Certainly reminiscent of the Maschio Angioino (Castelnuovo) in Naples. Of course, all castles change over the centuries, and this one is no exception. For example, the towers were initially square, and only in the second half of the 15th century did they become round and completely made of piperno (a typical rock of the area).
To imagine that it has become the base for the Middle Eastern set is a bit strange indeed.
Indeed. Maybe this was planned for Byzantines? And then whole set got it.
BTW, AoE wiki says this -
The Middle Eastern Castle resembles a simplified version of the Castel Nuovo in Naples, Italy, but with decorative elements from the gates and round towers at Saladin’s Cairo Citadel. The merlons are Moorish style, like those in the Almoravid Qubba.
should’ve made one with Archaemaniid architecture
They are different civ from different game mode.
Isnt achemenid architecture in chronicles very heavily influenced by Babylonian architecture?
Archaemenid will not fit for Medieval Persian
It’s basically the same. Like a lot of Achaemenid culture, heavily inspired by the Babylonians.
of course the devs could make this moddable, they just haven’t yet because they (probably correctly) don’t consider it a priority
no, my argument is that I like Persians with their current set, Genghis Khan is just a memorable example. I am opposed to changes being forced upon me in a classic game in general
Ok. Unfortunately you can’t do anything about that. Hundreds if not thousands changes have been made to this classic game.
Maybe the Persians are representing only the Westernmost Portion of Persia? That’s why they have Middle Eastern Architecture?
Judging from Wonder Location.
The Architecture is probably supposed to be a shared architecture set in the future.
Wonderful. Where did you find it?
I found it in the wiki. It needs to be updated to add the new civs of recent DLCs
Saracens are mostly based on Egypt, yet their wonder is all the way in Iraq. It’s more likely that the wonders are just picked on if they are relevant and look cool.
For AoK civs, I think the wonders were chosen based on whether they were in a book called Great Architecture of the World that the ES devs happened to have access to. (Source: https://archive.org/details/age2designdocument/page/n51/mode/2up)
Cool map, although I disagree that the Koreans’ and Britons’ wonders are supposed to be specific buildings.
But they are still supposed to be in Briton and Korea though, right?
Sure, but on this map they seem to be in the locations of Chichester Cathedral and Hwangnyongsa respectively. Those are sometimes claimed to be the basis for those wonders, but personally I think both are just generic buildings.
I’d say it’s more likely if they look cool and exclusively if they look cool, because we aren’t 100% sure what is the Frankish wonder (a lot of people just accept that it’s a Czech church, but others claim it’s totally based on a French one) and the Teutonic one is a fairly unknown (I think) German church. And the Briton one before DE was a German church as well.
Claiming the 500th Comment on this thread.
