toughset was having a sale.
I've been playing Total War during my lunch breaks. I tend to play the Bretons... also ran across the old 8-bit barbarian games that came out when I was 5 and never played.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liRBUMvo0sI
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Date BC.334.24 Exact date unknown, world D.122
Variant report: Reithe 01 "Brennus"

Arrival was rockier than expected, While the dating system used by the local tribes is sorta primitive I estimate in this variant Rome has yet to Rise. According to a greek trader they are, at the moment, simply an aggressive republic who is conquering Vitalia (Italy). The Icini have taken me in after a battle with their rivals the Coritani went sour Sling stones and arrows luckily couldn't break my armor
I've been forced to upgrade myself with the available metals of iron and bronze, coupled with gold, silver, and a chrome skin. I could introduce them to steel, but that would deforest all of the island for the charcoal.
Best not to.

As of this report I find myself in charge of a large and growing faction within the Iceni, and they are making up superstitions about me. They are a very superstitious people, but not stupid. Turns out, yes, "barbarians" are just as politically inclined as all other organics. You'd be surprised how simple debates can be when they are solved with swords.
Apparently some of the people who have flocked to my banner have taken to painting themselves with grey and silvery clay.
I'll be trying to give them a written language the druids are nowhere as "hippie" like as we thought. Closer to religious bards than nature worshipers actually. I'm probably going to upset a few when I introduce the scientific method and monotheistic "faiths of light." before when they appeared in our timeline. But these schools of thought need to be created... the rest follows them.

As a last few addenums.
The women here are amazing in bed and kinda cute, not inventive, but certainly nice and rough.
Blood slides right off chrome plating.
It is not possible to punch someone's head off, but the result of trying looks somthing like a pez dispenser.