Faction speculation thread

[Dargaron]

Just the one, and Parthia should have just the one too.

I haven't heard this. Do you know/remember where the Team has said that the Pahlava will only have one province? They had two in EBI.

[Future Filmmaker]

I'm using the EB1 map. They are using the new one with different borders. The old map has a "Nabateae" region which would obviously have belonged to the Kingdom. It was just unnaturally big.

[Dargaron]

Except, Moros' map shows the Nabata with only a region that roughly approximates Sinai.
The province includes a small part of the region of Nabatea in EBI, but the important parts of
the province (such as the port, city and the like) are colored Eleutheroi.

[Future Filmmaker]

Except, Moros' map shows the Nabata with only a region that roughly approximates Sinai.
The province includes a small part of the region of Nabatea in EBI, but the important parts of
the province (such as the port, city and the like) are colored Eleutheroi.

Whoopty do. If you feel like redrawing the borders and making your own map, feel free to contribute. The purpose of it is to show the most likely faction possibilities and it won't be in that part of the map anyway.

[Splenyi]

I haven't heard this. Do you know/remember where the Team has said that the Pahlava will only have one province? They had two in EBI.

Well it should be only one province, it's just a satrapy

I'm using the EB1 map. They are using the new one with different borders. The old map has a "Nabateae" region which would obviously have belonged to the Kingdom. It was just unnaturally big.

I think the two regions must have been incorrectly named then the left one should be Nabateae, but I have no idea what the right one should be.

[Visarion]

hmmm I'm expecting a surprise in the Steppes or in Britain...

[Deze naam is niet echt]

I suppose Massalia would be interesting: a greek enclave in southern gaul. Not quite sure if the were expansionistic, though.

[Visarion]

no they weren't... they supported Rome...

[Future Filmmaker]

So did Pergamon and Bosporan.

I don't support Massalia though. Honestly, I don't really support Pergamon either. While yes, they are a rump state of the Attalids, what did they really do in the end but consistently side with others against the Seleukids? Most states in the Asia Minor did. They were at their greatest territorial extent when under Roman hegemony.

[bojieh]

I've always liked them for some reason. Might be something to do with parchment thou

[AtlasGR]

Last faction may be an Illyrian faction. That seems the best choice to me for historical importance and filling the map properly.

[bojieh]

Sorry if it offends someone, but can someone summarise their historical importance in that period, other than piracy around the end of the republic and Illyrians serving as legionaries extensively during the early empire?

[Wulfburk]

IMO there wont be a illyrian faction, at the mod time frame they were basically under pyrrhus ,i'd bet more on a thracian faction.