Any hints for "Porto" AOE2 DLC?

I fully agree, Persians need some kind of own cataphract or cavalry unit.

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A reddit poll, seriously? Those are infested by bots on a regular. I didn’t even get to vote on it, closed too soon.

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Would giving them the Savar as a trainable unit be too OP?

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Ha, I’m nostadamus, I hit two of three campaigns (Babur and Rajendra, Devapala is a surprise, I looked a later Bengali campaign type of the tenth century)…

What’s “Savar”? A unit suggestion?

Indostanos suena raro,preferiría Hindustaníes xd…

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The Somnath temple, also called Somanātha temple or Deo Patan, is a Hindu temple located in Prabhas Patan, Veraval in Gujarat, India. It is one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites for Hindus and is believed to be first among the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva[1]. The temple was reconstructed several times in the past after repeated destruction by multiple Muslim invaders and rulers.[2][3][4][5] It is unclear when the first version of the Somnath temple was built with estimates varying between the early centuries of the 1st-millennium to about the 9th-century CE.[6][7] The temple’s history is a subject of unresolved disputes among historians.[8][9]

The Somnath temple was actively studied by colonial era historians and archaeologists in the 19th- and early 20th-century, when its ruins illustrated a historic Hindu temple in the process of being converted into an Islamic mosque.

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This is what he means, I believe

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Yes, they would have to change the Slavic wonder for the St. Sophia Cathedral of Kiev (obviously not now, but it would be more historically correct)…

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Of course, 1581 the last mission of Bayinnaung and 1598 Noryang Point…

Partially not:

Campaigns in XVI century:

  1. Francisco de Almeida (1476-1509)

  2. Moctezuma (1517-1521)

  3. Bayinnaung (1538-1580/1581)

Historical Battles in XVI century:

  1. Lepanto (1571)

  2. Kyoto (1582)

  3. Noryang Point (1598)

To be fair, development cycle wise, they are probably already working on the rough plan for the next DLC. There’s a good chance the civs are already chosen. While I want to just be hyped about this DLC now and start thinking about the next one later thinking about the dev’s planning there is no such thing as too early.

I agree that Africa probably has the most stuff left to mine now, with America in second place. I can see people’s arguments for revisiting East Asia/China and the Caucasus/vaguely slavic European-Asian borderland as well, but their regional maps feel a bit less empty as the African and American ones. (China has one civ for all of China, but it’s got Korea, Japan and Mongolia to keep it company.)

Maybe it would have more if Ensemble didn’t abandon 1DE immediately after releasing it

Well they will appear as a playable civ for the AoE Online…

Yes, but they didn’t want to leave out the Irish, that’s why they called them Celts…

What about Tibetans, Italians too ? Venise could be interesting in term of naval battle etc…

Of course, in fact an rts where you have armies of domesticated dinosaurs sounds great, it’s like ark, but in rts… although the bad thing is that humanity are barbarians trapped in the Middle Ages and have very few units of gunpowder …

As opposed to polls on here, which are totally not infested by bots (and/or generally have a way too little userbase to make any assumptions from).

(If the thumbnail is correct, 9 votes on Reddit poll is also not bots, but is similar to the forums here, as in - too little information to make assumptions from, even though I agree with the results.)

This one:

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Polynesians and Micronesians are fine, a campaign with Momo creating the Tui Tonga Empire (1200-1500) and another by Olosohpa (1100-1200)…Tongans could reappear in aoe 3 alongside Maori…