this is awesome, thanks. What about a Monk-Defensive one?
Can somebody count how many vacants per unit line?
I wonder if we see some of the Chinese aoe3 units as new unique units for the Chinese civs. (It was the case for India)
Together with the fact, that for the original aoe2, the devs wanted to give china crazy siege weapons, some interesting candidates are:
Flying crow
Hand Mortar
Flame thrower (technicaly already in the game)
Meteor Hammer
Iron flail
Changdao Swordsman
What other UU would be possible?
Does not fit with the DLC formula. No older civ to add a campaign for.
If it wasn’t for the fact that the lead designer prefers geographic DLCs, I would put that as a strong possibility. But I don’t think so.
Plus when you have a geographic focus, it gives a stronger theme to the DLC.
Saracens? Then existing one moved to Kurds.
Not Africa.
Besides, I wouldn’t expect a DLC to be set in the Middle East with what’s currently going on.
The Saracens campaign selection icon is in Africa. Also Portuguese…
It can be a mix like pre HD DLCs.
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That does not solve the problem.
The theme would be the anniversary and celebrating aoe2 as a whole.
Though I do also think that it pobablywill be geographically focused.
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What problem?
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Really? Cysion or who are you talking about?
DoI broke the dlc formula. And so did RoR and V&V, but those were new kinds of dlc’s. Still, it wouldn’t surprise me if an anniversary dlc didn’t stick to the usual design.
That being said, the most consistant pattern since LotW has been 3 new campaigns, no matter the number of new civs or dlc model. That’s what we got every time we had two new civs and a redisign, three new civs and a redisign, the port of another game entirely with one new civ for AoE2 and one new civ for the other game… The only exception was when the focus of the dlc was “new” historical battles, for obvious reasons. So if we can consider 4 or 5 new campaigns, it wouldn’t be heretical to expect an entirely different dlc model.
Personnally, I wouldn’t be surprised with some sort of Forgotten 2 bringing civs that should have been introduced in previous dlc’s, like Siamese/Thai for RotR or Vlachs/Romanians for DotD.
Only because of the situation with the Indians civ. And then went back to it with Mountain Royals anyway.
See the following…
Correct.
While I don’t agree with every choice with AoE2, this I do think is a positive. A strong theme is a good thing for a DLC. Not to mention, that if you have a DLC like this, it lowers the chance of more in the future.
Indeed, but AoE2’s 25th anniversary (and DE’s 5th) is also a special situation.
See the above.
I still don’t think they will waste potential DLC areas.
More civs from East Asia need campaigns than any other part of the world, it can still be a big celebration and focusing on one area.
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The Mamluks were primarily Egypt but also a bit into the Levant. They are indeed considered African because Egypt is in Africa. Obviously a lot of people associate Africa with Sub-saharan Africa and northern Africa as part of the Middle east (which is also not wrong, since the middle east is not a continent).
EDIT: Cairo (Al-Qahira) was their capital.
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My point on current events still stands however.
Right, but “Not Africa” is just wrong
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All of these hours long conversation might ended up in another icon DLC.
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That we know it isn’t. As the voice files were updated when this DLC was added.
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You can see this on the cam folder? What else has been updated, besides voice files?