What’s up folks! Over the past few weeks I’ve been working closely with modder and fellow creator u/Hoseinm81 to bring my design for the Vietnamese civilization to life. The result is an incredibly fun civ with a very distinct identity that I think you guys will really enjoy!
The Vietnamese center around “asymmetric warfare” in a way unlike any other civ in the game. They’re all about light infantry, hit and run tactics, traps, and “being a rat” - at least until the late game, that’s when they can unleash some truly awesome gunpowder weapons.
If there’s any Company of Heroes fans here I was especially inspired by the Panzer Elite playstyle - mines, booby traps, scorched earth tactics. It’s an archetype that I felt was sorely missing from AOE4’s current roster - so we made it happen ourselves!
To make my original design work within AOE4’s modding constraints, I significantly overhauled the design, but kept the same essence. Check out the full design here: Download the PDF
My personal highlights:
- Worker Elephants are like Norse Ox Carts from Age of Mythology - a mobile resource drop-off. AND IT FEELS AMAZING.
- Setting up minefields of traps is hilarious and possibly OP.
- Rocket Elephants are 0% based on history and 100% based on rule of cool.
To install the mod:
- Visit the mod manager tab in-game, and look for the Vietnamese mod by hosein81 and hit “subscribe” to install the mod.
- Set up a game and make sure you enable the “Vietnam” tuning pack.
- Pick China if you want to play as the Vietnamese (Unfortunately we cannot create a completely new civ, so Vietnam replaces China currently)
Known issues to watch out for (full list available on design PDF):
- Surrendering/Quitting games as Vietnam sometimes causes crashes for other players - be careful in team games!
- Don’t set AI to Vietnam. They don’t know how to do anything.
- Unfortunately modding tools don’t allow us to add new assets, so all visuals/audio are recycled from what’s already in the game.
Please try it out! You can play against bots (but bots don’t work when they try to play it), or, I especially would encourage you to set up some games against friends. I balanced the civ to be in-line with the other civs in the game. I’m especially curious to see how competitive players interpret the design!
And of course, if you run into any issues, feel free to DM me or comment on this thread and I’ll make sure to fix it. Cheers!
