Costum Campaings are great

[Louis0108]

@Louis0108

@Louis0108

These are some ideas, suggestions, and things I would like to see more of:

1. • Larger Maps (the larger the better)
2. • Ability to continue the battle after the main objectives are fulfilled. (We have some campaigns like these already, I just would like most of them to be like that)
3. • Regenerating resources are great too
4. • More innovative Units, maybe some of them can one day be in the regular game.
5. • Mercenary Building? It would be nice if we can have a building like AOE3 where some mercenaries can be hired.
6. • More Skippable options and/or more campaigns with alternative endings.
7. • I have a dream of an “Empty Tower” with no defense capabilities unless you garrison any troops or siege engines… maybe with a 2 minimum range plus 2 fire range with lower accuracy because it is not a dedicated defense tower.
8. • More History based campaigns about little know civilizations or heroes.

Another idea for Custom Campaigns would be “Secret Missions”
what I mean is simple side missions not mentioned in the instructions but hinted at by map features or circumstances, examples:

• A “Sacred Garden” in a corner of the map or an Island where fruit bushes are neverending if a relic is put into the monastery, the only hint would be a priest that would tell you when you click on it “make this place sacred”.
• A half-burned village, with a villager that says “Help us” Then if you fix their buildings you get something like: they turn into your color, or special units, or resources bonuses, or a vengeful ally that keeps the main enemy occupied with constant attacks with trash units, etc. (No explanation in the instructions just the message from the villager) May be healing their villagers too with your priest.
• If you destroy EVERYTHING from the enemy you get extra resources or units, even if the instructions only ask for the castle to be destroyed. (you can even hide a unit in an island or forest to make it more challenging to destroy EVERYTHING)
• Or the other way around if you destroy more than the castle and towers a horde of vengeful wolves attack you or the enemy gets all the resources that the destroy faction had.
• Finding “corrals” around your allied or neutral factions with no explanation, but if you send X# of Camels, Horses, Sheep, or anything else you get something great back, like never-ending food donations or faster-mounted units, etc.
• A set of monuments with an empty space big enough for a Wonder, if you choose to build the wonder you get X (Resources, Tech, Units, or anything appropriate.
• If you donate over 5000 in resources to your allies without being asked you get 5 times more back.
• Explore 98%of the map and get X benefit.

By now you get the idea, just side missions not mentioned in the instructions but hinted by the map features and maybe hinted in the instructions with something vague like “Help the Needed”, “Be Brutal”, “Be Good”, “Be Generous” “Be an Explorer” or “Be Bad”.

To add to the list
This has NO historical basis but it would be nice a “Ship” with the same use as a granary. A ship that you can station any place in the water with very slow mobility where fishing ships can drop off food from fishing or fishing nets. the equivalent of a modern Processing Ship.

I wonder if the meta would allow a Battle Mode on ships, let’s called “Beached” or “Anchored” with 1.5 the packing/unpacking times of a Trebuchet, where it would take a few seconds to activate and a few seconds to disengage. but doing so it would give all ships a plus 3 range if they are touching the shores (Beach only, not cliffs or rocky shores) or in Shallows. except for the obvious ones like demolition ships and fire ships.

This Mode would allow longer support from the sea to land units but at the cost of making them more vulnerable to other ships and land units.