Aztecs/Incas should be their own civ (sub) group. When there was only Aztecs, it could be bundled into “native Americans” with Hauds and Lakota, but it is actually quite different from the other two while comparatively closer to (though still instinct from) Incas. More specifically:
(1) “Lack of gunpowder” as their theme, which should be reflected by their TC weaponry: Weaponry of Aztec/Inca buildings
(2) A proper temple building to replace the Community Plaza.
(3) A few techs and cards also do not fit very well (like “Forest People/Spirit Ceremony”, “Spirit Medicine”, etc.) and could have a simple rename and reskin.
(4) The pyramid temple was never used as a fort. The American Citadel should have a better model while the current model given to the Aztec temple. And BTW I think “American Citadel” is quite an uninteresting name.
(5) The “warrior” unit also needs a different look, and “warrior” is pretty lame as a regional unit name too.
Native/Royal Embassy is inconsistent. It only has a unique model when on European maps, but uses Native American model on all other maps and looks really out of place. There could be two solutions:
(1) The model is dependent on the map region like the Trade Post (North American, South American, Asian, African, European)
(2) The model is dependent on the civilization like most other buildings.
Several civs (Chinese, Indians, Inca, the Africans) could have “unit combat cards” with the same design but have the muskets and swords replaced by their own regional weapons, like the ones for Aztecs, Japanese and Ottomans. I feel this is a WIP though.
Also as the “natives” now go far beyond native Americans, the European native-related cards could have less of a native American theme but more region-related like that of other civ groups. It feels rather odd when all civs have native cards with their own region’s aesthetics while Europeans have native American ones.
African:
Asian:
European and Native American:
The last one should be given to Native Americans exclusively while Europeans get their own.
Overall I think as the scope of the game extends beyond the “focus on the Americas” (which is why Europeans and Native Americans have the same theme), it makes more sense for each civ group to have themes related to their own rather than “the main setting of the game” (which is gone).
Some if not all revolution home cities should get a new look.
Capitols are very colonial-looking. As we have US and Mexicans as stand-alone civs, the European capitols should get more European looks, preferably unique ones for each civ.
Royal guard units, and revolutionary variants of the regular units (such as the many versions of comanchero) should all get a different portrait but with a similar pose, like some revolutionary variants already have (e.g. dorobant, Wallachian cavalry archer, magyar hussar)
Feel free to add yours.
EDIT: guys let’s limit this to aesthetic changes because gameplay changes would be heavily debated.
I suggested this once. I think it would be possible to create a nomadic civ and pass on its Mongolian content, present in the Chinese civ. In these places, units from the Qing period would be added
The above-mentioned nomadic civ could represent the Turkic-Mongol states.
Yes colleague, the British manor houses should have a unique model to differentiate them from other European houses, the Maltese from the beginning must have had unique models for all their units with uniforms of the order, the Maltese church should have its unique appearance, and well what can I tell you about the Aztecs my friend, I am Mexican and it disappoints me to see how the Aztec units do not look at all like the warriors that are really interpreted in the Mayan and Mexica codices, as well as the invented names that they gave them to most units, I hope the developers investigate more deeply about our culture and realize all the historical errors that this civilization has in the game
“Standing Army” and “Mass Cavalry” icons for Ottoman mosque techs still uses European icons. Minor, but will look good. In fact, they can actually use the old icon for “Tufanci Corps” instead of the current Redcoat icon for “Standing Army”. No new design necessary.
Incans/Aztecs need to be a completely different region from Lakota/Hauds. The two shouldn’t share a foundation - the Plaza concept could be kept for the Inca/Aztecs but the Lakota/Hauds need a new platform.
This would make them a separate category of civilization - Highly Developed Pre-Columbian Civilizations. This would open the way for a full-fledged Maya civ + Chimu or Muisca.
The rider of the native tokala soldier (the one that you can access in campaigns and unknown maps) still uses the old model (the one that is given to the Cheyenne rider model). It should be more similar to the Lakota one.
Chakram throwers despite no longer throwing flaming hoops in DE (a much more accurate representation) still have a “flaming effect” when hitting the target.
The Hussars were mostly young men. They were famously daring and reckless so they either died before they could reach old age, or lacked the stamina to keep up. The general Antoine de Lasalle famously said “Any hussar who is not dead at thirty is a good-for-nothing" (they actually altered the quote in the compendium to imply the opposite).
Since they were mostly reckless young men they were also famous for their flamboyant style with flashy uniforms and cadenette hair.
seeing the hussar portrait up close reminded me how much more interesting the OG unit portraits were… I love the DE to bits but there are two things that make me go back and play the OG every now and then, the sounds and the unit portraits haha
It looks to me like the DE unit portraits are made by paintover of renders of the units, which makes them all sort of samey and unexpressive
I don’t mind that Ethiopians and Phanar share the same monastery model, but it would be nice if the Phanar one had Greek waves or something instead of the Ethiopian tricolor.
The Spanish used houses without clay roofs in their colonies, in dry places, but the Portuguese never used that. Spanish houses do not meet the model of Portuguese and Italian houses. The Turks, in dry lands, used houses similar to those of the local inhabitants, only with slabs, without tiles, but within Europe they always used tiles. I think there should be a different model of houses not just for the British, since they would have mansions. The Portuguese, Turks and Italians should have models of houses with tiles on the entire roof, in 1, 2 or, more commonly, in 4 tiers.
