DLC focussed on Campaigns coming soon!

What we want and what will happen are almost always 2 different things.

However, I have a guess. If they call it “campaign-focused expansion”, then they are only planning to add campaigns, not civilizations. What civilizations do we have without campaigns? That’s right - China, Japan, Korea. They also said about February 23rd as the New Year, and this day falls on one of the days of the CHINESE New Year.

We literally have no other options here because the other civilizations without campaigns are the Vikings, Slavs, Maya. They can’t fit into one DLC and would be a very strange choice. Therefore, I am absolutely sure that we are talking about China, Japan and Korea. It is high time. Also if devs are focused on campaigns only, they could make a little longer, like 6-7 missions. East deserves that.

I also want to say that I don’t believe in the Turks’ campaign until a separate DLC about Islamic peoples is released. For now Turks have 2 historical battles and 1 mission in Dracula campaign.
As for the Romans - their card has been played too many times, as many as 4 of their campaigns have to be transferred to RoR, and in the campaign of Alaric and Attila everything that could be said about late Rome has already been said. I don’t believe that a campaign will be released for a race from RoR somewhere outside of RoR. I’m not against yet another Roman campaign, but it would be too confusing a scheme.

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Does this mean also that Chinese won’t be split?

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Well, if they said that it is campaign focused and no civs, then nobody gonna be split this time. In addition, you need to understand that DLC about China should take into account the interests of the Chinese market. And they REALLY don’t like it when they are told that their empire is not united. They don’t even have time zones. If I was making something about China and for China and didn’t want to piss off the local fan base, I wouldn’t split up China.

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I don’t think Romans will get a campaign because that would mean making DLC for a DLC that not a lot of people own

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Romans would be kind of awkward, because they’re an expansion civ. On the other hand, Gurjaras are playable in a base game campaign but not otherwise without DoI, so maybe it wouldn’t be a problem.

Personally, if it’s three campaigns, I’d ideally want Koreans, Japanese and Chinese. I’m not sure they’d go all in on east Asia though.

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They always go all in. One about just India, the other about just Caucasus, the other just about prince Jagiello…

interesting point. I think it’s likely that they will stick to base game civs for paid DLC.
they might just extend the romans DLC with a free campaign, they are adding some of the aoe1 campaigns anyway, right?

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Or they could lock some content to owning DLC A and B, like they did to AOE3, which owning both USA and Mexico gives the player an extra Historical Battle

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That would make sense that the next DLC with campaigns alone would focus on the Far East - since the division of the Chinese umbrella civ threatens to be banned on the Chinese market, i.e. the one that could have the greatest interest in this topic.

Maybe at least these three Far Eastern civs will receive a decent remake and a new Architecture Set.

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chinese campaign + Eastern asian units unique model pack
turks campaign + Middle Eastern units unique model pack
mayan campaign + Mesoamerican units unique model pack

or

chinese, japanese,korean campaign
units unique model pack
chinese, japanese,korean campaign + units unique model pack

for 3 steam subs

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How is adding civs like the Khitans, Tanguts or Jurchens enough to get a game banned in China?

While I think an East Asian campaign DLC is the most likely outcome, it’s certainly not the only option. If there are no new civs being added, there’s no requirement for all the campaigns to be in the same geographical area. (Even if there were new civs, the precedents of AoC and FE exist). Assuming that every civ gets a campaign at some point, I think it’s more likely that unrelated civs get lumped together at some point (e.g. Mayas and Romans) than that every region gets a dedicated DLC that’s more than just a single campaign. But I could be mistaken, and you make a good point with regard to the Chinese New Year. Pretty sure that Chinese at least will be among the 3 entries.

Are you referring to regional skins, or entirely new units as a DLC? If it’s the latter I’m not sure that would work as traditionally units have been available in the Editor even for DLCs you don’t own; the only lock has been on the civs themselves, and the campaigns.

Regional skins as a DLC

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You don’t know China well. This is a freakin empire with imperial ambitions, not a democratic country with freedom of speech. They are irl in the same state as many civs in the game. They once made Plague Inc. banned because in the tutorial, the epidemic started in China.

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There is the possibility of the campaigns being made for current civis again rather than the missing once.
Eg better byzantine one or proper slavs/rus campaign.

And so are other civs that are already in the game. One that includes people that China is currently oppressing, but the game hasn’t been banned yet.

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Mongol yuan dynasty was in power at that time but we have both mongols and chinese ingame.Other than tibet and uyghurs I highly doubt they care about anyone else from the surrounding areas.

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You still don’t get the point, lol. I can’t explain it more clear. Where you from?

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Regardless of whatever the campaigns will be. I think they should make new civs free, or charge maybe $5 for them. It’s just the campaigns that make the cost and I can’t see why we need to pay $15 for playing new civs. In 5 yrs it will be like what, $20?

Romans pose an interesting question - do you need to own the new DLC, or both the new DLC and Return of Rome?

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