Hello there,
I’ve played around a bit with the new historical maps. There are some good ideas, but there are a few points that I think could be improved.
1#
Firstly, and most importantly, on The Wars of the Three Kingdoms and The Livonian War maps, we start in Age 2. And we cannot change that, even if you remove the recommended settings.
Age of Empires 3 is designed to start in Age 1, as the politicians, wonders, and alliances of each age matter in the gameplay of each civilization. Ignoring an Age up is a real shame.
You should do like other historical maps and start with extra crates to reach 900-1000 food to quickly advance to the next age. As is the case in The Great Turkish War and The Russo-Turkish Wars.
2#
The Lord of the map The Wars of the Three Kingdoms has a pistol. But it does not have a ranged attack and only attacks in melee combat. He should have a sword in his hand.
3#
I find the victory condition of capturing the Livonian villages, from the map The Livonian War, to be too sudden.
A timer, even a very short one (less than a minute), would be needed to validate the victory of capturing all the villages.
4#
There is a bug that allows units trained in village churches to permanently increase our population space if the enemy captures the village during training. I tested it on the The Wars of the Three Kingdoms map, but i think the bug also exists on the Livonian War map. I reported the bug here :
