2026 Poll: next civs after Baltic Powers results

Age of Empires III: DE III - Discussion
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Poll closed, results and analysis. People had only 3 votes for their fav civs. Sample, 145 forum users.

Rank Civ % Region/Culture Continent
1 Persia 76 Central Asia Asia
2 Siam 23 South-Est Asia Asia
3 Korea 22 Est Asia Asia
4 Brazil 22 Post-colonial European civ South America
5 Morocco 17 Arab Country Africa
6 Austria 15 European civ Europe
7 Oman 13 Arab Country Asia
8 Zulu 9 South African natives Africa
9 Mapuche 8 South American natives South America
10 Burma 8 South-Est Asia Asia
11 Argentina 6 Post-colonial European civ South America
12 Afghans 5 Central Asia Asia
13 Colombia 5 Post-colonial European civ South America

If we go traditional DE expansion DLC, we would choose 2.

By pure rank: Persia and Siam would be the more voted

By region: Persia and Afghans would add the most % (81%) because the far margin of Persia. Persia and Oman would add even more (89%), but I put different labels on them (and you know, labels always have some kind of arbitrariness)

By continent: Asia seems the most popular choice, followed of South America.

Following that pair, I guess Korea and Burma could be a popular one (Sorry, I forgot Vietnam on the poll, and I’m aware about the Korea discussion about if they fit or not as a major power). Morocco and Oman could be also interesting if they don’t include the later with Persia.

Keep in mind that The Baltic Powers could have been the last DLC. But if you like discussing civs, feel free to discuss it here and not on a random topic of the feedback of balance.

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The most hated civs between Chinese and non-Chinese people here on the forums, especially Burmese which gets belitteled because it got colonized at the end of AoE3DE’s timeline while conquering all of Siam like twice.

Hopefully the poll won’t affect much since some good potential civs always get neglected like Afghans.

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I like how Zulu represents general users/players’ only knowledge of Sub-Saharan African civilations…

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I am a Chinese player, and I have been speaking for Myanmar for a long time, hoping to let some people know that Myanmar is a very powerful country in early modern times.

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I warned in the previous poll topic that I didnt know much about sub-Saharan African history. Kongo and Mutapa, Asante or Sennar could be nice additions, but they didnt got much votes

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Tbh, I think this was a “marketing” issue. By calling them Shona and linking them to Zimbabwe, i think they would have got many more votes

However, I’m more surprised at the lack of votes for Kongo, I thought they were more popular.

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Yes, they’ll do one of each, but on a regional level… a popular civilization (Persia/Tatars) with a less so one (Morocco/Oman/Afghans)… then in East Asia, Siamese with Burma and Korea with Vietnam…

Of course…the Burmese in AoE 3 literally start with Bayinnung or after his death…

I don’t judge them, the Zulus are very popular (the same thing happens in the Civilization saga since Civ 1)…:man_shrugging:

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Just like Siam represents general users/players’ only knowledge of Southeast Asian civilizations :upside_down_face:

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Kongo / Kongo empire is often overlooked due to certain issues not polite to discuss.

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So, Persia was the forum’s popular choice for a new DLC civ. That’s not surprising honestly.

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Anyone suggesting a “post-colonial” something obviously doesn’t understand the concept of the game.

Let me phrase it simply: the game allows the player the play the colonizer OR the colonized.

The “post-colonial” is basically your post game, or late game, if you want.

So you can suggest a “pre-colonized / colonizing” Brazilian civ, for example (was long enough). Not a “post-colonial” Brazilian civ. That’s it.

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Sure, not here to discuss such labels. Everyone understands what Brazil means.

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A Brazil civilization would need to incorporate both pre-independence and post-independence content. Post-colonial is just a term used in the poll to separate cultures/regions from American natives and European civs. The Brazil civilization would probably follow the Federal States age-up system that the USA and Mexico use.

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Yes, also because of Civilization…:man_shrugging:

Yeah, as a last resort, just call it “Federal civ” and be done with it…:man_shrugging:

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Not all South American states were/are Federal States.

But as I said, it doesnt matter

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Burma is probably extremely unpopular because it’s locked on a perpetual civil war nowadays so that’s pretty much the only thing you ever hear about it in the news if ever.

You don’t know the absurd lengths I had to go to find military history books about Toungoo/Kounbang and whatnot.

I’m more surprised Vietnam didn’t even make it into the discussion though.

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That’s unfortunate…The more I’ve read about them the more it made me realize that they fit AoE3DE perfectly, especially with Bayinnaung, kinda lame how AoE2’ Burmese has a Manipur unit instead of a Burmese one (Perhaps it would be a perfect card unit).

Feels like one of the civs along with TLC and Koreans (Not the War Wagon lol) that would’ve been great for AoE3DE.

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I want Vietnam just so we can get their tiger vs elephant combat colleseum as a wonder.

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I did mention it in the original thread. To me, it’s actually one of the civs I’d most like to see.

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Manipur Cavalry would perfectly fit (AoE3) Burma, in the same sense that Cossacks are part of the russian roster or Oromo Cavalry in Ethiopia, they were a fundamental part of the early modern Burmese army.

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