Somehow I forgot about that one! I’ve also heard it claimed it’s based on one in New York, I think.
There’s a pre release AoK screenshot showing it as the Teutons’ wonder, so I do think it’s plausibly based on the cathedral in Prague.
I think that is from when each Architecture set only had 1 wonder.
They generally moved around the wonders a bit. It was the Goths wonder at some time because “Gothic” Architecture. Which is of course stupid so they changed it.
No. Here’s the screenshot:
It’s from the AoE2 Press Kit, and the file is dated 21 April 1999. Here are some other screenshots from around the same time:
As you can see, civs with the same architecture did not have the same wonder at this point, and Vikings clearly have a different wonder from Teutons.
Why are you determined to disagree with me about everything? It’s very frustrating.
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Nah, I just remembered something wrong.
I don’t think that disagreeing with someone is necessarily a bad thing. We are just talking about a game here and nothing serious.
Except the messenger would scream “But I’m Achaemenid and we got a new architecture” 
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To be fair, that new architecture does look great…
…except for those two houses stacked awkwardly together in the bottom-right! I hate it when scenario designers stack buildings on top of each other, it makes it hard to select them and it always looks crap.
It is far crappier when buildings and trees are just placed in a uniform arrangement like a child made the scenario with no sense of realism.
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Those aren’t the 2 only options.
I dislikes stacked buildings too in most situations.
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Perhaps, but do you have examples of that in official campaign scenarios? Official scenarios do sometimes feature stacked buildings, including military buildings that you actually want to select without accidentally selecting a stacked house or something instead.
I kinda like that cavalry unit in front of the wonder, what were they replaced with?
If I recall correctly, that unit was called Lance Cavalry. It was going to be an equivalent of camels (i.e. anti-cavalry cavalry) but for European civs.
Thats the light cavalry unit.game did not have a whole lc line back then just one unit similar to aoe.
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Even though we said different things, we were both right!
This unit was originally called Lance Cavalry:
In this version, it was a standalone unit, and the Scout was also a standalone unit (with the AoE1 Scout sprite).
But then in a later alpha version, this sprite was used for Light Cavalry, which was now an upgrade of the Scout:
A unit called Lance Cavalry still existed, but had the same graphics as a Camel (and wasn’t trainable/on the tech tree):
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Show me which building is like from Iran in Middle Eastern set.
I can’t. Neither have the time, nor I made the picture.
Their* point is right, although the last sentence “the north ones tend to have more usage of lapis lazuli” is a bit odd if you look at Yazd and Tehran on the map.
(The blue and green ones use lapis lazuli)
I don’t have much time right now, but I found this image showing some Islamic architecture. If it’s accurate, we can compare the game set to it.
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