There are already dolphins, although I’m not aware of them appearing in any official maps.
One more recent addition I missed: “monkeys” that look like chimpanzees. I’m not sure which civs would have encountered chimpanzees (Malians at least, I think), but more importantly – chimpanzees are not monkeys! This is basic stuff, how can they not know this?!
Yes, also… I said that because it’s a bigger attack and more distinct…
Yes, that’s why I always liked the AoE 3 maps, they are very alive and you see things always happening (animals, guards and natives moving around and also stagecoaches, trains and commercial fleets on the trade routes)… that’s why the AoE 4 maps seem very simple to me, although they are just now adding things like points of interest and dynamic weather (AoE 2 could also have points of interest, but I already see dynamic weather as difficult)…
With the arctic hares, I suspect they’ll mainly be used as a replacement for other types of bunnies/hares. Arctic hares aren’t the only white bunnies (even if they technically aren’t bunnies).
To be fair, all apes (including humans) are nested in the Old World monkey clade. So, in a technical phylogenetic sense, apes count as monkeys. That said, the new “monkeys” in AoE2 are clearly based on chimps, so why not just call them chimps?
Probably true, but then why not just call them hares? They can have two different coloured versions of the same animal, like we have for cows, horses, etc.
Wikipedia tells me they’re separate families (hominidae and cercopithecidae), but maybe it depends which taxonomist you ask. I was talking about regular English rather than taxonomic terminology, though.
On topic of coloured variants, we need black and dark brown horses like in the game and bulls that are herdable/huntable.
Also player controlled horses (like the Hunnic Horse) should have a collar like herdables imo.
And riderless horses and camels should give food as well, maybe including Hunnic Horse as a sort of reward for killing it.
This. It’s really hard to tell which player a horse belongs to.
Agree, the controllable Horses and Camels should be visually differentiated, while the “Wild” variants would retain the current sprites. The same goes for the Hunting Wolf, found on at least one regular map (Sherwood Forest).
I’d also like to see such change for cheat units War Penguin and Monkey Boy. Photonman and VDML look the same for every player, too.
There could be female variants of certain animals, like Deer, Ibex, Lion, Ostrich, and (Asian) Elephant. And male (Wild) Chickens and Cattle.
Well half of my suggestion became real.Chickens kinda look like jungle foul.
We need proper herdable bulls, peacocks and hippos.
Already in the new chronicles dlc.
Przewalski’s horse
rhino
bear
jackal
Rangifer tarandus
Siberian Roe Deer
We already have bears & rhinoceri.
south america needs one animal i’m not sure is around atm, capybara
They even already have capybara models, since there’s a mod that replace trebuchet projectiles with capybaras.
We need two types of tapirs (Brazilian and Malayan), capybaras, leopards, hunting cheetahs, dogs a few types, and the addition of lionesses. Rhinos could do with another model, bulls which exist as cart pullers already, and yaks.
also they can just turn aoe3 DE animal models into sprites for aoe2, all assets are made already, just use em
Dolphins are already there, and finally, we’ve got Whales, too.
AoMR as well.
this is a list of animals that could be added quickly because they are present in other Age Games. I did not list South america, because the Devs already know what is needed there.
North america:
Bighorn Sheep
Musk Ox
Caribou
Elk
Pronghorn
Grizzly Bear
Walrus
Pheasant
Alligator
Cougar
Coyote
Bison/Buffalo
Moose
Toucan
Asia:
Giant Salamander
Yak
Macaque
Musk Deer
Nilgai
Saiga
Serow
Orangutan
Snow Monkey
White Tiger
Africa:
Sanga Cattle
Zebu Cattle
Giraffe
Baboon
Hippo
Honey Badger
Hyena
Leopard
Warthog
Ethiopian Wolf
Units
War Dog
Water:
Herring
Great White Shark
Orca
Bass
Carp
Catfish
Cod
Mahi-mahi
Mola Mola
Sardines
Squid
Tarpon
Beluga Whale
Humpback Whale
Minke Whale
Since we also have a Australia real live map it would also be nice to add Kangaroo, Cassowary, Emu and Dingo.
