Re: World War 0 [Europa Barbarorum II]
Good updates! I like the way that you explain the reasons for social changes among the Celtic peoples and how this leads to a desire for expansion. The intervention by the mysterious stranger is interesting. While I could be wrong, this (together with other hints) gives me the impression that your AAR is a mix of alternative history and a time travel story - with the mysterious stranger as a time traveller, who introduced crop rotation (and seeds from a future time period?) to the Celts long before this would have been discovered otherwise, leading to the changes you describe. If I'm understanding this correctly, I like the subtlety of your alternative history scenario - you haven't had someone go back in history to murder a great general, you've given Celtic nations more food.
When you introduce an unusual word such as kingetos, I suggest explaining its meaning, to avoid the reader being distracted. Maybe for EBII players it's familar (I searched for it and found a link to a discussion in the EBII forum), but it's new to me. To be fair, it's not necessarily bad to not explain things and let the reader work it out from hints, maybe that's what you're doing. Similarly, I was intrigued by the barrel of cheese curds, as I don't know the cultural significance of this. This shows nicely how different this ancient culture was, so it's effective in that sense.
Last edited by Alwyn; September 20, 2020 at 12:14 PM.