Hey everyone,
As has long been noted by campaign fans, there are still a ton of civs, even from the original AoK, that have never gotten a full campaign of their own. The most recent expansion to bring us a campaign for one of those neglected civs was The Mountain Royals, with the persian campaign - in concert with a civ rework. Since then, the number of civs without a campaign has grown, with the introduction of Jurchens and Kithans. Many had hoped that V&V would relieve this problem, but it turned out to only contain one-shot battles instead of full campaigns.
So, with the current DLC strategy, how do we get the campaigns for civs that are lacking in that regard? Chronicles seems to bring in new civs for its campaigns, and so did the three Kingdoms, instead of finally getting us a chinese or even japanese or korean campaign.
My idea - though I have no idea if that would be financially viable - would be the release of smaller campaign packs - not marketed as full DLCs (which was part of the issue with V&V), at a lower price point, not even combined with a big balance patch - just 1-3 campaigns for the civs that still don’t have one.
Obviously, the east asian civs would be most in need of such campaign packs, for Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Kithans and Jurchens. I’m not very good with east asian history, so I would leave suggestions to others.
(The following suggestions are copied from a reddit post I made some time ago)
After that, we have Turks - I think a Mehmed II campaign would work very well. A good showing for turkish gunpowder. Yes, the Fetih scenario covers part of this, but there’s much more to the story.
For the Maya, historical sources are rare - the most important historical events we know about involve the war between Tikal and Calakmul, already in parts present in Dos Pilas. Maybe someone else has a better idea.
Vikings: This one’s easy. The best option would surely be Knut the Great. We can forge the North Sea Empire and go against a multitude of factions!
Since Dracula is a split campaign, neither Magyars nor Slavs are really represented in their own campaign. For Magyars, I’d suggest Louis I (Nagy Lajos) - in his career, we have a crusade against Lithuania, an invasion against the golden horde, campaigns in italy (for example against Naples), wars against venice and the tatars - and becoming the King of Poland (after already being King of Hungary). He also happens to be the father of Jadwiga, so he would fit right in!
For the Slavs I’m thinking about Yaroslav the Wise - We could start with the civil war against his brothers, the fouding of the novgorod republic, alliance with the swedes, his campaigns against the byzantines and defending against the pechenegs. Great variety here and a historical figure full of contradictions.
El Cid is split as well, it’s 1/3 saracen and 2/3 spanish. Sarecens already have the Saladin campaign. Spanish need one that represents their strengths in gunpowder better, something set at the end of the medieval age. For that reason, I would suggest Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic Monarchs - also a great way to implement a co-op campaign and share responsibilities between allies in single player, as was done in Algirdas and Kestutis.
You can again start with the civil war that united their realms, continue with the end of the Reconquista (conquest of Granada), maybe a scenario about Colombus’ journeys, then of course, the Italian wars against the french (can be 2 scenarios at different points in time, honestly) and the conquest of Navarre.
Celts are a bit of a problem. They don’t fit in very well as a civ as the regions they are supposed to represent. They do have the learning campaign, but they should propably get a full one as well. Robert the Bruce would be the obvious choice, though I felt he was poorly implemented in Longshanks and isn’t well represented by the celts. Maybe Alexander III and his battles against Norway? Then again, I don’t know if there’s enough other civs you could include in a campaign about him, my knowledge about him is simply lacking a bit.
Finally we have the romans. This one would have to be set in very late antiquitiy. Aetius would be the obvious choice, I think.
What do you think? Viable idea, or unsustainable and potentially damaging to the brand, like V&V ended up potentially being? Do you think we will ever see campaigns for these civs?
