# (joke) in-game hint for future DLC

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**Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 5:45am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/joke-in-game-hint-for-future-dlc/289228/6 "2026-09-03T05:45:58Z")

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If a Teuton split is to happen:

> [@All three new campaigns being set in the Viking Age is kinda disappointing NGL](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/all-three-new-campaigns-being-set-in-the-viking-age-is-kinda-disappointing-ngl/288289/24):
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> - Teutons/Thuringians: current Teutons but they need the Malbork castle skin that’s used by Slavs for some reason. They’d represent Central Germans and their eastward expansion (Ostsiedlung), including the Teutonic Order.
> - Bavarians: Upper Germans from Bavaria and Austria who ruled the HRE. More heavy cavalry focused and they inherit Barbarossa campaign
> - Swabians/Swiss: infantry and archers
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> Saxons would be in the north but so far they seem mostly Anglo-Saxon based ☹

If it’s possible to mix architecture styles, I’d give the Teutons/Thuringians the Slavic set walls (red brick ones).

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