These chaps start along the Danube, facing off against the Ostrogothic possessions in Illyricum and Pannonia while their victory conditions, presumably, shall be to take Italy.Quoted from Wikipedia:
The Lombards (Latin: Langobardi), also referred to as Longobards, were a Germanic tribe of Scandinavian origin who in the 1st century formed part of the Suebi. By the 5th century the Lombards had settled in the valley of the Danube where they subdued the Germanic Heruls and the Gepids.
From the Danube region they conquered the Byzantine Italy in 568 under the leadership of Alboin. They established a Lombard Kingdom in Italy, later named Kingdom of Italy, which lasted until 774, when it was conquered by the Franks, although Lombard nobles would continue to rule parts of the Italian peninsula well into the 11th century.
Their legacy is apparent in the regional appellation Lombardy and the term Lombard banking, after the many Lombard bankers, money-lenders, and pawn-brokers who operated in Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
In vanilla BI, the Lombards were an Alemanni clone, with their name given to two units - Lombard Archers, and Lombard Berserkers. Presumably we can find a way to make them slightly more unique...
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