In my opinion the polish civ should include Cossack/Ukrainian units as well.
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I don’t know if it is correct to call them simply “Poles”, because the commonwealth had an important Lithuanian component, for some reason they were officially called Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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Yep, they should get Registered Cossacks as part of their line up.
They should also get a full Cossack Hetmanate revolution civ too.
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Certainly could. Poland could potentially have a Lithuania, Polish, and a third which varies by age between Russian, Ukrainian, Cossack, and possibly even German option.
Based on USA and Mexico giving cards upon age up, and Ethiopia and Hausa giving techs upon age up, choosing units upon age up for 2 civs made up of basically multiple countries/cultures kinda makes logical sense.
Great to hear there will be new civs. I don’t care AT ALL what ‘nationality’ the civ is, whether it is from Europe or not. I’m surprised anyone cares about flags so much.
I’m interested in cool looking units and unique gameplay. For example Malta gets top marks in both of those areas, 10/10. Cool unique units and no low skill trickle resources/resource enclosures. A shame that most people ignore Maltas cool units and make lame xbows instead (but you don’t have to play that way, I have never made a single xbow as Malta, 1500+ hours of playtime on AOE3 DE).
I like the dismounting Bulgarian units in AOE2, they tried to bring that to AOE3 with the mounted infantry, except those units don’t seem to be cost effective against any unit at all, despite being cool. Maybe they can bring something like that to the new civs. I also love the flaming camels from AOE2, man that unit was fun to make and use! The AOE2 rolling bombard cannons are cool as well as are the rams and siege onagers.
Oh yikes, I hope there won’t be an emphasis on water, I hate water. I don’t even make boats when a map like Horn forces me to, I’d rather just lose the game (which is what happens since there is no food on the map).
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At least the DLC goes to shows that even now a Minor Civ that represents
Funnily enough the Danish were the ones to completely obliterate the Polish-Lithuanian navy in 1627 ending all notion of PLC being a power at sea (before then the PLC had beaten the Swedes im naval battles). Dane OP, ha.
On a serious note, I hope the Devs will also use the time between the DLC to rework the naval aspect of AoE3.
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As someone who loved AOE 3 as a kid but hasn’t played it in years now (more focused on AOE 2) I think that Denmark and Poland-Lithuania is a much better addition than Italy and Malta; Denmark even had some colonial possessions in the New World (The US purchased the US Virgin Islands from Denmark) I think it’ll be a cool DLC. Though I do think that past this it’d be a stretch to add any other Euro civs other than maybe Austria, and even there I think say Brazil should be a sooner addition.
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Oddly there seems to be no naval power civ now.
The re-assignment of naval cards makes all civs roughly equal in strength on water, just with slightly different specializations.
Like in the past some civs have both offshore support (range) and naval gunner (damage) and some have neither. Now most have one of them.
My feeling is that they are treating naval as its own balancing picture in parallel to land, instead of an aspect in a larger picture alongside infantry, cavalry, etc. (like in aoe2 where some civs are “naval civs” just like there are infantry civs or cavalry civs).
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Frustratingly predictable that it’s PLC and Denmark-Norway, even more European civs after we already got two. Extremely disappointed in the showing and announcement, that was a huge misstep. Glad that we’re still getting content for this game.
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all factions are going to be balanced first and foremost for standard maps, aka with little or no water. Denmark will probably get unique ships but i doubt they will be any more water reliant than British, Dutch or Portuguese. they should be playable without the need to use water.
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Today,we have The new dlc is Baltic for Denmark and poland’ second European dlc for 2024 Late Official release I so happy 
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Yes please. (20 characters)
Partitions of Poland,please.
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lol, they will just reuse the already in game Cossack cav unit. no need to overestimate their efforts make dlc
Because it’s all about colonization, and the slaughter of natives Americans. Microsoft is woke, the livestream was 100% woke.
EDIT : “tuer les natifs” in English phrase was banned. lol
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I really wanted Persian and Koreans… what a letdown
It’s called Age of Empires, AOE3 is set during the time peroid where Imperialism was at it’s Zenith. When the greatest and largest empire ever on earth was created.
So why do they focus on Age of Empires 2 and Age of Empires 2.1?
Yes. But it’s not AoE3. It’s AoE3:DE. The scope of this game is vastly broader than it was originally when the game was about discovery and colonizaiton of the New World.
Now everything goes, from the period of 1500 up to 1900.
It was heading in this direction after the release of The WarChiefs expansion. None of the new civs were colonial powerhouses or capital E empires. It’s just a general framework, ultimately- very limiting. They ran out of most of empires like that in the base AoE3, especially when taking ‘interesting’ and ‘recognition’ factors into account.
What do you mean by that?
Because it’s a business and Age of Empires 2, whether we like it or not is the evergreen product, easy to create content (in comparison), has brand recognition for years and has the best coverage.
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Somebody doesn’t get it.
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