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Still deciding what to play first.
Rulling out Romani as i`ll play them once the mod reaches a more completed phase, the first version will only have the polybian reform (marian and imperial for later patches)
Ptolemaioi seems awesome, and i loved them in EB1, the new faction Boii seems a good choice as well. Epeiros is my favorite from KH/Macedon/Epeiros, so might choose it too. Casse was my favorite EB1 faction so it would make sense for me to try Pritanoi first but im not sure i want to play my first campaign with a quite isolated faction.
Theres just too many factions!
Bosphorus kingdom and Pergamon will probably have quite an epic and interesting campaign. Theres also Pontus who i played oftenly in EB1... As a matter of fact the only factions i didnt play in EB1 and probably wont play in EB2 are Arche Seleukeia (just too damn big), Koinon Hellenon and Sweboz. But on the last they added Lugiones and the Boii around it, so it seems Sweboz will be much more interesting!
They also added an indian faction, and Baktria as always looks freaking stuning.(they also added a celtiberian faction, a numidian faction and Nabata)
As a matter of fact if you were lazy to check that link to the Introduction Topic i posted in the OP, here are all the factions in the first release, still 2 slots unused for the later versions, they didnt say which factions will be.
01) Aedui -- Gallo-Celtic faction
02) Arche Seleukeia -- Seleucid Diadochi Kingdom
03) Areuakoi* -- Celt-Iberian faction -
04) Arverni -- Gallo-Celtic faction
05) Baktria -- Hellenistic Graeco-Bactrian Kingdom
06) Boii* -- East-Celtic faction
07) Bosporos* -- Hellenistic Crimean Kingdom
08) Epeiros -- Hellenistic Western Greek Kingdom
09) Getai -- North-Thracian faction
10) Hayasdan -- Armenian faction
11) Koinon Hellenon -- Alliance of Greek Cities
12) Lugiones* -- Baltic faction
13) Lusotannan -- West-Iberian faction
14) Makedonia -- Antigonid Diadochi Kingdom
15) Massylia* -- Numidian faction
16) Nabâta* -- Nabataean-Arabian faction
17) Pahlava -- Scytho-Parthian faction
18) Pergamon* -- Attalid Diadochi Kingdom
19) Pontus -- Perso-Hellenistic Anatolian Kingdom
20) Pritanoi -- Brito-Celtic faction
21) Ptolemaioi -- Ptolemaic Diadochi Kingdom
22) Qarthadastim -- Republic of Carthage
23) Romani -- Republic of Rome
24) Saba -- Sabaean-Arabian faction
25) Saka Rauka -- East-Scythian faction
26) Sauromatae -- Scytho-Sarmatian faction
27) Sweboz -- Germanic faction
28) Taksashila* -- Indian faction
* Meaning NEW faction.