But that’s also what I like about the game, it can gives you very modern civilizations and more archaic ones, so everyone can choose what he likes more.
Of course want that the Italians on aoe3 would be more than just the renaissance, but I think that it will be the case.
Although I have to say, I didn’t liked the Mexico civ…
The US was fine, even though I strongly dislike some of their features, but the Mexico was a bit too much gimmick and meme mechanics…
These must really be the focus but I hope that the two centuries between these points of Italian history are not completely neglected: even if the Papal State declined, for example, it was very important and could both influence and be influenced by the great Catholic empires.
I don’t think that they’ll be completely neglected, since Italy wasn’t completely useless.
The venetians for example kept battling the ottomans during all the 1600 and 1700, and even won some important battles. Their army was considered to be on pair with the ottomans.
The kingdom of savoy too was quite important as a regional power, but that’s the problem, Italy in thay period was a regional power, not a global power like other European nations, and for sure it didn’t influence the world like it did during the renaissance anymore.
Still, there is enough to make a civ about it even for that period…
Senhores me perdoem por escrever em meu idioma local, o português, mas aqui esta o resumo dos civs dado pela Steam: Malta:
Proteja o Mediterrâneo contra incursões com fortificações exclusivas, vista armaduras brilhantes para se defender de ataques e bombardeie seus inimigos à distância com os Canhões Fixos. Lança-chamas e espadas podem até ganhar batalhas, mas a logística superior da sua Comenda vence guerras. Ainda bem que você pode contar com ambos! Os combates em alto mar com as Galés da Ordem podem deixar a pólvora enxarcada, mas isso não é problema para os seus Arbalesteiros. Você sempre pode reabastecer seu estoque em um Depósito de Pólvora, ou até mesmo explodi-lo se um exército inimigo estiver de passagem!
Itália:
Una as forças abastadas de repúblicas mercantis, ducados e estados Papais enquanto novos Colonizadores aparecem aos bandos em seu império em ascensão a cada grande avanço tecnológico e use Arquitetos para construir edificações sem custo algum! Invista no Banco Lombardo para potencializar sua economia e obter lucro rapidamente, ou construa uma Basílica imponente e envie soldados Papais para fortalecer e complementar seu exército. Use Escudeiros protegidos para atrair oponentes a uma emboscada de Bersaglieri ou faça os Elmeti usarem suas lanças e triunfe com um ataque impiedoso!
Exploration Age (1400-1550) (Renaissance Italy) (here is the archaics units of the Late Middle Ages)
Commerce Age (1550-1700) (Italy of the 30 Years’ War) (Spanish rule, siege of Malta and Battle of Lepanto) (here is the Spanish and religious units )
Fortress Age (1700-1770) (Habsburg and Illuminist Italy) (here is the Germans units and the economic boom)
Industrial Age (1770-1820) (Napoleonic Italy) (here is the French units and the Carbonari)
Imperial Age (1820-1870) (Risorgimento Italy until the final unification) (here is the exclusive italians units,Young Italy,the Sardinian bersaglieri and the red shirts of Garibaldi)…
1865 was the first written mention of them as Mafia and that’s solidly within the time period. They also had a “code of silence” so they would have existed for some time undetected before that.
The mafia slowly originated after the unification of Italy in about the mid 1800 as a result of policies introduced by the savoy without considering the context of the south and the dismantle of the bourbon army and industry.
Still, considering that this a serious problem that still plague Italy nowadays, I liked a lot that they did include them.
I’m pretty sure the Italian Bombard would probably be replacing the Heavy Cannon in which that unit is trained at the Factory instead of the Heavy Cannon.
There could be new Sicilian units based on Pistolero and Renegado. USA civ could have a unique card that adds the possibility of hiring the Sicilian Mafia (including the Tommy Gun Mafioso - I know it’s the interwar years, but cool and cult).
