Talk:Celts/@comment-205.124.233.18-20150513175526/@comment-94.194.231.160-20160405152248

Civilization names are used to represent the who you're playing as quite loosely as opposed to accurately.

For instance, The Britons in AoE2 apparently represent Anglo-Normanic people. However the term Britons is actually shorthand to refer to Brittonic Celts. The Algo-Normans exist because the Normandy invaded the Anglo-Saxons, the Anglo Saxons invaded the Romans land (while they were basically AWOL protecting rome) and the Romans invaded the Britons. In other words, Anglo-Normans have next to nothing to do with Britons aside from owning over half of the land that should technically be Wales.

The other problem is that you're thinking primarily of modern Celtic civilizations, whereas back then the Celts had their hold over a much larger amount of Europe than just what exists today. If they didn't limit the Celts to just Brittonic/Gaelic Celts, then they'd basically have a civ that just represents most of Europe, and then the campaign would get messy trying to define people, and so on and so forth. Basically as a game design choice, it makes sense to only have the civilization represent the areas where the Celts were best represent as opposed to everywhere they represent.