Not really it will be the same situation as pri thi vi raj.
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Hopefully, someday we will get a true Celtic campaign outside of the tutorial one.
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I hope it comes with new scenario editor objects like new trees, herdable and huntables. Almost no new natural objects have been added to the game since the DE release.
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would love to get campaigns that involve Lithuanians, Mongols, Tatars, Magyars, Georgians, Poles, Turks, Spanish and Burgundians.
I think civs missing a campaign are the target here, and I hope so. Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Magyars, Mayans, Slavs, Romans, Turks, Vikings.
At some point we could include the Celts.
I agree East Asia focus (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans) is the most likely.
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Chinese new year is on February 10th. It lasts for 7 days in China. So the announcement on the 23rd is not even in the celebrations. Even the Taiwanese who do 10 days and the announcement still does not fall one of the day sof the Chinese New Year.
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My guess is that if civs like the Chinese and the Byzantines get a campaign, it might be accompanied with a civ rework. E.g. adding gunpowder units to the Chinese, or Varangian Guards/cheirosiphons to the Byzantines. But I suspect you wonāt actually have to pay for the reworks.
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Some things about Chinese censorship are extremely overestimated. Total War: Three Kingdoms sold extremely well there and yet it included Nanman factions, Nanman being part of the āFour Barbariansā which lived in modern day China and were not part of the Han people (or rather Huaxia, at the time). Plus, the game itself is entirely about China not being united. As for AoE2, Genghisā campaign has a scenario in which you invade China and another one in which thereās a Uyghur ai player, the Chinese historical battle depicts a civil war and Le Loi is all about fighting off a Chinese invasion. So it seems the devs have already risked Chinese censorship and it didnāt happen. The most risky thing would be adding Uyghur or Tibetan civs, especially if they fight the Chinese at any point in the game, but I doubt there would be any problems for the Tanguts, Khitans or Jurchens who arenāt associated with a modern day independantist movement.
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Hopefully, someday weāll get a true Byzantine campaign outside of the one based around a fictional family.
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Basil II, Heraclius, Justinian, Alexious Kommenos, are all great options for the Eastern Romans. Wonāt mind Justinian being Western Roman and one of the other three as the Eastern Roman one.
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Google the info before arguing. It starts Feb 10 and lasts 15 days. Ends on Feb 24.
1.Turks: playable faction: Turks
- The siege of Constantinople, 6 missions on the various events of the siege, such as the naval battle on the canal, the assault on the walls, the first bombardmentsā¦
enemy factions: Bysantines/Italians/Vikings
- Viking : playable faction : Viking
- Viking campaign: Conquest of England/Vengeance of Ragnarās sons/ War for the throne of Norway, Sweden, Denmark
enemy factions: Celt, British, Viking
- Crusade: playable factions: French, British, Crusader, Byzantine/Berber/Saracenic
- Crusade campaign: 6 missions based on a famous crusade siege or battle, each with a different playable faction.
enemy factions: Saracens/Berbers/Byzantines/Crusader/French/British/Italian
- Chinese : playable faction : Chinese
Chinese campaign: 3 kingdoms, Mongol invasion
New unit added: Hand cannoneer
New Building added : Tulous (circular village) : 100 woods and 50 stones, 20 dwellings and can garrison 10 villagers
enemy factions: Chinese, Mongols
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Your assumption is a new civ?
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I donāt need to google to know about this. Thanks.
By my count these are the civs without campaigns
Celts (if you donāt include the learning campaign)
Chinese
Japanese
Koreans
Magyars (Not counting Vlad Dracula 2&5)
Mayans
Romans
Slavs (Not counting Vlad Dracula 3-4)
Turks
Vikings
I canāt imagine weād get ANOTHER campaign for a civ that already has one, before all these civs get one, so presumably the upcoming campaigns are among these civs.
And while it doesnāt sound like weāll get new multiplayer civs, I could imagine maybe getting campaign only civs for Vlad Dracula and El Cid.
Consequently IF we were to get a ācastileā campaign only civ for El Cid, I could also imagine us getting a new spanish campaign. Something much later than El Cid.
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Then I google it for ya.
āChinese New Year 2024 falls on Saturday, February 10th, 2024 , and celebrations culminate with the Lantern Festival on February 24th, 2024.ā
From one of numerous sites.
In addition, the developersā blog LITERALLY talks about the broadcast for the New Year.
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Please notify the CCP that they should have 15 days of holidays.
The new year reference does not necessarily mean Chinese New Year. It refers to 2024 as a new year.
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Late to refer 2024 as a new year when it is Feb 23 already, huh? The only context where it can be referred as one is Chinese new year. I can agree however that different Chinese think different about it, some accept just the Feb 10, some take one week and some take the whole 15 days. Same we Russians think different about Maslenitsa the holiday of spring and butter - some take it as 1 day and some take as 1 week.
I think it will be three campaigns. Which three civs these camapigns will go to, Iāll assess.
Byzantines - We already have Bari (and itās great). Not a āproper Byzantine campaignā? Read about the Italian catepanates!
Celts - Possibly, but even though it is just a beginner/tutorial campaign, William Wallace is still a campaign in which the Celts are represented so Iām unsure how high priority a Celts campaign will be
Chinese - Can see the devs saving a Chinese campaign for a (semi) Chinese split DLC
Japanese - Very possible, if they donāt get shoehorned into some kind of Pacific themed DLC
Koreans - See Japanese.
Magyars - Europe has been done to death DLC-wise, and I certainly donāt know what themed DLC their campaign can be shoehorned into without the devs looking like theyāre scraping the barrel for European civs. So very possible, I think.
Mayans - Americas DLC, I think
Romans - Will happen eventually but I think thereās plenty of Roman campaigns in the AoE franchise eventually! Give the campaigns to civs who have been in the game longer, I say
Slavs - I can see a DLC focusing on them being split into the Balkans civs, and them being renamed into something more āRussianā sounding
Turks - Could happen, but I can see their campaign coming with a Muslim/Middle Eastern DLC, or even an African one (namely Suleiman the Magnificent who led campaigns in Africa)
Vikings - See Magyars
So with that, my money would be on Magyars, Vikings and one of Japanese/Koreans.
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If anything Korean and Japanese campaigns should be either introduced in a specific campaign focused DLC without any new civs or they could be introduced in a new East Asian DLC with Jurchens and Khitans as the new civs.
I donāt see them introduced in a completely irrelevant DLC like one about SE Asia or Oceania, since historically (in the period covered by AoE 2) they had no connection whatsoever with those regions.
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