Why they didn’t give war elephants to Achaemenid?
They didn’t use them in the Greco-Persian Wars. If I recall correctly, they’re only known to have used them at the Battle of Gaugamela, and not with any real success. War elephants were more of a Sassanid thing.
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I think I have seen Elephants in one scene of the movie 300.
Would be cool to get the Sassanids in the future.
Since they are not just called “Persians” that could certainly be an option.
Oh yes the famous historic documentary 300!
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The aoe2 Persian are basically the Sassanids.
I would be more interested in the Parthians. They also fit the timeline better and had more interplay with other possible future chronicles civs.
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LoL yeah but the movie is what inspired this DLC.
Otherwise Sparta and Athens are way too small to be packed together as distinct civs along with the Achaemenid Empire.
The size difference is mind boggling unacceptable. Yet it is what it is due to the perception built by that movie.
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Well, the movie was popular, but this conflict is like on the most famous from Antiquity. It’s even taught on schools.
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The DLC is based on that only
It’s not taught in our schools outside Europe.
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not really, the latter missions are from the Peloponnesian War
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Not too far away is it? What are you trying to argue?
That this is not a Hollywood tie-in
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You’re right.
They work perfectly well for Chronicles if you turn the gunpoweder units off. That also includes their new UT though.
Kinda the problem with Goths too. I really hate that they have Hand Cannons, especially that it’s their only fully upgraded unit and that it’s very vital for their late game unit composition against many other civs.
Yeah those would be nice. Selucides too.
Chronicles has so many possible civilisations even if it sticks to just strictly 500 BC - 500 AD it could easily get the same number as AoE2 already.
Ironically you are not playing as Spartans in the Thermopylae scenario of the campaign.
But I bet there will be many people making 300 inspired scenarios. I’m tempted to make one too.
Not the only war where a massive Empire tired to conquer a seemingly tiny country and failed.
European and European colonies are still very much big Greece fans because it’s the first time in History that Europeans did something relevant.
A lot of people like to ignore all the massive Asian and African influences that Greek culture had.
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If it were not then there should be only one Greeks civ rather than having Spartans and Athenians separate. Those two were the same Civilization. It’s the hollywood movies who make them look worlds apart.
they are two different civs because the latter part of the campaign is based on the Peloponnesian War, a conflict between Athens and Sparta. It’s just the scope of the DLC, nothing more
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And yet we don’t have any such tiny country outside Europe covered as a civilization in the game.
Using a single Greeks civ with Red and Blue Player Colour would have been enough to represent Spartans and Athens respectively.
I would like to see a Seleucid civ that merges Persian and Greek elements, could be interesting
Romae ad Bellum already has more than 30 civs. Yeah, there is potential for many civs.
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Yes, they could, but making a entire campaign about red and blue smashing each other is lame
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Indian campaigns was exactly like this before the DLC. Indians fighting Indians.
Still American and African campaigns have very less civ diversity.
Yes. Tiny nations outside of Europe are almost never represented in the series.
Lakota are kinda of a big exception.
Though Greeks did eventually become very important since they conquered the whole of the Persian Empire!
They had influences as far as helping the spread of Buddhism into China.
I don’t think so.
Sparta and Athens had a lot of big differences between each other.
Also they were more then just 2 cities. Both of them had an Empire under them. Many other cities, even beyond Greece itself where under their control or in some kinda of dependent relationship.
I would like seeing such detailed differences in other parts of the world too.
I’d love to see different Japanese clans as individual civilisations for example.
But aren’t we all happy that changed?
and that was lame, want to repeat the same mistake?
And this is why a lot of people, including myself, want more civs and campaigns from these regions
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