Let's add AoE2 units to AoE3 for fun!

They also throw Congolese knives and don’t dress at all like dahomey amazons just to insure there wasn’t any rogue details that ended up making some form of sense.

I thought about making a Byzantines concept for AoE3.
Playing as the Byzantines is a fan favourite in Europe Universalis 4 (a game that covers the same time frame as AoE3).
It wouldn’t be completely unreasonable considering that AoE2 just got the Late Western Roman Empire too.
There would be a little “what if” involved though.

But this thread is about AoE2 units not new civs for AoE3.
The idea is to have a crosspromotion and to close the “gap” between both games, making them feel more connected and making them feel more like 2 games of the same series.

Doesn’t make much since (even if I’d love that) because AoE2 is in a completely different engine then AoE3, unlike AoE1 that just used an older version of the AoE2 engine. AoE1 just got 15+1 civilisations while AoE2 has a lot more, plus they all got unique units.
Also AoE4 exists and getting a second medieval 3D AoE would be too much.

That’s why I didn’t list them. They are also not a normal trainable unit for the Hausa anyway.

Ah yes I’m getting sidetracked, anyways I think we need Genoese Crossbowman
No, not the Pavisiers. I mean a real full fledged Genoese Crossbowman, acting as real mercenaries.
So, a mercenary variant of Pavisier.
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I’ll patiently wait for your Byzantines AoE 3 concept