It seems you skipped over a very important fact I stated: in the 2nd century BC the Segestani, a Pannon tribe clashed with the Romans. There is no mention whatsoever of other, non Pannon, Illyrian tribes showing any type of importance in the era, besides the Panonns. Not to mention: many important metal processing and mining areas were under their control.
Now let's look at the Illyrian tribes:
You can clearly see that southern Pannonia is inhabited by them. The Dalmatians would be however, inaccurate for this period as the Dalmatae didn't try to conquer, or invade other territories they mainly remained in a single area which was ultimatley conquered by the Romans in 76 BC (there were 3 Dalmatian wars from 156 BC - 76 BC). Plus having the Dalmatae represting Illyria would be again a bad idea because they would be too close to Macedon, Epeiros and the Getaii, thus would be destroyed early in the game, and without celtic/iranian support units they would be just a blend of Thracian, Greek and Illyrian forces.
However we could debate endlessly the question is, is there place in EB 2 for a Pannon/Illyrian faction, or are the slots already decided and closed?
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