Konnik for me.
Well the mechanics anyway!
I would love some units to give a ‘second wind’ once they are defeated. Essentially a forced, on-shot ‘dismount’.
I guess it could be for some expensive Unique Unit types, such as a Cuirassier or even some Arty units.
Would just be a bit of fun seeing Cuirassier making a last stand, on foot as a swordsman, or a Cavalry Archer’s horse being blasted, with the unit re-emerging as a foot archer (all with a greatly reduced HP pooL).
Yup. The original creator (I think Alexsator is his username?), however, already works for Forgotten for a while now.
I’ll say we go all the way, ROMA AETERNA!!!
Legionaries for Italians, heck we already have a Hero as a centurion & the tech itself.
Byzantines for AoE3 when?
I’d love to have everything from the Bronze Age to Napoleon on one big 3D AoE game.
Having to go back to AoE2DE RoR to get an ancient setting without Mythology is kinda sad, AoE1 just has to many design flaws.
AoE 3 DE for me is the peak of quality in AoE franchise. Not even AoE 4 holds a candle to AoE 3 in terms of graphics & unit scaling. I really wish AoE 3 could at least cover from late medieval era so that civs like Egyptians, Byzantines, Hungarians, etc could join in.
It has the Inca and Aztecs so there is nothing really stopping them from adding other late medieval civilisations.
But should they though?
I personally like AoE3 a lot more then AoE2 and AoE4 but both of those games are more successful then AoE3.
Greeks? I’d love having Byzantines but I recognize they are a tad early for the timeline
Wouldn’t that be like Empire Earth or something?
Also, what is that tech? I’m just waking up
tilanus does as well
They could work gameplay wise.
A lot of AoE3 civs are mostly depicting early modern civilisations so they wouldn’t feel wrong gameplay wise.
The Great Bombard for example was used to conquer Constantinople and for nothing else, as far as I know.
They shouldn’t get Factories, Mortars, Skirmisher and other modern things though.
All civs could work gameplaywise with some balance. But the Byzantines, as much as I’d love to have them, were a dying power by the year 1400
https://www.worldhistorymaps.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/map-1400ad.jpg
They showed the Ottomans and the world what they were made of. Who were their forefathers. What were the capable of.
They fought valiantly until the bitter end. But in the end, they perished, and thus, the Roman Empire fell.
It’s Roman Tactics from Italian’s Home City card
I mean, the game has Maltese. If a small island can become a civ, the sprawling Byzantines successor states like Empire of Trebizond & Empire of Thessalonica itself isn’t that far fetched imo.
The Ottomans actually used them again during the 19th century when the British tried to invade. To be fair no one actually expected them to still be operational after so many centuries lol.
Don’t get me wrong. I would preorder a Byzantine DLC in a heart beat, BUT I think adding them, besides the Byzantine power they were not yielding, raises the issue about eventually extending the timeline further earlier. If anything, it would be better to add a Greek civ, which is firmly set in the timeline.
(Lowkey wanting triggers to change train location too, but whatever)
but I do want the game to at least extend the time further to the Late Medieval Era. Where we can still see the Golden Horde, Byzantines, Egypt (Mamluks), etc. I guess this is just me wishing I played the Byzantines other than on AoE 2.
How about AoE4?
Also, knowing that you’d rather have Byzantines, if you had to choose between
What would you choose?
Hahah, you should’ve seen me how much I rant on AoE 4’s forum about the “Variant civs”. AoE 4 is a downgrade for me, I even regretted buying the game when it goes on discount. So no, I won’t be buying the AoE 4 DLC & certainly won’t playing their Byzantines which is a shame since the Byzantines there are quite interesting.
A Greek/Byzantine hybrid, I wonder how that’s going to work?
You can revolt back to Byzantines, but that would be quite funny, or the Greeks has a unique age up mechanics when they reach Imperial Age they got the choice of:
Isn’t that the Megali idea?
Edit: just to be clear, I’d rather have either a Greek civ or a Byzantine but not a hybrid civ
You mean someone already has my idea?
I do rather have a pure Byzantine civ but not a full fledged Greek civ. Greeks should be a revolution civ exclusive for the Ottomans imo.
new DLC return of kings —— just like ROR —— to play AOE2 in AOE3
The Gbeto is the Dahomey Amazon. They don’t belong to either Malians or to AoE2’s time period.