Now that we have 4 confirmed civs, and that 8 are now confirmed to launch with the base game, what are your predictions? Keep in mind, It seems like they’re sticking to 500-1500 C.E times, the times after the fall of the roman empire. This game seems like it won’t just include europe mostly, like aoe 2 did. My predictions are:
1.English (confirmed)
2. Mongols (Confirmed)
3. Chinese( Confirmed)
4. Delhi Sultanate(Confirmed)
5. Francia/ Franks -fought the English in 100 years war and Normandy is a confirmed campaign
6. Byzantines- No brainer decision, huge influence, especially with Christianity and the crusades
7. Turks- Seljuk Turks owned Anatolia for a long time, ottomans are too late for aoe 2 or 4.
8. Holy Roman Empire- Huge on its own but kingdom of Italy and bohemia were a part of it as well.
Now that we know how different the civs are from each other, from a competitive perspective as a 1350 elo player at aoe 2, and the fact that dlc makes good money, I think another 8 civs is the perfect balance, for a total of 16. 2 civs per expansion.
1st expansion- Asian-Japan- Totally unique culture, obvious choice. Korea- They unified around 1000 C.E, and to be honest, Koreans play rts games the most, obvious choice for marketing
2nd Expansion-African: Mali- The richest country in the world because of gold deposits and Spain- Have the civ represent Islamic Berber occupation as well as Christian el cid times, that way you don’t have to represent Berbers separately.
3rd expansion- Either Aztecs or Incas, or both, or go with Khmer- huge empire spanning 400 years in southeast Asia
4th expansion- Eastern Europe/Scandinavia- Kievan rus- unified a lot of Slavic peoples, then either Vikings- which weren’t a unified civ, but raided Europe for 400 years, cool culture. OR Bulgaria- the 1st and 2nd empires were big powers, fought with Byzantines, Mongols etc
If the game is good and they fix the poor animation, arrows, buildings scaled better etc, I think we could have an amazing game. If they charge $60 for the game and $30 for expansions, they would make so much money, especially if they ended up porting to xbox for cross platform play with keyboard and mouse. Thoughts?