In First Punic War 2 (Return of Rome), you can advance to the Iron Age

Age of Empires II: DE II - Report a Bug
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  • GAME BUILD #: 101.103.13286.0.
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

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The hints for The First Punic War state that you can now advance to the Bronze Age. In fact, you can already advance to the Iron Age! I suspect that this is a bug, since the wording would suggest that Bronze Age is the maximum.

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  • 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Start First Punic War 2 in Return of Rome
  2. Read the hints
  3. Advance to the Bronze Age, and see that you can also advance all the way to the Iron Age

:play_button: EXPECTED RESULT

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You should propably not be able to get to the Iron Age

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This is not a bug, but an intended design choise, to be able to, eventually, advance to the Iron Age:
Age of Empires wiki - Battle of Mylae scenario

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How does quoting the wiki prove that this is an intentional design choice? It’s a fan wiki, I don’t see how it has more authority than the in-game hints, which only state that you can now advance to the bronze age.

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The hints don’t say “you can only advance to the Bronze Age”, but "“now you have access to the Bronze Age” (at the very least), so it is not stated whether Iron Age is denied or not.
As for he wiki, it was maintaied by AOE players all around the globe and not just one guy behind a keyboard. More so, the wiki is made by players not only of Return of Rome, but also the original, classic game.

If the hints are indeed wrong, well… a fix would be needed for better clarity and to avoid fuzzy understandings on the scenario, and the text should say something like “you have access to the Bronze Age and beyond”, or something like that.