A case for an Eastern Celtic faction to be in EBII.

[azzbaz]

This is little to no information on Baltic tribe or the Bastarnoz at this time period. And there weren't any powerful, united Baltic tribes.

What about the Aestii(Esti)? They spoke a Baltic language closely related to modern Latvian and Lithuanian also known as Old Prussian. They had an ancient culture even at this time becoming a tribal state at about 1800bc. They became particularly wealthy through their amber trade.
Looking at their pagan descendants of 800ad would give you a pretty good idea as to what they mightve looked like at the games date. And you also got good old archaeology.
They would be pretty primitive, but the more cultures you have in the game add to the flavour so to say.

[blitzkrieg80]

I've made a case for the Aestii for EB2 so no worries- they will not be forgotten by the likes of me (one who studies barbarians of all types, but specializes in the North and Central/Eastern Europe).

the biggest problem is the lack of centralized government and the lack of literary record

[cmacq]

Indeed, a Balt and/or a Balto-Slav polity would provide an interesting regional faction and/or factions. The great problem with any Keltic or Swabian factions is that historically they seemed inherently incapable of any degree of stability beyond the regional level for more than a generation. To have more than one faction within each historic region would be, Ce qui est en anglais, redondant, no?

[eddy_purpus]

GREAT POST MAN





Edvard0