I’m happy that the devs are adding more single player content after the amazing work on the DLCs. Here are some historical battles that I believe would be great additions.
Disclaimer:
(1) I’m mainly focusing on the important events that are missing from the game, and the civs that have too few campaign appearances.
(2) I know some would want the game to fix to a “colonial” theme and I have no intention to argue about that here. On the other hand a few historical battles would not interfere with the theme at all just like the Siege of Malta in vanilla.
Battle of Lutzen
Perspective: either Germans (HRE) or Swedes
The game has so many units and mercs based on the Thirty Years War. And Swedes haven’t even got a campaign appearance.
Siege of Leiden
Perspective: Dutch
Dutch haven’t appeared in the campaign either. The breaking of the dikes would be an interesting part of the battle.
Tupac Amaru II’s Revolt
Inca also needs a campaign. And we have Tupac Amaru’s model in the new update.
Battle of Austerliz
Perspective: French
NAPOLEON.
A Waterloo historical battle would also be possible, from either the British or French (alternate history) perspective.
Battle of Cadiz
Perspective: Spanish
Spain did have a lot of campaign appearances…as the antagonist. This could be a good battle from the Spanish perspective.
Battle of Toba-Fushimi
Perspective: Japanese (Imperial)
An important battle in the modernization of Japan.
Qing-Russian Conflicts
Perspective: Chinese
One of the important military conflicts of early modern China with other in-game civs before late Qing.
I’m also thinking of a battle for the Aztecs, but most of the events are already covered in AOE2. If that overlapping is not an issue, there could be an AOE3 remake of those scenarios.
The second largest landing after Normandy in which thousands of Englishmen were humiliated by blas de lezo and a few Spanish?
PS: This is erased from history by the English due to great humiliation.
The modern and unbeatable Swedish army against the old and archaic Spanish Tercio. Winner: Spain
Aside from the Tupac Amaru Revolt, I think it could be added the Battle of Ollantaytambo [Incas vs Spanish + Quechua natives], the last victory of the Manco Inca’s rebellion.
Also, would be interesting to see the Spanish siege of a small Wokou Pirates’ Fort that was part of the Cagayan Battles [Spanish vs Wokou Pirates].
And the Battle of the Tiger’s Mouth [Chinese + Pirates vs Portuguese].
Me sorprende el odio enorme que le tienen a España, en su historia militar España ha tenido un montón de gloriosas victorias casi inigualables, y solo muestran sus derrotas, y encima derrotas poco significativas ni siquiera derrotas aplastantes como las que sufrieron los enemigos de España. y por cierto la serenísima armada española jamás fue derrotada por la inglesa, se hundió por culpa de una tormenta, antes si quiera de llegar a Inglaterra, y pocos recuerdan la contra armada o “La invencible inglesa”? que fue derrotada por España, o pocos recuerdan la derrota que sufrió Nelson tratando de tomar las islas canarias siendo derrotado por campesinos.
I would say Pavia (1525) with Italians,Lützen (1632) with Swedes,Kalhenberg (1683) with Poles,Waterloo (1815) with British,the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt and the rise of Muhammad Ali (1798-1805) with Egyptians and in America,the Battle of Maule (1485) with Mapuches,Cunhambebe (1555) with Tupis,the Battle of San Jacinto (1836) with Sam Houston (Texans) and the Battle of Gettysburg (1863) with a young George A. Custer (Union cavalry)…
Battle of Lepanto, 1571 - Spain ally with Italians* vs Ottoman Empire
Battle of Gravelines, 1588 - England (British civ) vs Spain
Battle of Poltava, 1709 - Russia vs Sweden
Battle of Valmy, 1792 - French vs Prussia*, Austria* and Holy Roman Empire Army (Germans civ)
Battle of Waterloo, 1815 - United Kingdom (British civ) ally with Prussia*, Holy Roman Empire (Germans civ) and Netherlands (Dutch civ) vs French Empire
Battle of Königgrätz, 1866 - Prussia* vs Austria-Hungary* and Saxony (Germans civ)
Battle of White Mountain, 1620 - Habsburg Monarchy* (Austria-Hungary civ) ally with Catholic League (Germans civ) and Spain vs Kingdom of Bohemia (Germans civ) and Electoral Palatinate (Germans civ)
Battle of Vienna, 1683 - Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth* ally with Habsburg Monarchy* (Austria-Hungary civ) and Holy Roman Empire (Germans civ) vs Ottoman Empire and Romanians (revolutionary Russians)
Battle for Copenhagen, 1801 - Denmark-Norway* (Danes civ) vs United Kingdom (British civ)
New civs - Italians*, Austria-Hungary*, Prussians*, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth* and Danes*.
These campaigns would be modeled on the AoE 2 campaign model: Campaign map, no fantasy, cutscenes in the form of book cards. The universality of these campaigns would be nice, i.e. the possibility of leading each side of the conflict with alternative endings (I prefer an alternative story than fantasy). I think such two powerful campaigns would be able to please us players. Potential campaigns are also: Great Northern War (1700-1721), Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), Wars of the Holy League (1683-1699) and Springtime of Nations - if all these wars were to become new campaigns in AoE 3, then there would be no need to add Historical Battles from the European continent.
AOE4 gameplay didn’t impress me as much but I really envy those historical battles.
I think that’s the only thing AOE3 is lacking now. Not to mention we already have a medieval historical game in the series, but AOE3 as the only early modern AOE does not have many historical contents. I can’t imagine a game series that spans the majority of human history does not cover Napoleon or Peter the Great or many others.
This is such a missed opportunity. I’d even insta-buy a paid campaign or scenario pack.
Yes,the Thirty Years’ War and the Napoleonic Wars have not been touched on in the game and have the same historical importance as in AoE 2 have the Crusades (in the case of the Thirty Years’ War because they are religious struggles) and the Hundred Years’ War (in the case of the Napoleonic Wars for being the kick-off of the formation of the idea of the nation-state)…
Yes,you can take as an example the saga of Cossacks and American Conquest that take from playable concept the same historical period as AoE 3…and that has historical campaigns from the arrival of Columbus to the New World (which makes a tutorial campaign) to the American Civil War with the expansion The Nation Divided…
I would add small campaigns for each civ (asians maybe not…china…) like 3-4 missions. But this could be too optimistic. It would be:
France: Napoleonic wars
Spain: too much options: Columbus, incas/aztecs (too much touched) , vs europeans/HRE or exploration of north-mexico america (its more unknown in the society despite having cities like LA, San Francisco, Colorado…)
They are interesting battles,but they would have to be historical battles more or less known by everybody or that have interesting mechanics when they are played,such as those of Cristopher da Gama or Francis Drake…