preface: i’m a fan of europa barbarorum II, and the la tene celts, and if AOM were to have a celtic civ, i would hope they would either go with the goidelic celts of middle age british isles OR the la tene celts of antiquity continental europe, and not mix them up, which would be a real easy mistake to make.
further: the iron age celts didn’t have their own script, they used both greek and latin script in different areas, so in this list there is the variant of celtic with greek case-endings in latin, if that makes sense. -os instead of -us. -oi instead of -i. there is also french and breton, in for example gargouille and groac’h. it might be smarter in the end to have everything in a latinized form: cernunnus instead of karnonnos, gurgulius instead of gargouille
notes on the myth units: collection of creatures from breton mythology in north-western france & medieval french mythology, as we don’t have much literature at all on actual iron-age celtic culture, it’s the best we can do
last note: “gaul” is a germanic term referencing the romanized celts, it didn’t exist during the time of caesar, so for the sake of historicity it’s better to use galli or keltoi or celt. keltoi comes from people around southern france. gallia, the roman term for the land of the celts, is not etymologically related to gaul
last last note: the atlantean dryad is kind of not atlantean at all. dryad comes from the celtic word for oak tree, if a celtic civ were to emerge, it might make sense to transfer the dryad to the celts, and produce something else for the atlanteans
here is my skeleton:
main god triad:
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Taranos, tech: Cloudcover, disables free myth unit upon age-up for opponents, godpower: Wickerman, cast over group of enemy troops to entrap them in a wooded bramble which then ignites, as attested by Lucan (who says the celts sacrifice enemies to Taranos in wicker enclosures)
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Karnonnos, tech: Coligny Calendar, improved farm harvest, godpower: Nightfall, summons wild-men from a forest
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Lugus, tech: Murus Gallicus, improves building hp, godpower: ?
classical age gods:
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belenos, myth units: korrigan/water spirits
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arduinna, myth unit: boar-riding cavalry, tech: enables ortobelgion eporedoi upgrade from eporeda akus, excellent belgian skirmisher cavalry
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ogmios, myth unit: groac’h/witch
heroic age gods:
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rosmerta, myth unit: carcolh/snail creature with tentacles, tech: hope of avallon, agricultural bonus
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arvernos, myth unit: ogre, & a tech: improves basic batoroi soldier to woklitis rigon, heroic arvernoi soldiers which resisted julius caesar’s romans, strong against myth units
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gobannos, myth unit: goblin & gargouille,
myth age gods:
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esus, myth units: graoully (dragon/wyvern/wyrm)
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sukellos, myth units: werewolf
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epona, myth units: morvarc (sea horse), tarasque (lion-headed turtle that spits poison)
favor generation: sacrifice/passive from druidic college?
human soldiers:
kingetoi, spearmen
batoroi, swordsmen
koxsolatoi: javelin skirmishers
nedes nesamoi: professional retainers
arkoi: aristocratic-class warriors,
gaesatoi: half-naked “berserkers” as attested at the battle of telamon by polybius
eporadoi donnoi: artistocratic-class warriors, cavalry
epades pennoberton: medium cavalry, headhunters
eporeda akus: light cavalry, javelin throwers