Four Chinese myth units they should replace

Age of Mythology: Retold Discussion
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I think the upcoming Chinese expansion should replace four myth units with the following monsters that can’t be misssed:

Dragon = Nine-Tailed Fox
VErmillion Bird = Dijiang or Hundun, the chaos monster
Pixiu = Taotie, the monster of gluttony
White Tiger = Byakko, a more monstrous white tiger spirit, but I think they had this in mind, it just looks like a regular white tiger, which is kinda boring, the white tiger could be just an animal running around on the map.

do you think some of the myth units should be replaced?

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While the azure dragon wasn’t a very good way to depict the Chinese dragon, I still think it should be in the game in some way. Either as a God, major or minor, or as a summon via godpower, similar to Gullinborsti or Nidhöggr. Maybe the Chinese Titan could be a dragon, instead of another trampling vaguely-humanoid.

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Also, Monkey King should go. No clue what to replace it with. Maybe some of those creatures from the Shang Chi movie? They are from Chinese mythology too, right?

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It sounded like they were completely redoing Chinese from scratch.
So I think most of the Myth units will be entirely new.

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I really hope that is true, I cannot imagine they forget about the Hundun myth unit or Taotie, they are in recent movies as well, Nine tailed Foxes are also very unique looking, I hope they keep the Qilin/Kirin, it was very good.

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The war salamander is uninspired and boring, it has no basis in actual mythology either.

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I like the unit ideas of this chilly guy who also has a YouTube channel

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Yes my understanding is the Chinese pantheon is ground up brand new if it shares any elements its only because they pulled from the same mythology.

The premium edition description is misleading if it turns out its a touched up version of the Extended Editions Chinese.

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Considering how much they already changed the 4 other pantheons, I don’t think they would delay the Chinese and put them into a separate DLC if they didn’t plan to completely overhaul them.

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Yes, we’ll see how the Chinese turn out, but I expect at least a redo of the entire campaign and a major rework of the mythical units (maybe they’ll add more and change many others)…

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Have they said the campaign is coming back? I won’t be surprised if they ditch it and make a complete new one.

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They never mentioned anything about a campaign.
I assume they will not remake the AoMEE Chinese campaign though.

I sure hope we are getting a campaign though and not just like 3 scenarios like we did with the AoE3DE DLCs.

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Yes, if they didn’t make the Tale of the Dragon campaign, it would be another very similar one…

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I cannot imagine they will not add Taotie and Dijiang/Hundun to the game, the most famous chinese creatures together with Kirin/Qilin.

There is much you can do with Chaos (hundun) and gluttony (Taotie) in a game, so they are solid fit-ins.

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There are four symbols of the chinese constellations:
Azure Dragon or Quinglong
Vermillion Bird or Zhuque
White Tiger or Baihu (Byakko in Japanese)
Black Turtle-Snake or Xuanwu

The first 3 were already in the original game and I think they should stay.
The Azure Dragon doesn’t need much change in my opinion.
The White Tiger was really boring and should look more like a mythical creature, maybe with flames.
The Vermillion bird should look different too, different colors than the Phoenix.

The Black Turtle Snake should be added, maybe in a major god DLC.
Then there could be one of these four creatures for every major god.

The War Salamander should be replaced, maybe the terracotta warrior and monkey king too.

The Quilin and Pixiu should stay.
The Dragon Turtle too, it should look more like the Pixi the Aoe4 map monster.