Mod Release: Italians speak Italian

Age of Empires II: DE II - Modding
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I was playing AoE3 DE when I remembered the times I used to play the Napoleonic Era mod for that game, and I remembered that mod had the Italians as a playable faction, with unique voice lines, you can see where this is going, I ported those to AoE2DE and gave the voices to the Italian units. I wanted to contact the mod author to ask permission, but I don’t really know where, if anyone who worked on that mod wants me to take this down I will I guess.

For some reason I can’t edit the tags for my mod for some reason, and I don’t want it to get lost among all the custom civs mods, so I’m going to post it here, anyway this is copied from the mod description:

Makes the Italian units (villagers and military) speak Italian instead of Latin
Notes:
-Kings and Monks still speak Latin
-Some villager tasks use generic sound effects (for example there’s not a “miner”, “farmer” or “fisherman” sound, the villagers just say something like “ok” or “I’m going” instead) others like chopping wood or hunting do have specific sounds tho
-The Italian language is pretty modern afaik and anachronistic, but so is Latin, so pick your poison

Some of my other mods:
AoE3 Soundtrack in AoE2: Mods Single – Age of Empires
Lords of the West Main Menu Music: Mods Single – Age of Empires
AoE2 HD Main Menu Music: Mods Single – Age of Empires
Classic Main Menu Background (Originally by NkoDragas, art by Otto Osteras) Mods Single – Age of Empires
Halberdier to Heavy Pikeman Fixed (Originally by Belgun) Mods Single – Age of Empires

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BTW if someone has a good source for accurate Gothic, Nahuatl (Aztec) or Maya voices that would fit AoE2 units, tell me so I can make a mod for them
For a similar mod for Byzantines speaking Greek I recommend “Byzantines Speak Greek” by Prokman I:

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Dosent aoe3 have voices for aztecs and maya?

Civilization game series might have sounds that could be used.

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Yeah but AoE3 Aztecs aren’t that accurate either, they are more accurate than AoE2’s tho, so I may make that in the future
Maya in AoE3 are a minor faction so they don’t have villagers

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Have you tried contacting a community of learners of these languages? (r/GothicLanguage or r/nahuatl)

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There would be this one for the gothic language, but it doesn’t work for me, maybe because it’s not updated … Mods Single - Age of Empires Age of Empires II DE - Real gothic language mod - YouTube

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Good idea

That one uses awful text to speech Spanish, you’re not missing much