Joining Inca and Aztec is like joining Greeks and Chinese. Completely unrelated cultures that barely knew of each others existence.
Greeks and Norse technically share like half of their gods because they are both Indo European, they would make more sense to be the same pantheon.
Poseidon has a Cyclops hero, Polyphemus I think is his name.
Honestly? No. The Norse civ is already built as Scandi-exclusive, so to cover Slavs would have to be changed. I don’t want Norse changed like that, and beside Rurik is really the only thing connecting Norse to Slavs.
I don’t think Polyphemus is counted as both. Chiron isn’t.
Oh, yeah stats-wise I dunno, I was just mentioning based on race alone. Although can’t Polyphemus throw people like a Cyclops can?
He can. Belleraphon riding a Pegasus has an Anubite-like jump, and Perseus can turn units to stone using a chopped off Medusa head.
Each Greek major god has a mythic age hero that can do something a myth unit can do.
I don’t think mayas, aztecs and incas should be the same civ. Even though there is some similarities in the aztec and maya pantheon (and teotihuacan religion), I think mixing incas with aztecs is like mixing japanese with indians. I mean, the gods, celebrations, rituals are totally different, even the architecture it’s completly different (despite what Age II made us believe)
I would love some aztecs and incas, but celts and yoruba would be cool to
Yeah, the reason why I asked about the Slavs is that the Aztecs, Mayas, and Incas all have different mythological lore. Their characters may share “similarities” but their background is distinctly different.
I would prefer if they only choose one, the Aztecs, like the rest of the other civs.
For those worried that the Aztecs are too “new” for AoM standard:
The Aztecs can, mythologically, trace their “lineage and predecessors” back to the Toltecs, who have existed since the Viking era. If I recalled correctly, the Aztecs even claimed, in their lore, that their gods birthplace was in Teotihuacan, which the empire existed in 100~ BCE.
Well technically the Norse culturally influenced the Slavs (Kievian Rus’), but Slavic mythology is much older (at least from the Bronze Age)… you can include the Rus’ from AoE 4, but including witches, vampires and werewolves like in The Witcher 3… on the other hand, Mesoamerican mythology was simply an evolution from Olmecs to Mayans and finally to Aztecs… you can include the Aztecs from AoE 3 and then Olmec and Mayan references here and there… the Incas are directly another mythology and should be separated from the Mesoamerican ones…
Yes, I say the same…
Shinto or Hindu to round off Asia.
hope they balance the game and fix the crucial bugs first. Maybe after we can talk about another DLC.
That second DLC is already indirectly announced by being included in the premium edition
2nd DLC is Japanese Pantheon indeed!
I admit to being disappointed that the new pantheon is indeed another East Asian one, but at least it’s still a new pantheon we get to play with.
I’d already posted about this: from a marketing point of view, it’s exactly what I’d anticipated. The Aztecs/Maya are reserved for future DLC. With the success of the premium, there’s no risk in releasing the Japanese now - it’s more profitable and extends the Chinese campaign.
Players will pay for the missing civilisations later on, which wasn’t guaranteed with Japanese DLC. So it’s a sound strategic choice, even if some people will be disappointed. Above all, it confirms that there will be plenty more DLC to come.
Exactly (20 characters)!
Truly Apollo’s chosen
Them saving more highly wanted pantheons for DLC that will not be bundled with the main game does make sense, assuming they are coming at all.
Them doing Japanese just so they can reuse assets seems a little weird, considering they didn’t reuse anything from AoE3 in AoM Retold. Not even Trees or Deer.
But they did reuse trees and farms from the Chinese DLC for the Japanese.
Can’t tell if there’s also player controlled stuff (like villagers) being reused too.
Could also be placeholder assets while the other are in production. If the game is 5+ months away, they won’t have everything polished or implemented yet.
Yeah, they nailed it with that one, the one who made the post is Nostradamus…
Of course, they did it simply to maintain regional continuity and to reuse assets… so the next DLCs would be Aztecs and Incas in 2026; in Europe, Celts and Slavs in 2027 and in the Middle East, Babylonians and Persians or Persians and Indians in 2028…
Make the 2028 drop Babylonians (or Sumerians) and Persians and i’m game. I’m not sure we’ll ever see Indians, given Hinduism is still practiced. Though from my very limited knowledge of Hinduism they have an insane number of gods and many aren’t worshiped anymore so maybe they could make a civ out of gods that used to be major but aren’t anymore? Dunno, still seems riskier than the others. Then again this Japanese DLC could be seen as risky as well as Shintoism I believe is still practiced to a degree as well, but I don’t know how much of the content directly comes from Shintoism either; other than some basic knowledge of Confucianism I kinda know next to nothing about most E. Asian religions admittedly.
Also i’d love to have some sub-saharan African civs, and maaaaaybe some North American (Algonquin/Iroqois and Puebloan) though both of those two sets would probably be harder than the others, and are lower priority than the others as well IMO.