Campaign/Civ DLC I Would Throw Money At

Age of Empires IV IV - Discussion
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Just like past entries, the logical way to introduce new civs is to release campaign packs that center around additional civs. These are the kinds that I would throw money at:

Eastern Asiatic Expansion - Japan + Korea (Offense vs. Defense)

  1. Japanese Campaign: Starts off with Mongol Invasion of Japan and ends with the end of the Sengoku period. Faction uniqueness would include slightly cheaper non-heavy infantry (spears, bows, and matchlock ashigaru) but more expensive but more damaging MoA (dismounted samurai) and “knight” (mounted Samurai), mimicking the ashigaru-based conscripted army Japan had. Japan would be, overall, a very aggressive civ.

  2. Korean Campaign: Starts off with Goguryeo-Sui/Tang wars and ends with the end of the Japanese invasion of Korea in 1598. The campaign would always have Koreans in defensive situations, highlighting the defense-focused nature of the civ, having to fight its bigger neighbors for most of its history. Unique units would include 2 artillery: castle age hwacha (a better version of bees) and imperial age age shingijeon, a rocket artillery that can shoot above walls (something bombards can’t do). the rest of the unit roster would be ordinary.

Near East Expansion - Ottoman + Byzantine (Early game dom vs. Late game dom)

  1. Ottoman Campaign: Chronicles the rise of Ottoman Empire. First half of the campaign would focus around conquest of Byzantine Empire and the second half with wars with Holy Roman Empire. One of the unique units would of course have to be janissaries. Another would have to be the Turkish Bombard. A late-blooming civ with strength stacked in later ages.

  2. Byzantine Campaign: Chronicles the constant struggle to recover Rome’s former glory. Would include offensive wars with Georgia, Bulgaria, and Abbasids. Would end with successful defense of 1422 Siege of Constantinople. Unique unit would be some sort of near-ranged unit that throws devastating Greek Fire grenades. There would be greek fire-shooting ships too. Aggressive early game civ with strength stacked on the front end.

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I really hope we get campaign dlcs, but the ones in the base game are quite sophisticated (not the gameplay) and probably expensive. Hopefully they rather go for more campaigns with less presentation value, but therefore more gameplay value. I don’t think we get more than one campaign per year, if they want to do it like the original 4. Btw. Would also love to see campaigns for HRE, abbasid, dehli and chinese

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The video’s in the campaigns are neat, but I feel they are over done and they take away the focus on the actual campaigns. They are not very good in my honest opinion and become repetitive, the only one I enjoyed was The Battle of Hastings.

Future DLC I hope they expand the horizon a bit. There is alot of room for improvement, AOE2’s campaigns are still superior.

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Beyond the Cape DLC
Portugal and an Indian or Persian civ.

Campaigns of Afonso de Albuquerque in the Indian Ocean:

Albuquerque advanced the three-fold Portuguese grand scheme of combating Islam, spreading Christianity, and securing the trade of spices by establishing a Portuguese Asian empire. Among his achievements, Albuquerque managed to conquer Goa and was the first European of the Renaissance to raid the Persian Gulf, and he led the first voyage by a European fleet into the Red Sea.He is generally considered a highly effective military commander, and “probably the greatest naval commander of the age”, given his successful strategy — he attempted to close all the Indian Ocean naval passages to the Atlantic, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and to the Pacific, transforming it into a Portuguese mare clausum. He was appointed head of the “fleet of the Arabian and Persian sea” in 1506.Many of the conflicts in which he was directly involved took place in the Indian Ocean, in the Persian Gulf regions for control of the trade routes, and on the coasts of India. It was his military brilliance in these initial campaigns that enabled Portugal to become the first global empire in history. He led the Portuguese forces in numerous battles, including the conquest of Goa in 1510 and the capture of Malacca in 1511.

During the last five years of his life, he turned to administration, where his actions as the second governor of Portuguese India were crucial to the longevity of the Portuguese Empire. He oversaw the expeditions that resulted in the establishment of diplomatical contacts with Thailand through his envoy Duarte Fernandes, with Pegu in Myanmar, with Timor and the Moluccas through a voyage headed by AntĂłnio de Abreu and Francisco SerrĂŁo and laid the path for European trade with Ming China through Rafael Perestrello. He also aided in establishing diplomatic relations with Ethiopia, and established diplomatic ties with Persia during the Safavid dynasty.

Throughout his career, he received epithets such as “the Terrible”, “the Great”,“the Lion of the Seas”,“the Portuguese Mars”, and “the Caesar of the East”.