Age of Empires 2 architecture sets:
American: 3 civs.
African: 2 civs.
Central Asian: 2 civs.
East Asian: 5 civs.
South-East Asian: 3 civs.
South Asian: 4 civs.
Middle Eastern: 4 civs.
Western European: 4 civs.
Central European: 4 civs.
Eastern European: 6 civs.
Mediterranean: 8 civs.
You know something is wrong when the Spanish and the Georgians have the same architecture set. There’s just too broad an area for the Eastern European & Mediterranean sets so I think they should be broken down into more.
We have:
Eastern European: Bohemians, Bulgarians, Lithuanians, Magyars, Pole, Slavs(Ruthenians), Romanians.
Mediterranean: Armenians, Byzantines, Georgians, Italians, Portuguese, Romans, Sicilians, Spanish, Croats.
- Bohemians were Central European in Architecture so they should be moved there.
- Bulgarians, Armenians, Byzantines, Georgians were under the Byzantine Empire at some point, so their buildings style were influenced by the Byzantines. NEW: Balkan/Byzantine set.
This will lead to a more reasonable:
Central European: Bohemians, Goths, Huns, Teutons, Vikings.
Eastern European: Lithuanians, Magyars, Pole, Slavs(Ruthenians).
Mediterranean: Italians, Portuguese, Romans, Sicilians, Spanish.
Balkan: Bulgarians, Armenians, Byzantines, Georgians.
As for potential new civs:
Romanians → Eastern European set
Serbs → Balkans set
Croats → Mediterranean set
I know it’s not 100% accurate, and will never be. Bulgaria had a mix of Byzantine, Turkic and Slavic. Romania for example had a mix of Slavic, Byzantine and Gothic style, what are you going to do with that? each country is it’s own thing, so a 100% accuracy wouldn’t work. But this is certainly better than saying that the Spanish & Georgians had the same architecture set, when it wasn’t even close.