i mean yes, i’m not a fan of the US, but there are some points to take away here:
a significant part of the player base is from the US, maybe as much as 30%
the US achieved independence the first in the new world.
the US was involved in a lot of wars, and generally came off well from them, these wars include foreign intervention like this one: First Barbary War - Wikipedia
1- So discrimination towards non Anglo Saxon sphere.
2- USA did not exist during the majority of the timeline of the game. Seems like an arbitrary rule.
3- I’m not an expert on Brazil history, but I’m sure they were involved in wars aswell.
4- USA claim as major power arguably only starts after WW1.
Rules for thee but not for me, it’s what this feels like.
Obviously it wont be Brazil, I dont see them going to that level of pandering for non USA players.
They cant even fix the spelling of Ginete instead of the Spanish version Jinete for Portugal (among several other glaring issues, in various degrees of importance)
Fingers crossed for Morocco.
that is a pretty ridiculous argument.
1776 is indeed a little late, but it still beats 1822 by a lot.
i think i count 6 wars i would accept as wars, i dont accept revolts/internal conflicts, and i dont accept smalle “incidents”.
meanwhile lets look at the US.
there are quiet a few wars with major players/significant foreign intervention including as far as Japan, China and Tripoli. the largest wars are the war of 1812, the revolutionary war, 2nd opium war and the American civil war.
no, the US was a major industrial powerhouse even by the start of the american civil war.
The Moroccan mosque for Hausa has been changed , it has unique architecture now different from the ottoman mosque, so my guess the new civ will be Moroccans since they are already playable in the historical battles
It’s just an artistic choice. Recently we’ve seen many cards with a flag used as the background to indicate a national identity to the origin of the card, mainly in the USA cards. There are cards there with an Irish and Polish flag there for example, nobody is using that as an indication Ireland and Poland are next in line for DLC.
1- It really isn’t. A quick check on mainstream media shows how vilified the Iberian sphere of influence is.
2-inded it does, and defeats the purpose of revolutions.
3-nice list, but there are quite a few internal ones on that list aswell up to 1876, so it’s a bit misleading. I need to read on it properly because I have very little knowledge about USA history to be fair.
4- Rise of Industrial America only came proper after the civil war, which again its already quite late per the game timeline, according to a quick peek on the internet. Not to say that they weren’t becoming industrialized, but as a major power in industry its indeed the later half of the 19th century. Again this was covered by the revolutions in game.
I put my money on that.
Not just because it the civ that I would like to see the most out of the possible choices, but because there is a high and compact demand from the fan base.
Really the most people on social networks ask for them, and as we know Microsoft likes money…
So in my opinion both for me and for them is the safest bet…
It depends on when they plan to release it. If it will be after a short period, probably Morocco, since there is already some sort of a civ in the game.
If it’s instead near the release of AoE4, or even after it’s most likely Italians, since they need more time to be designed and tested, and probably will point the spotlight in the internet on the AoE4 game too.
Well, for British it’s normal, for Danes a bit less true.
It might also be that they’ll add the moroccons now, and those 2 are hints on another DLC of European powers, since Danes and Italians are the 2 European civs most requested.
But I’m hofir Italians, and for that they’ll release them with a series of challenges like the USA.
New civilizations are very welcome, but I think an update of old civilizations is very necessary and important as well.
Sounds like exciting things are happening with AoE3. Good stuff here’s to hoping that the title will live on.
As for the topic at hand, I would really like if we got the Danes and Italians but I wouldn’t be surprised if we get the Morrocans.
Completely agree with you. Unfortunately the devs get mostly paid to create new content so I hope they can restructure their inner workings.
Hy guys. I don’t know if everyone noticed it but I made a poll about this argument.
I also saw that some of you already voted, but I mess up with the original post and the poll reset.
I ask to who has already voted, to go there and vote again. I also incourage to voting for those haven’t already.
This game also had an active community during that time due to modders adding new civs, units, mechanics and maps (aka: new content) to the game…
Ah well I’m not gonna see Portugal getting a light rework then…
So why is the American civil war here. Not disagreeing, just found it strange.
I don’t think you understand that this is bad for the game even if the intentions are good. If we start to include more emerging civilizations from that period like Brazil in this case, people will keep asking for civilizations that should only be in ‘revolution’ mode. I am from Latin America too, and I would not like them to turn ‘the great Colombia’ or ‘Mexico’ into complete facsions. Rather, they should make revolutions more diverse and allow them to become imperial.
It is just a guess. We were never told ‘new civ incoming’ when tweaked cards were released.
Very likely Moroccans. They have units, cards and voice lines ready.
And it’s more likely an “old world” civ with mediterranean architecture like Ottomans (though I sincerely hope they make a new middle eastern architecture set), rather than an “african” one.
I thought the devs didn’t have enough time to finish the Moroccan architecture and that’s why they weren’t added in the African Royals DLC.
i mean you could argue it shouldn’t be which is fair, but the confederates he de facto acted like an entirely different country and the conflict took years to resolve, meanwhile fighting bandits or removing the governor of a single province takes weeks maybe.
Then in that list of 6 Brazilian conflicts you must have included the Ragamuffin War, right? Again, not trying to be aggressive.
