Quote Originally Posted by Sdragon
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't TA talk about factions that didn't quite make it in EB? Wasn't Massilia and the Bosporus Kingdom mentioned as almost had beens? I think I recall it being mentioned that each would have started with 2 provinces each and that made them desirable Still my memory isn't that great, perhaps I'm wrong.

Lets not forget that the unit limit is still at 500, the 10 new factions would either have to use a lot of units used by other factions. Have a limited unit set. Or pluck units from already done factions to make the room.
Well, Massilia and Bosporus might be easier factions to do since they'd probably have a handful of unqiue units, but mostly be Hellenistic/Steppe or Hellenistic/Celtic. I could see Massilia have accessing to the common Western Greek units, maybe some mixed culture units, and probably more Gallic units than the other factions could recruit, maybe even the better armored, more professional units. More important is the Goverment 1/2 area. I could see Type 1s for the Greek cities in Gaul and Iberia, with Type 2s over Gaul and maybe Celtiberia. It would definately change the dynamic of Gaul and make for at the very least an interesting "what if" scenario.