AOE3 lacks a lot of historical campaigns

Age of Empires III: DE III - Discussion
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I don’t know if people have noticed but the “campaigns” of AOE3 werw renamed to “story mode” in DE (because they weren’t real campaigns of course). This is a good chance to break away from the previous campaign formula and re-define “campaign” for AOE3:

  1. It does not need to have a full fictional storyline
  2. It does not need animated cutscenes. I can personally do with ppts like in AOE2 or AOE4 sultan campaign.
  3. Even the length can be shorter, considering making campaigns are expensive.
  4. No need to worry about overlaps with previous campaigns

So I think a good form would be biographical mini-campaigns like AOE2 ones but could be shorter. Each has 3~4 scenarios centered on one important historical figure.
Historical battles are nice but a series of campaigns may make players more attached to the character and the story.

Some good candidates:
Most current civ leaders
Bolivar
Geronimo
Oda Nobunaga
Albrecht von Wallenstein
Yongle Emperor of Ming
Zhenghe’s voyage (the real one, not the one that goes to Americas)

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