Age of Empires needs to return to its roots

[SchwarzeGarde49]

@CitingOregano34

It’s a country that split into multiple parts, generally the same culture, and at the end of the conflict the country just became one State again.

Sounds like the Roman empire situation
So unless you want to explicitly portrait the Roman Gaul part (like eg in New Custom Campaign "Aegidius" is released!) - i really don’t see enough justification to have them in aoe2 either, going by that argument. 89 years (or 74 if you count until 550 when Rome was Roman again) vs 60 years

Imo, if Rome gets to stay in the game, so do the 3K - simple as.