Quote Originally Posted by Arthur, king of the Britons View Post
Interesting..
remember the respresented doesn´t include a faction per se altough it´s one of my big hopes that sentence hardly confirms the inclusion of the belgae if anything and analysing the teams behaviour prior to this (they abuse the desinformation agents aka as moros) it makes for a stronger case for the chattii being included (someone hates the sweaboz in here it seems )

The Cel;tic invasion/expedition/migration in Greece was a success and a failure. It depends on how you look at it. They failed in conquering Greec, if that was their aim, but succeeded in coming away with a lot of treasure, if one thinks Delphi was looted and treasure taken away by the Textosages to southern Gaul. Still, this resulted in the Galatians entering the history of Anatolia and the merc activity of the east was certainly a success there.
the books that i´ve read claim that the acheans or achaens had already pillaged the temples themselfs prior to the keltic invasion and used the kelts as an excuse for the treasure disapeiring

the scordasci and several other groups where partly celtic as was most of thrakia after the invasion so when we talk about a boii empire one as to presume they are refering to the areas where so many boii where present so the balkans northern italy and the alps are all places where the boii are always mentioned to have been and therefore one must consider those are areas as of a future boii empire and probably victory conditions for them (boiii empire would therefore constitute the balkans without the epirote dacian makedonian kallattis and kh lands being included all the way to the bosphorus strait and maybe even into galatia then the eastern alps and the eastern part of nothern italy)

the sweaboz are ofc screwed with this since now they have competition in their imediate area of influence and expansion and considering they are far poorer more then never a sweaboz player will have to make use of their forest advantage to survive the dacians will have a nice competition for them and the same for the sauromatae and depending if the boii make a push to northern italy or not a more interesting roman gameplay (one can even argue that maybe the boii could be given bologne with a type3 goverment or even type4 but thats for the team to decide)
another issue is the aulete illirians at this time their lands had been ravished by the boii previously so they are probably going to be an easy picking for them unleass an illirian faction shows up but if an illirian faction appears how would they be viable ? they where extremely weakened in terms of manpower even tough they piracy ports and expecially mines (dalmatia (L) ) make them economicaly viable so it might be viable with an extreme use and abuse of mercenaries

overall this a far better faction then many that managed to enter eb1 and will spice things tremendously ingame