i found this picture in local folder
it’s Athenian castle(Athenian civ symbol), but I’ve never seen it in a game
Is it a new design castle, or is it just dummy data?
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Since when is this there?
They promised 25 new castle sprites in the next update but mathematically there should only be 24 if you don’t count Chronicles civs.
So maybe they did count Chronicles civs and Athens is getting a unique Castle.
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It’s quite a clever adaptation of the Acropolis !
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If it is already in the files, it is not really new. And i don’t think they are counting chronicles civs, It’s kinda separate.
You have some insider information?
I found this image in the Local folder.
Steam\steamapps\common\AoE2DE\resources_common\drs\graphics
File name is “b_greek_athenian_castle_age3_x2.smx”
Images were extracted using SLX Studio.
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Why is it a smx when all other official graphics is sld?
Great find! The file b_greek_athenian_castle_age3_x2.smx (or x1 for non-enhanced graphics) is one of the very few files in the graphics folder in SMX format. It probably ended up there by accident. There are also no corresponding destruction and rubble graphics.
In Genie Editor, you can see that there are distinct graphics IDs for both Monestary and Castle for the two Greek civs, yet they look the same.
There’s another unused SMX file named u_shp_trihemiolia_x2.smx. @SwankBelt730063, could you also extract a PNG image and post it, too, please?
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Sorry I have no idea 11
How has no one noticed that before?
Do these castle and ship have complete animations (destruction and movements)?
Thanks! Is it also possible to create a GIF animation? Or are the other frames identical?
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Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s either…
More unique temples confirmed 
This shows that they have been working on this for a very long time. Maybe the destruction animation of the castle was not ready for the chronicles release.
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That is only if you assume they will keep all the base castles when at least two don’t fit: The central European castle is English and the Middle Eastern one is partially a Naples, Italy castle. So there is a chance one of them may be removed completly
Also I think they would mention Greeks getting their own Castle in the Chronicles section if that was the 25th
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If the Middle Eastern Castle gets removed, I may co-opt it as the unique Castle for my Latins civ, representing Crusader states in the Holy Land.
I know.
Those are all valid guesses until we see the actual patch notes.
And how about Sparta castle? Although I’m not play game because wonder of Sparta realize out of Ares god but I still love Sparta. So I want to know have any mod for it?