Hey guys so I've been scrolling through the pages of the is formum to guess at what will be the two potential factions and I've come to the conclusion that one of those will definitly be a belgian keltoi faction, however I still ponder about the second one first some general statement from those multiple threads :
- No more hellenistic factions
- No African factions (Numidians, berbers or ethiopians )
- no more Keltoi/Germanic/balto-slavic faction ( first one since one of the two new ones will be a keltoi one, and the others since they are already present)
- Maybe no more steppe faction (This I concluded from checking around not sure tho for western/pontic steppe) Altough I always wanted to have scythian factions I think they're borderline in terms of QS rule for faction (will edit when quote found but IIRC : expansionist and not emergent) the second criteria works well but the first one I'm not sure, they "expanded" north-west black sea but is it enought? I always loved three ways free for alls which in my personnal experience works well both as a challenge for the player as well as interesting results for the AI (even tho it wouldn't be a hellas type three way and more of a scythiano-bosporus alliance vs the big bad sarmatians)
- No eastern/central asian steppe factions (Might be too crowded and I agree with the modders as this region feels more like a place to prepare an invasion of baktria/persia/india rather than a place to set up the core of ones Kingdom/empire as it was the case for most of this region's history)
- No india for obvious reasons
- Maybe persian local statrapy (could work for proper persia I would personnaly love to see a satrapal persia with addition of anshan and parsagades but it doesn't fit in QS' rules (barely exists and not expansive for another couple of centuries if it can even be considered as the same "state?")
- Media Astropatene : this one is also one that would be barely expansive except maybe through revolts but it did exist into the sassanis era even tho it turned into a subject/satrapy at some point after seeing the arsacids as a required allies while facing the encroaching romans (behing able to install a powerfull median state would be great) Big problem though : They might be redundant with the Saka rauka if those decide to go for asia as well as the phalava
- Sataptîs : Illyrian tribe: good and differing roster, quite some place too expand (lots of eleutheroi around)
What else do you think could be added as a faction in the future?
P.S: will edit if my statements are wrong or if there are new statement to be able find that new factions
Legend : QS stands for Quintus Sertorius (might have to edit for grammar too )