Maybe they just had good dice rolls on that occasion 

Thanks Richard. That sounds brilliant.

Sorry if this thread has upset somebody.

I am brand new to MeG and this area is for player discussion. So, I thought we were having a discussion about this concept. I don't get the impression that there is any pressure to get people to do something. BTW the language of my last post was "we" not "x person".

Happy to help - but would need guidance; as I said, brand new; have not played a proper game yet.

Mark

How about a less ambitious approach.

Perhaps picking some of the obvious classics (Sumer, Ancient Egypt, Alexandrian, Various Romans, Carthage and so on). Maybe we could produce a paragraph or two for some of these; with some idea of the evidence. Maybe a dozen or two across all of the lists.

Alternatively, pick on some of the classic campaigns - Alexander, Successors, 2nd Punic war, Atilla, Justinian revival, Arab Conquest, Emergence of the Swiss  etc and list the combatants (real or adjacent) for those. I Can see potential for things like - Carthage Vs Rome with the main combatants allied with and/or fighting - Spanish, Numidians, Ligurians, Gauls, Celtiberians etc; with the Romans adding Hellenistic states - sort of a domino effect(?).

Would really help people new to period.

Yes please.

This is a nice feature of the DBA lists. It shows Allies and Enemies (not 100% certain of accuracy but still useful) for each army listed.

Older versions also had  6 army "campaign" groupings for different historical periods.  e.g Crisis of third century or 1066.

Probably quite a lot of work involved though.