Since the editor for Chronicles is the same as for AOE2DE. You can use the Indian elephant archers for the Achaemenids…
I wonder if they ever use any normal AoE2 units in the campaign.
You could just give them Persian War Elephants for example. That would probably make the most sense.
The Babylonians in the first level use the Shrivamsha Rider and Sogdian Cataphracts. So yes.
It’s already been confirmed that the story will follow on from Battles for Greece. So unlikely to get an East Asian Chronicles civ for a very long time.
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I think mainly for gameplay reasons, any civs in base AOE 2 being reused for Chronicles will need a bit of modification at least adding the new “either/or” unique techs, and maybe replacing some of the base “generic” units with Chronicles generic units (though not all, some civs shouldn’t get chariots for example, but knights don’t really work for the Chronicles era)
The Sogdian Cataphracts are literally ancient units already, but they are more like 400 AD then 400 BC but cool to know that they do infact use some AoE2 units in the campaign already.
I wonder if the reverse will happen in AoE2 campaigns. Maybe they update campaigns like the Goth or Hunic ones to have some Chronicles assets after they add Romans to Chronicles.
I was thinking about using Chronicles civs in Single player scenarios.
Currently we already have Goth Knights fighting Roman Knights in a campaign taking part in the 5th century.
I think it would be a waste if they would add civs to Chronicles that are basically just copies of AoE2 civs with slight changes (2nd UTs and reskinned units).
If they add new civs like the Germani you can just set the appearance of the Goths to Germani Architecture and you will get the Chronicles unit appearance.
At last I assume that’s how it works. It does work for regional sail, trade carts and Meso monks but Chronicles reskins also change the unit names.
Plus the Two Handed Swordsman and Champion work different so the reskin of those likely doesn’t work. It will be interesting to see.
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That’s odd, although I guess the units are renamed? Sogdian cataphracts (or at least Sogdian cavalry) would make sense for Persians and maybe Medes, but not really for Babylonians, I think.
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Yes, but just called cataphracts, they were’n exclusive to Sogdiana. They should have been the equivalent of aoe2 Paladins for a game set in Classical Antiquity, as the ultimate Heavy Cavalry. I guess the “Imperial Cavalry” is supposed to represent them. Maybe so people don’t get them confused with the Byzantine Cataphracts if they play against aoe2 civs or something.
Agreed, this was an Iranian innovation. So only Achaemenids and other future civs related to the Iranian world/Pontic Steppe (Parthians, Scythians, Armenians, maybe Seleucids, etc.) should have them, much like the Paladin in aoe2 is for European civs.
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As a history enthusiast, I think I’m more excited for future dlcs like this than the medieval new civs
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Oh yeah, they were. It’s likely they just needed distinctive models.
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We have to wait for release, but Chronicles seem like a wonderful idea to take a different path of flavouring AoE II out of the ranked multiplayer (scenarios could still be played, more MP unranked)!
Something I find a bit strange though is the lack of camels. Perhaps they will be added later, but weren’t camels used as a cavalry counter already at the time, for the Persians? Likewise for elephants, actually more used in the Antiquity than the Middle Ages (if at all) by Persia. And in terms of gameplay, camels serve a quite natural role as powerful, fast, cavalry counters, but inefficient against everything else.
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It is odd. The Achaemenids had camel cavalry and also used their baggage camels to keep enemy cavalry away from their archers. They wouldn’t be much use against the Greek civs, though, since they focus on infantry and (in the case of Athenians) archers.
This is less odd. As far as I know the Achaemenids didn’t use elephants much or to any real success, and didn’t field them at all in the Greco-Persian Wars.
There are Alexander Conquest thing. Really wonder what they’ll do at that time. Since if Im not wrong Persians used Elephants 100%
According to the wiki, there will be camel riders as unique campaign units (most likely untrainable), along with units like Cretan archers, Rhodian slingers and Peltasts, which in my opinion should have been regional units. Hopefully in the future this will be changed in future expansions.
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Before Sassanid Persia they very rarely used war elephants. However in battle of Gaugamela they did use them.
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I wonder if they left those out for future Persian civilisations like Parthians and Sassanids.
Thought I think having too many Persian civs would be kinda boring, I’d rather see new civs.
Maybe they just wanted the Chariots to shine more by not giving them competition with Elephants. But that doesn’t explain why there are no Camel Riders, especially since they even made a new model for the Camel Rider just for Chronicles.
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Why are there no hullabaloo now that DLC has released?
The video intro cinematics are so laggy. Any way to fix this? Devs should consider making lower resolutions for weaker machines so it doesn’t crash GPUs…
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I’m still only on the first campaign, but I’m blown away by the Babylonian architecture. AOE2 has never looked so gorgeous! Loving the direction BFG has taken the franchise, and hope we get more Chronicles as beautiful as this. Congratulations to everyone at Capture Age - you’ve breathed new life into the game and delivered what FE have failed to do over their last half-dozen DLCs.
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