I am just for adding Thebes as a faction and calling it a day for the Greeks, honestly. If Iberians and Germans are too much of an umbrella factions, we can separate them sometime in the future, as well.

Given that Thebes would complete the list of hegemonic Hellenic factions at the time of the game (which starts with Athens and Sparta, and ends with Macedon, although there’s Epirus but it was not the same), I was wondering what’s the plan for the future of the Greeks. To take as much as possible into account without introducing more similar factions, what about having Leagues? They would be similar to @Genava55’s idea of Coalitions (for the Germans, which should be extended to Britons, Gauls and Iberians), but the difference is, while all tribes in a Coalition would be treated similarly (I proposed an initial tribe selection to start grounded on something, but that would make no difference on primary buildings, techs, etc), in a League one truly controls said faction (which already are quite fleshed out), and League choices would give (very limited) access to other “minor” Hellenic factions (there could be choices for the “major” ones as well, one could play Athens and have Thebes as part of the League for example). One has to be careful not to bloat a faction though, but the problem to solve is not to have more similar playable factions, while not leaving out certain factions from the game (and maybe the generic Greek template could still be used for stand alone minor factions when needed, which could also form their League).

Go ahead.

@wowgetoffyourcellphonemay we incorporate them into Classical Warfare AEA? I'm also wondering if there is a way to incorporate parts, without adding a full civ (only because it seems sometimes there are too many civ options ) Allies to someone, merc for anyone etc?

Indeed! Maybe a challenge for @Alexandermb?