Im surprised but happy theyre not included japan or korea for marketing.
Rus theme similar at vikings sure.
But where are byzantins?
DLC’s
Byzantins, Persians, Turks
Aztecs, Spanish, Incas.
Vikings/norses, celts/irish/scotish
Japanese, Koreans
Romans and persian elephants, drakkars and turtle ships, berserkers, samurais, ninjas, conquerors and jaguar/eagle warriors are really nice for sell them separate…
In the fan preview announcement video we can see in the tournament video that the blue units are french because of the “fleur de lis” in the back of the spearmen and in the swordsmen shields.
They seem pretty confirmed to me. I even initially thought that the norman conquest campaign was a french one. Maybe it ends up using both civs.
Yeah, agreed. They probably use both britons nad frenchc in that campaign.
Add Persia!
They have been the largest empire the world have ever seen and had a huge impact on the history of the world. The first laws of human rights was written by Cyrus the Great that later laid the foundation for the world. The Parthian empire also introduced the world with horse archer military doctrine and the technic of Parthian Shoot. Parthia also introduced Cataphracts which latter inspired the western knights.
Thus, The Persian dynasties has always been a very cavalry heavy nation. Consisting of heavy cavalry and horse archers 
Bro if they add Persia it will be sasanian empire under the khosrow parviz not parthia .
Ones that need to be added in the future through DLCs if not in base game(not all of course but this is a list)
Japanese
Koreans
Vikings
Incas
Mayans
Ethiopians
Malians
Berbers
Spanish
France
HRE
Italians(would have a Dynasty system similar to Chinese except they are called Republics)
Khmer
Malays
Rajputs
Sikhs
Bulgarians
Byzantines
Kievan Rus
I’m sure there’s more
Guys they don’t necessarily have to add a viking or french civ; They may create special Gaïa unit like the norse and middle eastern swordsmen in AOE2’s editor mode.
I do think they will add the French but nothing is certain yet.
But the leak says there will be French. Just no Vikings.
There are viking longboats in the campaign video (at 0:17):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qojnBjUYzUU&ab_channel=AgeofEmpires
Yeah, but I’m just saying that the French are in the leak, so no worry about them regarding the leak info.
How it is in reality - who knows.
If the Rus leak is accurate, it’s surprising (to me) how heavily the developers are borrowing from past games’ civilization bonuses. Consider,
In particular, it’s interesting that so many of the borrowed ideas are coming from recently-added civilizations. Maybe the DLC and AOE4 conversations are taking place in the same room? Personally, I hope that the new civilizations have many unique features that we have not seen before, and I’m not sure how I feel about this trend I noticed.
i would say the quite opposite of that and say the recent civs are borrowing from aoe4 since don’t forget aoe4 have been in development since a long time and the (swedish,burgundians,sicilians.) are very recent like the swedish are around 15 Oct, 2020 while lord of the west civ are around 26 January, 2021
Russians in AoE3
Indians in AoE3
and the norse in age of mythology
Yup, I mostly play AOE2, so you guys will likely catch more than me. That’s a good point, though @Ziad5241 . I had forgotten how long AOE4 has been in development.
More like they are borrowing and giving
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I don’t know why they not just tell us the Civs, I don’t like that, we waited alot and we deserve to know them.
Were you told the civs of Aoe3 before it came out?
While eight civilizations have been planned for launch, four of which have already been disclosed leaving the other four to be announced.
What are your speculations as to what they may be?
