Good day fellow EB-fans!
I recently started another Swe campaign. This time I didnt want to go all gaullish to early, so I took also Carrodunum, Gintaeras-Ostan and my Bastarni brethren.. But this time the Sauromatae are very strogn in the east and did alredy break our alliance. I could fight them of for now by hiring 5 mercenary cav (2Celts,1Germ,2HA) but I lost many troops, for now theren are no cavalry mercenaries around and I can't recruit to much cav in the west yet. Even if I could, the Bastarni are quite remote, it would be a pita to rely only on this.
Obviuously I played some swe campaigs before, but I never tried to hold the Bastarni so early on, or the sauros had other stuff to deal with (Armenias, Sakas, Getai and so on).

Regards

Der ZiegenPeter