Quote Originally Posted by Redmeth
I noticed that the rebels won't attack you until you build roads, as soon as the roads got completed they always attacked me.
That could be it. Roads were always one of the first things I built, so that would explain why they attacked me. However, like I wrote, I could dissuade them from attacking by moving nearly all my units a bit up the road. Not sure why. Anyway, your starting army is not quite as powerful as the stack of Caledonian skirmishers (Balroa), and anyway you cannot afford to go to war with the Eleutheroi because you will lose almost all your trade income.

One thing I forgot was that in EB 1.0 the Casse can recruit naked spearmen. They are wimpy units, no wear near as tough as the gaesatae, but their presence scares enemy infantry, which is useful to break uncertain enemy units.