Way too early for signups on this one, although our usual guiding principle is "if you paint an army for a campaign theme and let us know in advance, we will move heaven and earth to make sure you get to play it."
Here are the very rough draft armies for the Campaign Theme:
- Early Nine Bows Libyan
- Syro-Canaanite or Ugaritic (multiple armies)
- Mitanni
- Middle Assyrian
- Kassite and Later Babylonian (this is the Kassite Kingdom of Babylon)
- Amurru and Early Aramaean
- Midianites and Early Arab
- Middle Elam (Kingdom of Elam)
- Early New Kingdom Egyptian (multiple armies)
- Viceroys of Kush
- Minoan and Early Mycenaean (multiple armies)
- Hittite Empire (multiple armies)
- Various Wild Tribes (might be in or might not, depending on interest; we'd certainly like at least a couple of these guys):
- Gasgans
- Zagros or Anatolian Highlanders
- Kassites, Hurrians, or Nairi
- Urnfield Culture North Europe
The Urnfield Culture North Europe is not actually on-map at this point (it is starting to develop in Poland), but we have no real evidence as to the tribes directly outside the Mycenaean Greek and Hittite spheres in what is now Thrace, and the pre-Urnfield "Early Bronze Age North Europe" army list does not seem appropriate to what evidence we do have. So the Urnfield list here represents the Phrygians, Lycians, proto-Illyrians, proto-Thracians, and whatever Greek tribes were still outside the Mycenaean palace culture military system.