Ahh, I see. You know what, I will go try out a Sweboz campaign, just because I've always felt so xenophobic against the barbarians that now I feel guilty about judging them without a try. Time to give them a try.

This thread is going to turn into a giant off-topic nest...I can feel it, but anyways here goes: if the barbarians were not all that 'barbaric', how come they never made as many contributions to our intellectual history as did the Romans, the Greeks or the Carthaginians? Why were they never able to conquer and thereafter properly maintain a sizeable amount of territory? Why did they have ugly customs such as human sacrifice, cannibalism, etc.?

EDIT: by the way MisterFred, I have been reading your AAR and I think it's really very nice :D