New factions?

[Moros]

I don't believe so, there were two populations of Atrebates either side of the channel prior to the Gallic Wars. Two things suggest this, firstly we are informed by the historical sources that Commois fled Gaul to Britain in order to join his own people, considering that Commios had been waging a succesful Guerilla campaign by recruiting his own people in Gaul that suggests that Atrebatic peoples were present on either side of the channel. Secondly the archaeology of southern Britain does not suggest that there was a large scale migration of new peoples in the small timescale of the Gallic wars, thus there must have either been only a few (very very influential) individuals or the Atrebates must have been arriving in Britain for a long time before the Gallic wars.

You might be right, I'm no specialist in this part of history. Just seemed to remember something else. I don't have time to look into this, so I'll just thrust your judgement.

[B-Wing]

I'll just thrust your judgement

Regarding the Atrebates, assuming they were present on both sides of the English Channel at EB's start date, would it be reasonable to represent both groups as a single faction? That is, were they under the same leadership?

[Moros]

I don't think any of us think they were already on both sides of the channel at the game's start. Possibly they weren't even in the region the Romans called Belgica yet.

[Brennus]

I'll just thrust your judgement.

Your a braver man than me, lol.

With regards to B_Ray, although it is possible that they were under the same leadership, as represented by the tale of Commios, I agree with Moros that they were unlikely to have been present on either side of the channel in 272BC. Personally I favour a date of arrival of c100BC in line with the Gallo-Belgic type C coinage and the funerary evidence from Westhampnett in West Sussex.