Someone posted them on Reddit, but here they are.
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If you go to the main AOE site on your computer, right click the image and open it in a new tab you can view it as big as your monitor can show
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Why? Chinese history is super well recorded and super interesting. Thwres more to the medieval period than the late middle ages
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If pre-Mongols then it’d be some civil wars, clashes with Turkic tribes and I think only one major foreign battle was Battle of Talas with Abbasids. Screenshots looked very much late era. Basically Mongol Conquest to me.
Where was the announcement. Not seeing it in the official forums and didn’t get an Insider email
Should be under News & Annoucements maybe, yeah? Or as an Insider, one of the first to know, like maybe a day or half a day before everyone else? Even if it is a message saying, “Cool announcement tomorrow. Check here or here at x:xx AM for the official press release/announcement”
Insiders are often the last to know 
I hope we get Tulous either as a constructable building or a Scenario Editor object.
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Imperial halberdier?
Or fire lancer as someone here mentioned
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Tthe second screenshot appears to be post mongol,as frol what I understand the use of fire carts took off during the 14th century (although they may be taking some liberties and use them extensively in the 12th and 13th century)
The Tangut catapult in thecsecond one would mean its from the Xi Xia, of the 11th to 13th century in the first screenshot, but it could be as early as the 9th (again, with some liberties taken)
If I had to bet I think we arre looking at a DLC focused in the three empire rivalry during the Jin-Song wars, but it may as well be very separate time periods for each campaign
Wait nvm second one alsobincludes the fire cart, so prob from the 12th century too. And the halb at least to me seems to imply that the yellows of thevfirst one are the same civ as the red of the second screenshot
arent late Chinese are basically Mongols but embracing more of Chinese culture?
Ming Dynasty wasnt Mongol and it lasted a longer time
Still sad no proper regional reskins for Chinese. Wasted opportunity again.
Thought Mongols annexed all of China and modern day Korea. Just stopped at modern day Vietnam/Cambodia/etc. Then you had Yuan Dynasty thing
Yeah but China didnt became Mongol, the domination of the mongols in the South was barely a century.
Also I think you are thinking of the Qing, who werent Mongols but Manchu
HA! A couple of months late. But I was right!
Looks like Jurchens & Tanguts are confirmed thanks to their unique units being present (Iron Pagodas & Camel Catapult).
The castles I am not sure who those belong to. I could point which one is closer to Tangut & Jurchen. But that does not confirm they exactly belong to them. This could be larger than 2 civs, or it might not. No real way to tell, especially as some of the UU seen might just be scenario editor units glares at Qizilbash.
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Ive never been so uninterested to buy a dlc
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It’s been a long time coming, but finally here it is
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Sounds like a you issue.
Which is fine. We are so many and there are people like you with terrible taste.
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I’m happy that we’re getting a traditional DLC again and that it’s not set in Europe.
I’m unhappy that it’s going to bloat another set to 7-8 civs instead of focusing on those where we have barely any.
I’m sorry but we’re overdue for a new architecture set and I get the feeling they intentionally ignore Africa and the Americas.
I’m probably going to get it on day one but I’m going to give it a negative review like the other ones which bloated new sets, even though I’m somewhat more of a fan of the theme than some other DLCs (cough, cough DotD, LotW, RoR and TMR)
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IMO they really messed up with the camel… should of been the infamous giant repeating crossbows…
Fantasy units are supposed to be believable and these DLC’s always fail at that