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Hey, SOTL, check this out
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kinda oversimplifying things. drawing clear borders like this ignores how much borders have changed and common overlap and multi-ethnic societies were
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There would need to be a temporal dimension too to be precise. AOE2 world maps usually don’t do this.
You can still see though that there’s a lot of stuff missing in the Americas, Africa, and Oceania.
Is Huns the one in between Burgundians and Italians?
I think you shouldn’t add Sri Lanka in Dravidians. Sinhalese are not Dravidians.
To be honest, some of them represent broad concepts, others rather specific ones. Here, Dravidians are roughly Southern Indians. It is not ideal I agree. Maybe we’ll get a Dravidian split one day, who knows. Probably going to use once again South Asian architecture.
This map is rough I admit, though it gives a broad idea where the next DLCs should focus.
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well most of northern africa is a desert and most of south america is a jungle. both are inhosipitable and mostly uninhabited
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Fair enough. Dravidians for Sri Lank is like Goths for Russia until The Forgotten.
That’s rougher representation than OP’s map.
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A bit too based on modern borders, but I get it, it’s kind of impossible to do these kinds of maps. But yes, we can see how overcrowded Europe is.
Next DLCs should be in Africa and America, definitely. Afterwards I think we should also have a get a few more DLCs in Asia.
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The Sahara desert doesn’t belong either to Berbers or Malians.
In the “jungle”, there have been South American cultures as well as the more well known Tupis. Inca need somebody to fight too. They’ve been lonely on their continent since 2014. Eastern Europe, Italy and India have relatively gotten way more love than them.
what I mean is “large empty area doesnt imply a place where more civs should be added”
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He has an account. Mention him. @SpiritOfTheLaw1
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Nobody is requesting Antarcticans here.
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It is not a good idea to present AoE 2 civs on a map with modern administrative boundaries.
Personally, I find it amusing to see the depiction of medieval Poles encompassing the exact borders of modern Poland (Voivodeships such as Warmian-Masurian, Lubuskie and all “Pomeranian” and “Silesian” should not be covered by Poles civ at all) xDDD
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It would be possible to encompass much of modern Thailand in the Khmer empire
I can put the entirety of Poland to Slavs if you prefer. They’re Slavs anyway. A single AOE2 map doesn’t feature a temporal dimension you’d anyway need.
Well, modern border of Poland are ironically extremely similar to the first Polish kigndom, including Silesia and Pomerania.
I find it a bit worse regarding the Armenians, since their modern country only covers a small part of the territory they used to inhabit. It’s also ironic that it doesn’t cover Cilicia considering the civ is based on their Cilician kingdom.
Anyways, It’s merely a schematic vision of the geographic location of the civs.
I kind of wanted to keep it empty because I sort of hope we’re going to get Siam one day.
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A bunch of birders aren’t really correct but there is obviously a lot of overlap.
A bunch of borders are to modern for example Poland was in a different position back then it’s only been there since after WW2.
Saracenes theoretically include everything from Andalusia to Persia.
Huns and Goths can’t really be placed anywhere.
The Romans overlap with half of Europe.
I don’t think the Turks should be on the Balkan because they only really occupied that as the Ottoman Empire in the early modern Age.
Not sure why you put the Byzantines in Romania, they never controlled most of it.
It’s one of the biggest real empty spots in Europe because no one else really represents them since they are not Slaves at all.
Hungary was a little bigger though.
The Vikings didn’t really represent Finnland or the Sami areas of northern Scandinavia, but those areas weren’t really developed enough to make for a good future civilisation.
Iceland should be considered Viking land though.
The Armenia in AoE2 is more of the Mediterranean so they could be placed on the coast there instead.
The country of Afghanistan is a modern construct and absolutely doesn’t represent Medieval cultural borders, kinda strange that it was kept empty while everything around it is filled.
Did you mix up Gujaras and Hindustani?
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hey why aren’t the Georgians above Florida?
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