migrate far enough south (or if they did, they couldn't do it fast enough) to harass the Seleucids. The Seleucid borders on India and where the Yeuzhi used to be aren't really under attack by anyone (until later in the game) and that doesn't seem right.

By the way, are emerging factions possible in MTW2? If so, shouldn't Bakria be an emerging faction since they didn't rebel until the 250's?

Not really. Emerging factions are usually used about factions that enter the map from outside the borders. And that is how we will treat them, although I'm fairly sure we will not have emerging factions, but if the Horde system can be tweaked then we will probably give the Horde feature to some factions.