I could n’t found that grenade, but yeah it’s this one definitly. If I’m right, the same wikipedia page showcase the helmet shape of the grenadier unit so for me it’s them.
But those grenadier might be…Mercenaries unit maybe. Cause the chu ko nu red civ on the same picture feature a jurchen flag castle, with siege onager, and hussard, and dragon ships. So except if it’s a special campaign or an indev screenshot. I mean we know now that chinese will loose the mangonel line, that’s the strangiest part, and Chu Ko Nu on Jurchen castle, that’s strange too. Maybe the city is captured during the mission and siege onager are gaia units converted, that’s a solution.
Chronicle is meant for “telling story through chronicle setup”, as the name implies. Not restricted to ancient time, just a narrative way outside of ranked balancing.
But base game is meant for middle age timestamp rather than antiquity for sure. RoR is for antiquity civs, but idk if they will add new content to it someday or not.
I believe the Civ that’s representing the Classic era Chinese Civs will be the Tubo. Considering they have good defense and archers along with having that unique Cavalry unit.
It makes sense since the Tubo were know for having good defenses due to the mountainous habitat of their Empire, Horse Archers recruited from nomadic tribes (represented by almost FU CAs in that tech tree), along with the fact they didn’t have gunpowder like this civ does not, due to existing in the 600-800s. Gunpowder was first used in warfare in 904 or so.
It’s not the Nanzhou because they’d have elephants which their region is famous for. But that’s just my analysis on this civ design.
They could just pull an Armenians and make a Civ completely unlike how they were historically for gameplay reasons. In which case we won’t know who’s actually in until the trailer drops.
There is a point that many people overlook: among the 8 officially announced models of new castles, the one at the top right is likely to be a Chinese castle. Moreover, this design belongs to the architectural style of the Han Dynasty, proving that there will at least be a new civ that belongs to that era.
Interesting. Classical era as in being within the Chronicles universe or classical as in time period of what is in western world defined as the early middle ages ?
I see, I still think it’s a trigger based setup, like gaia captured units, or conquered castle.
For me, the 5th is definitly the fire-archer civ, with the SEA background. One thing that struck me when I searched for that fire-arrow thing, was that: Bayon Angkor seen on the History of Cambodia under the Khmer section.
I deffinitly saw the same head than the background of the SEA, and realized there is a lot of civs that could fit the 5th slot of the DLC, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, etc.
But, I think it would be strange to have a … “non china” civ with such chinese stuff. So I thought about that mercenary idea. I’m convinced the Fire Archer will be a team bonus unit, because of the dragon and the…Yeah it’s cliché…The Moustache of the unit that looks really chinese to me.
I doubt Tibetan will be “The” Civ, but the 5th civ could be used to represent them. It could definitly be… Yuan, due to the helmet shape of the Grenadier.
Yuan was Mongol origin. I don’t think they add a dynasty alongside with race-based civ.
The Mongol cic in game now can represent for both Mongol and Yuan dynasty (with their East Asia architure)
For teaser images like that they often just take a scene from a campaign and slap some random units on it.
I don’t think this scenario will happen like this with those units being available to the player or the AI.
For Chronicles creators got access a month in advance but for Immortal Pillars only a week so who knows.
We could get all the details this week or a month from now.
Hopefully they will start revealing new stuff like everyday. Like they surely have enough content to do this, and it will so much fun and engaging to do so.
Right now, I think the content is not yet ready. Remember it’s also PS5 support launch, which is the major thing of the update. The DLC is a “”““minor””“” feature.
And as they just launched AoM retold and its dlc, that’s logical they can’t be on all spot at once.
