Originally Posted by
billydilly
@ Brivime
Feel free to add names to the list in post #119. I'll update later.
I have used the Rome 2 faction list and added some names. Of course factions shouldn't be called "Proto..."-anything, but it is difficult to find names. If you check out the Rome 2 map here:
http://maps.totalwar.com/?mode=explorer then you will see that there are 7 minor factions in Arabia that need names
Perhaps you could change the geography a bit? It would seem now that the first Semitic peoples started in southern Jordan, then expanded up into Lebanon then across the Euphrates river down into the Gulf. The nomadic component of this population was pushed into the Syrian desert where they domesticated the camel and conquered the Arabian peninsula.
When the Ma'rib dam broke in Yemen, all of the south Arabian civilizations began to migrate northwards and they began to mix with the Arab tribes. They started to "Yemenize" the Arabs culturally and linguistically. Before this migration, the Arabs were virtually indistinguishable from the other Semitic populations of the north, except in the fact that they were nomadic.
I have come up with these names for you and a possible GENERAL unit roster, you may want to add or remove units for different factions as suits you.
Qidri = Kedarites (Qidri should really retain the same name since there is evidence they were trading with Assyrians for long periods of time.) I do not feel Arameans is a suitable name since Arameans were in the north of Syria and Qidri is situated south of Babylonia.
Mascat = Majan (So you know you have Mascat listed twice on the factions roster.)
Nabatea would be fine simply as Bado since this is the region the Bedouin originate from and migrated into the rest of the peninsula from.
Himyar = Thamud
Saba = Ād People
I'd leave Saba and Himyar with the suggested names, good job to whoever found them. If possible merge Mascat with Ād People it is more accurate.
Roster:
Nasi Medinata = Provincial Militia
Nas a'Saif = Light Swordsmen
Ramata = Archers
Ramatan Malk = Royal Archers
Muhimim al Rabb = General's Bodyguard
Saifim = Swordsmen
Ruma Adaim = Spearmen
Gamal Ramata = Camel Archers
Armour should be similar to Assyrians, Camel Archers should be topless with a studded band across their chest.