Eh, it’s not completely unreasonable to say that Cattle was still at least of equal importance to ##### ##### in the Kingdom of Kongo. They were still a symbol of wealth, tse-tse flies or not.
Look, I have nothing agains the game acknowledging slavery happened and that it was bad, but I’d rather not have it as a gameplay element, especially after having played Wars of Liberty.
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I don’t think so, unless it is a very different architecture, like Polynesian…
I agree, maybe now they will get into Western or Central Asia, or even Southeast Asia…
Yes, but I think they are going to follow a certain trend with Asian civs, like aging with wonders…
Yes, I see that they are putting Morocco into a single DLC with the Barbary States…
And with that, it means that we won’t have DLC until 2024 or 2025…
The United States and Mexico have this system because they are federal states and otherwise it would not be so unique if the European civs had them…
With Maoris and Hawaiians…
They are going to add Brazil, because it was an empire and because it is a very large market (that’s where Argentina can also enter to have a DLC for the River Plate area)…
It’s not that there are more options left, Poland, Denmark and Switzerland (and nobody cares about Switzerland) xd…
Unlike the Italians, the Maltese had colonies in the New World, as they bought several islands in the Carribeans as part of an agreement with the French before the islands were sold back to the French West India Company. Much like the Italians, the Knights Hospitaller played a crucial role in slowing the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Europe, as they manage to hold out on their own in the Great Siege of Malta.
1421 (Chinese campaign and German War Wagons) - 1917 (Finland Revolution) (aka Russian Revolution/Civil War)
The Hausa symbolize the Hausa kingdoms that existed since the 8th century and the Sokoto Caliphate (1804-1903)… the Incas because they faced the Spanish and the Indians symbolize the Mughal Empire (1526-1857)…
Yes, Hungary is represented by the Magyars in AoE 2 and in AoE 3 you have the Hungarian revolution of 1848…
There is a reason why it is represented by Venice (697-1797) as Home City…
The Meiji Restoration occurred in 1868 and lasted until 1912 (that is, it is still within the timeline of the game)…
The Germans of AoE 3 represent the post-Reformation Holy Roman Empire (1517-1806)…
It seems good to me…
It’s because the Japanese created the ########### in 1543 based on Portuguese models…Oda ######## used ########### in the Battle of Anegawa (1570), and again against the powerful Takeda clan in the Battle of Nagashino (1575), 3,000 gunners helped win the battle, firing by volleys of a thousand at a time. The defeat of the powerful Takeda clan brought about permanent changes in battle tactics.
Japan became so enthusiastic about the new weapons that it possibly overtook every European country in absolute numbers produced.[21] Japan also used the guns in the Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592, in which about a quarter of the invasion force of 160,000 were gunners.[22] They were extremely successful at first and managed to capture Seoul just 18 days after their landing at Busan. The internal war for control of Japan was won by Tokugawa Ieyasu, who defeated his rivals at the Battle of Sekigahara in October 1600. Three years later, he established the Tokugawa shogunate, a powerful entity that would maintain peace, stability, and prosperity in Japan for the following 250 years. This is known as the Edo period (1603–1868). From the mid-17th century, Japan decided to close itself to interaction with the West except for the Dutch Republic through its policy of sakoku. Contrary to popular belief, this did not lead to Japan “giving up the gun”; if anything, the gun was used less frequently because the Edo period did not have many large-scale conflicts in which a gun would be of use. Often the katana was simply the most practical weapon in the average small-scale conflicts.
Isolation did not eliminate the production of guns in Japan—on the contrary, there is evidence of around 200 gunsmiths in Japan by the end of the Edo period.[24] However, the social life of firearms had changed: as the historian David L. Howell has argued, for many in Japanese society, the gun had become less a weapon than a farm implement for scaring off animals.[25] With no external enemies for over 200 years, ########### were mainly used by samurai for hunting and target practice, the majority were relegated to the arms store houses of the daimyō.
The arrival in Japan of the United States Navy led by Matthew C. Perry in 1854 began a period of rearmament. The ########### was an antiquated weapon by the 1800s and various samurai facts acquired advanced firearms including the minié rifle, breech-loading and repeating rifles. The samurai era ended in 1868 with the Meiji period; Japan turned to a national conscription army with modern weapons and uniforms. Some gunsmiths did replace their matchlock-type ########### into percussion cap mechanisms while retaining its design as a musket. The last use of samurai armor and traditional weapons in Japan, including ############ was during the Satsuma Rebellion (1877), when the Meiji government’s newly established Imperial Japanese Army put an end to the last samurai and their resistance to modernization.
Yes, Morocco will arrive sooner or later, since we do not have a North African or Maghreb civ (Hausa is a sub-Saharan civ and Ethiopia is an East African civ)
Yes, and if not, we will always have the Klamath and the Nootka xd…
Kongo oral tradition suggests that the Kingdom of Kongo was founded before the 14th century and the 13th century.[23][24] The kingdom was modeled not on hereditary succession as was common in Europe, but based on an election by the court nobles from the Kongo people. This required the king to win his legitimacy by a process of recognizing his peers, consensus building as well as regalia and religious ritualism.[25] The kingdom had many trading centers both near rivers and inland, distributed across hundreds of kilometers and Mbanza Kongo – its capital that was about 200 kilometers inland from the Atlantic coast.[25]
The Portuguese arrived on the Central African coast north of the Congo river, several times between 1472 and 1483 searching for a sea route to India,[25] but they failed to find any ports or trading opportunities. In 1483, south of the Congo river they found the Kongo people and the Kingdom of Kongo, which had a centralized government, a currency called nzimbu, and markets, ready for trading relations.[26] The Portuguese found well developed transport infrastructure inlands from the Kongo people’s Atlantic port settlement. They also found exchange of goods easy and the Kongo people open to ideas. The Kongo king at that time, named Nzinga a Nkuwu allegedly willingly accepted Christianity, and at his baptism in 1491 changed his name to João I, a Portuguese name.[25] Around the 1450s, a prophet, Ne Buela Muanda, predicted the arrival of the Portuguese and the spiritual and physical enslavement of many Bakongo.[27][28]
The trade between Kongo people and Portuguese people thereafter accelerated through 1500. The kingdom of Kongo appeared to become receptive of the new traders, allowed them to settle an uninhabited nearby island called São Tomé, and sent Bakongo nobles to visit the royal court in Portugal.[26] Other than the king himself, much of the Kongo people’s nobility welcomed the cultural exchange, the Christian missionaries converted them to the Catholic faith, they assumed Portuguese court manners, and by early 16th-century Kongo became a Portugal-affiliated Christian kingdom.[
Oral traditions about the early history of the country were set in writing for the first time in the late 16th century, and especially detailed versions were recorded in the mid-17th century, included those written by the Italian Capuchin missionary Giovanni Cavazzi da Montecuccolo.[15] Traditions about the foundation changed over time, depending on historical circumstances. At its greatest extent it reached from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Kwango River in the east, and from the Congo River in the north to the Kwanza River in the south. The kingdom consisted of several core provinces ruled by the Manikongo, the Portuguese version of the Kongo title Mwene Kongo, meaning “lord or ruler of the Kongo kingdom”, but its sphere of influence extended to neighboring kingdoms, such as Ngoyo, Kakongo, Loango, Ndongo, and Matamba, the latter two located in what is Angola today.[5]
From c. 1390 to 1862, it was an independent state. From 1862 to 1914, it functioned intermittently as a vassal state of the Kingdom of Portugal.[11] In 1914, following the Portuguese suppression of a Kongo revolt, Portugal abolished the titular monarchy.
It was a mix between Egypt and the Gupta Empire xd…They had War Elephants and Indian Pharaohs…After defeating the Hittites in the end of the Bronze Age (1274 BCE), the Egyptians expanded eastward, conquering Persia in the Iron Age (700 BCE) and settling in northern India, when in the 4th century CE their descendants invaded that entire area and created the Eguptite Empire xd…
Things as they are…
And not to mention that we have the revolutions of the USA and Mexico coexisting with their respective civs…
Sad noises…It fits perfectly as an AoE 3 civ (since it didn’t exist in AoE 2)…
Ranavalona is better because it is easier to pronounce and to insert another AI woman…
All can be…
Or in another way Hausa 2.0 xd…
Insert Brazilians whipping slaves xd…
I’m not talking about the federal system, I’m talking about the Age UP system. African and American civilizations have exactly the same Age UP system, and I think that applying it to all civilizations would make them more unique, not less.
But obviously this is just my opinion. 
Most likely we will not receive any more DLCs, but again, dreaming costs nothing, I hope the developers make all the original revolutions complete civilizations. 
The name is the least important thing, think about the mechanics, 2 cards and something extra.
For example, England could obtain Scottish or Irish units as replacements for others, we could even ask that these changes affect the flag if we maintain the same “alliance” during the game.
Example:
Age I: Irish politician or Irish historical figure.
Age II: Irish politician or Irish historical figure.
Age III: Irish politician or Irish historical figure.
Age IV: Irish politician or Irish historical figure. (At this point your flag changes to that of Ireland)
Age V: Irish politician or Irish historical figure. (Irish Imperial Age)
PS: no, I don’t think mercenaries count. 
Yes, it depends, the new European civs continue to advance as the European civs always advance, the federal states will advance as the federal states advance and the new Asian civs will advance as the Asian civs that we already have…
Let’s hope so…
Yeah I’m aware of their overseas holdings, however for impact on the world stage it’s far less so. The game scope has moved on from colonial possessions to more about how influential/powerful a civ is in the region or within the world stage. My comment is really just about Malta being not really that significant when other potential civs are concerned, however that’s a well-beaten horse (recycled assets etc) and I’m still pleased with for any new civs really…
That’s why Italian, or rather the Italian States have always been a good choice, with their impact during the timeframe with the arts, science, exploring, etc, despite the lack of colonial possessions outside of the Mediterranean (Genoa and Venice’s realm), though Malta was under control of Sicily.
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I’m sorry but 1917 is an insane time-frame to give the game, that would include fighter planes, dreadnoughts, LMGs, cars and tanks. there is no way any devs ever working on the game would include 1917 as part of the period.
That’s a little later, but yes, 1917 is too much. Notice how almost no gunpowder unit uses a single shot rifle.
oops, i meant planes obviously.
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Germany has federal states as well.
We need Inuits as well, along with more maps North of the US. Also Ainus, but they’re not from the Americas.
Again with the Egupt 
I’d like to point out revolution options in the game don’t represent only successful revolta, otherwise the game would go all the way into 1949 with the Indonesian revolution.
I think maybe they should rename that rev since that name apparently didn’t exist yet.
Sure, but they needed another Mediterranean civ along with Italy and Sicily was part of Spain during the early modern age…
Of course, I mean at the level of revolutions, not playably (obviously they are not going to put WW1 in AoE 3 and for that we need another AoE)…
Yes, but that is modern Germany, the Germany of the game is the HRE…
It is because in reality the Indonesian revolution symbolizes the Java War (1825-1830)…
