Is there another DLC on the way after Return of Rome?
And if not - we really need one 
Can’t wait!
May 16, 2023
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It’s not even out yet and you want another one?
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Return of Rome is the next one, if another is planned we won’t hear about future ones until months after ROR.
Apparently Dynasties of India was quite succesful so it’s likely another is planned, but usually the order comes from Microsoft, not from the devs.
It’s not even really a DLC in the sense that you get to play existing civs with this DLC civs. It’s more like another gamemode, right?
I hadn’t noticed before, but now I can’t unsee it: the Roman has a Roman temple behind him, the Egyptian has pyramids behind him… but the Assyrian has a Roman amphitheatre behind him! Why?! Weird.
Nobody knows, but the “roadmap” said “so, you liked Dynasties of India? We’re taking notes…” for 2023, which some people have interpreted as meaning there will be another DLC similar to DoI.
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I don’t like that the Greek man has been replaced by the Roman man - as if there couldn’t be four characters on the cover… But it’s just a DLC cover, not a game cover.
And when it comes to the Roman amphitheater behind the Assyrian man, there is also an underdeveloped detail on this cover.
Worst of all, we have no idea if that means DLC that splits up some umbrella civ, or if it could mean a big African DLC. I would like to split umbrella civs like Teutons civ, Vikings civ, Slavs civ and Saracens civ, , but there are still areas of the world that have very little (all of Africa, Western Balkans, Andes, Mesoamerica) or no in-game representation (practically all of Africa, Caucasus).
Every single AOE2 DLC as well as the base game had 3 characters on the cover. I guess they couldn’t make an exception.
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The art with 3 characters is iconic of the series. Look at The Last Khans, there were Ivaylo, Timur and Kotyan but no Lithuanian character in sight, although they were the 4th civ added.
Here, putting a greek temple (yes the Romans shamelessly copied the style, they knew good architecture when they saw it) behind the Roman legionary indicates that all culture groups from the Classical World are here. The missing ones are East Asian civs, though they are an obvious geographic outlier.
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I hope one of the future DLCs is focused on the Caucasus region.
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If you look at it in this respect, they could replace the Assyrian men or Egyptian men with some Chinese men or Japanese men. But it doesn’t really matter.
BTW. I hope we will see a new cover for the ancient content at least once or twice (my dream is a Celtic men and Germanic men on cover).
It is precisely because it alludes to Rome and Rise of Rome, in addition to also alluding to the cover of AoE 1 with Nebuchadnezzar II and Ramses II…
Yes, I think the next dlc will be there or in the Balkans…
Time to time… I think that the next dlc of AoE 1 may be from barbaric Europe (Huns, Goths, Germanics and Celts)…
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Are you sure it’s them? Neither of them are in the campaigns – their respective civs’ campaigns each end before they were relevant (in Ramses’ case, before he was born).
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They were the most famous leaders of their respective civs and they also have certain resemblances on the cover…
Ah, I thought you might have a quote confirming it or something. If they are meant to be specific people, I think Hammurabi is just as likely as Nebuchadnezzar, and bares just as much resemblance.
After AOE 5 is released !
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Yes, but from the cover it looks like more Nebuchadnezzar because of the shape of his beard and the form of the crown…
Nebuchadnezzar
Hammurabi
It could be Nebuchadnezzar, Hammurabi, Gilgamesh, Sargon… all we know for sure is that this is a Mesopotamian ruler, but it’s like the stereotypical representation of a medieval European king with a crown and a beard (even Charlemagne is represented with a beard while he actually was clean-shaven in the roman style). Can someone tell for sure, beyond any reasonable doubt, who the European king at the center of the AOE2 cover art is ?
Low-relief carvings didn’t have the same amount of details as paintings from a few centuries ago.
I read somewhere that it was Edward Longshanks.
Longshanks is at the center of Lords of the West, he doesn’t look like the AOE2 king.
Here’s an illustration dating from the reign of Edward II, so he was still in living memory :
I don’t see any distinctive feature on the AOE2 cover art, there isn’t even any heraldry on the king.
EDIT : I got confused between Edward I Longshanks and Edward III
It could be Sargon from the shape of the crown…
Maybe he is a generic king and that’s it…although the crown makes me noise, which country could he be from…besides that he wears chain mail armor…the only medieval chain mail armor that still survives is the one that had the Duke of Austria, Leopold III, who was the grandfather of the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick III, the first of the Habsburg dynasty…
Or else Richard the Lionheart…
Similar, but Edward Longshanks appears in Lords of the West so he can’t…can point to Edward III, who started the Hundred Years War…
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