AOE3 lacks a lot of historical campaigns

[MatM1996]

@MUTYLATOR5553

• Hussite Wars
• Fall of Constantinople
• Burgundian Wars
• Seven Years’ War (1756–1763)
• Swedish War of Liberation (1521–1523)
• Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars
• Russo-Kazan Wars
• Dutch–Portuguese War (1598–1663)
• Wars of the Three Kingdoms (British Civil Wars)
• Franco-Dutch War (1672–1678)
• War of the Spanish Succession
• Silesian Wars
• American Revolutionary War
• French Revolutionary Wars
• Caucasian War
• Austro-Prussian War
• Franco-Prussian War
• First Sino-Japanese War
• Boxer Rebellion

Several conflicts appear in the Ice campaign (Seven Years’ War) (although in reality it is the French and Indian War) and Fire (the American Revolutionary War) (literally you have from Bunker Hill to Yorktown)… then the rest will now be included as historical maps in the Baltic DLC of Poland and Denmark…

@ArtisttZ

Nice！I don’t know why AOE3 has so few historical campaigns.

@SirBarnzy1

It’s a mystery. The original devs really shot themselves in the foot by going with fantastical campaigns (maybe they weren’t quite over AOM at the time).

I’m hoping the upcoming DLC will bring at least 1 proper historical campaign, with a few scenarios to accompany.

Yes, it was for development reasons, Ensemble Studios was tired of historical campaigns so seeing the good reception that the AoM campaigns received, they wanted to do something similar for AoE 3 by making more fictionalized campaigns with some historical moments (the siege of Malta in Blood, the Seven Years’ War in Ice and the Bolivar campaign in Steel)… then since people didn’t like it, they came back with historical campaigns in The Warchiefs (American Revolution and Wars against Red Cloud) and The Asian Dynasties (unification of Japan and Sepoy rebellion, the Chinese campaign is fictional after half of it) and already in the DE, the devs preferred to focus on historical battles and historical maps, although I don’t rule out that with AoM Retold they will gather experience with the scenario editor to make campaigns for both games…

@ArrivedLeader22

AOE2 is running out of interesting campaign settings that they start selling Genghis Khan ver 2, siege of Constantinople x2, or the lives of every single Viking warlord. While there is no major RTS that covers important early modern events at all.

Those were already workshop scenarios and the DLC was simply to thank one of the devs… I didn’t even buy the DLC and simply played the workshop versions, which were already translated into Spanish by one of the players…

@ArrivedLeader22

There are diehard fans of certain narrower topics of course but these are always relatively a minority. You don’t have to horde AOE3 pvp players or other pvp players to AOE3, but attract those who like playing campaigns and hadn’t given AOE3 a try because it lacked such contents.

If AOE3 can sell itself as “THE early modern history game” (there are only smaller companies who did it and I believe AOE backed by its own reputation and MS can definitely do much better), it doesn’t have to head-on compete in the already very saturated (and small) RTS competitive pvp market (somewhat saturated by MS itself). But the management of the series seems to be so obsessed with that. The update plans still stuck to that direction. So AOE3 sits in this weird situation of getting the least SP contents as if it is a pvp game, while also getting the least pvp support “because it does not have a big esports scene” (and let’s not forget WE did literally nothing to help with that).

Sure, that’s true… the devs don’t know what to do with the game, make it more PVP or focus on campaigns even if they don’t have that many players…

@dansil92

Yes to all of these things, throw in some african campaign too for those civs, plz and ty

https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/lifetime-of-war-the-swedish-stormakstiden

Yes, one of the admins just launched a Swedish campaign for Gustavus Adolphus and Carolux Rex and it looks awesome…