I hope they add Denmark in future as new civilization
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In fact, I forgot that the appearance of this unit suits the Danes.
Seriously, this unit is mysterious 
If we get both Italians and Danes, I hope we will get Poles and Austrians as well. Then Europe will be completed and its greatest empires will be playable 
I would also like more revolutionary Civs to make this option more attractive.
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i guess if we see a cavalry man with a spear and some wings we can say for sure there is gonna be a Poland, but going by the other units showed so far i feel like it would be more obscure.
i just cant imagine the pictured unit to be Italian, it would be very odd for them of all people to have a unique dragoon unit, the infantry man already threw me for a bit of a loop as most design templates of Italians make them more a kind to Spain than anything else but it does admittedly look Italian.
so yeah i think the 2 units weāve seen so far are from different factions. also since we saw them along side their standard variants (musketeer and dragoon) it makes me wonder if weāll see unique units of melee horsemen and pikemen, although that is pure speculation and Iām not sure they got the time to tease more before april 10th, will be exciting to see what we get though.
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April Fools, is my guess.
Icland would not make much sense, unless it would be a Revolution option.
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Norway would make more sense as a revolution civ for the Swedes or potential Danish civ, Iceland didnāt get itās independence until 1944
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Iceland ? Itās really really strange
Drongo during his stream said iceland civ can build some houses on ice & near enemy territory. Iām not sure itās entirely true or not
its an aprils fools, its april 1st.
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so i found this from empire total war:
tagged on a forum as Danish light dragoons, i think it looks pretty close to the picture, even has the feather and the boots/leggings.
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I think 1 new european civilization is 100%
I hope they add 1 new asian civilization too because we only have 3 asian civs right now
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I hope they add both Italy & Denmark .
For new asian civ adding persia is easy because their buildings are similar to the Indian buildings but more islamic with more mosques.
Letās see what will happen next week .
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I would prefer the European DLC to include both Italians and Danes as well as Poles and Austrians - if each of these 4 civs were added, Europe would be complete.
2 DLCs are announced. One of them is 100% Africa, they will probably premiere immediately on April 10. The second DLC may be a European DLC, and weāll probably wait a bit longer for it.
Well, unless the Italians were in the African DLC (like the Portuguese in AoE 2: The African Kingdoms), which could make sense. And the Danes would come in as a bonus to the American DLC, that would also make sense. Austrians and Poles could be a small DLC similar to the Lords of the West, or they would appear alongside two new Asian civs, e.g. Persians and Siamese.
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Austrians are part of HRE which in turn is represented by the German civ. Austrians did historically consider themselves german just like the Bavarians or Saxons so why add them? Are they really that much of a priority in a game about colonisation?
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This game is Age of Empires or Age of Colonization?
We can see that in DE the creators changed the names related to colonization and replaced them with new universal ones.
The AoE 3 period is too interesting to be limited to colonization. If European maps appear, the Austrians should also appear. You are really blind to say that Austria is unnecessary. AoE 3 is also the Napoleonic era, then Austria was very important. Austrians civ is not only HRE. Saint Stephenās crown did not belong to the HRE, and was by far the greater part of the Habsburg state.
If the Austrians should not be in AoE 3, then what should the Danes be for? After all, they are also Scandinavians, just like Swedes. Spaniards and Portuguese are Iberians too, HRE is definitely more medieval. After the Peace of Westphalia, it lost its importance. Austria began to focus in the east. Austrians civ can focus on multinational units and be a defensive civ.
Open your minds. Civ Austrians can give you a lot of new and interesting things. It is stupid to argue that Austria is just the HRE.
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Iāve been lurking on these forums for a while but I felt compelled to make an account to say something here:
Mutylator5553 It is great that you are such a fan of Austria but they rightfully belong within the purview of the āGermansā. So the Austrians had some special things going on? So did the other German states.
Uhlans, while originally ethnic Polish, eventually became a non-Polish unit mostly used by the Austrians. Likewise, a great deal of cards and techs used by the Germans are references to the Austrians.
Likewise it would be a bit silly to focus on Austrian multinational units: The British Empire was āmultinationalā yet when we play as the British we donāt get access to Indian Sepoys or such. Likewise, playing as a Dutch does not give you access to Indonesian troops etc.
Austria was as German as everyone as else and they all saw themselves as German. The continuing confusing on this question is a result of modern people having difficulty comprehending the prevailing āGermanā identity that Austrians had prior to WW2.
A big pan-āGermanā civ is the way to go. It pays great tribute to the contributions and history of the German peoples as a whole during the early modern period.
Austria will never be an independent civ in the game. Poles, Danes, and Italians are the only 3 possible nations left that could be used as full playable European civs in the game.
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But was the Austrian Empire 100% German? You are forgetting about its multinationality and its differences from the rest of the Germans. The Habsburg Empire has two crowns: Austrian and Hungarian. Austria was in the HRE while Hungary was not. If the Austrians do not suit you, how to call this unique civilization - the Habsburgs?
After all, it is the name of the dynasty ruling this civilization. Perhaps Danubians would be a good name for this civ? The Austrian Empire was also known as the Danubian Empire.
Great Britain was a multinational empire, but looking at Europe, it was inhabited only by the inhabitants of the British Isles, hence the name of their empire. These islands are inhabited by English (descendants of Germanic Anglo-Saxons) and Celts (Irish, Scots, Welsh and more). So it is not comparable to the diversity of the Austrian Empire (Germans, Hungarians, Slavs, Romanians and Italians).
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Well because Austrians unlike the rest of HRE or Germany was multinational empire with its unique cultural characteristic.
Germans in the game are more like 30 Yrs war HRE with Prussian needle gunners.
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I recommend to watch my post here:
As you can see not āgreatā deal of cards but 1 or 2 at maximum 
Btw yes, Austrians are Germans like Poles and Russians are Slavs but the development and strategy of Austria was changed after 1648 while the rest of Germany turned inward. And that matters.
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Adding Austrians (or some other name) has the same meaning as adding Danes. If someone thinks that the Habsburg Empire is just HRE, then Denmark shouldnāt be saying that it should be in the game. Someone may maliciously say that Denmark is simply Scandinavia, which is already represented by Sweden.
Europe only needs 4 new civs. The absence of the Habsburg Empire in the game would be too noticeable. There would be a terrible hole left on the map of central Europe. The addition of Austria would also allow for more revolutions. Austrians would have Hungarian and Romanian revolutions instead of Germans. Then the Germans could have two new, for example, Belgians and, for example, āunificationā, which would add new things. Austrians would also receive completely new revolutions, e.g. Czechoslovaks and Yugoslavs - these ideas already existed then, they would be an interesting diversion (instead of American revolutions due to the lack of colonies). Russians [and Poles] could get Cossacks and Lithuanians instead of Hungarians and Romanians (lol). The Ottomans could have Bulgaria and Greece instead of Hungary.
There could also be something that Revolutionary Civs depend on the map. Strange is the Hungarian revolution in Russia in Florida. There should be a pool of Revolutionary Civs for every continent.
Irish, Catalans, Cossacks, Yugoslavs, Hungarians, Czechoslovaks, Bulgarians, Greeks, Belgians for Europe.
There could also be a few for Africa (e.g. Liberia, Congo, Libya) and a new civ - Australians.
Its too similar to other European nations right now. The unique pike thing is a Spanish unique bonus and I feel like every civ is just getting the imperial upgrade for no reason making the Spanish in term of uniqueness worse.
Dont give the Danish posibility to make settler wagon, maybe a one time card for 1-2, but its supposed to be the unique German settler, not the Danish.
The cannonboat is one of the things I also agree with to give them, but the others are a bit meh and like other civs in my opinion.