Please do a Mesopotamian DLC next for Chronicles.
Mesopotamia is the best ancient region arguably and is so underrated. Please do this OR If you do something else please postpone the Romans for later and do an Egyptian DLC with Mesopotamia intermingled.
History moves forward not backwards.
Yes, but I don’t see why you have to necessarrly have the DLCs in chronological order, especially when you started in the middle of Antiquity with the first
I think they’re starting with the famous story that everyone knows. Sparta/Athen vs Persia, Alexander, Hannibal, Scipio, Caesar, Octavia, Commodus, etc. Once all the “very famous topic” will be covered, if the Chronicle saga is still selling well, they can go for larger specter or histories.
I’d love to see old bronze age content, Egypt, Summer, Hittites, even Micenian and Troy myths etc. But it’s always hard to produce a content when sources are unclear. The further we go back, the blurred things are.
They could also move forward, post-middle age content, so let’s wait and see where it goes !
Ancient history is my favourite period. Trust me, we have enough sources on Egypt, the Hittites, even Sumeria to make a decent campaign.
Either they’ll make the Diadochi (Seleucids, Lagids and Epirus, maybe Pontus), or they’ll straight out jump to the Punic Wars (Roman Republic, Carthage and maybe Syracuse).
Yeah and i think Rome is their goal. After that, if it’s succesful, maybe they can go backwards or other parts of the world or perhaps i am too hopeful.
For that time period, all roads lead to Rome indeed.
Well, considering how the story progresses:
Alexander the Great not only conquered Persia, but also all of Greece, and Egypt. The Romans at that time were only concentrated in Italy, near Rome, but they were about to begin a process of expansion, first defeating all the nearby cities, the Latin League (the first real one, not the medieval Italian one) in 338 BC.
Rome would then initiate conflicts with Greece, aided by Pyrrhus (Macedonian), whom we already saw in the Pyrrhic Wars campaign.
He would later initiate conflicts with Carthage in what would become the Punic Wars.
This being the case, there could be other DLCs:
Glory to Rome:
Palestine region DLC:
At some point, they should add the Egyptians. I don’t know which one would be better to go first, but a campaign with the Hebrews would be great, since the Hasmonean dynasty managed to fight the Greeks and Egyptians, so there’s enough material for campaigns and various confrontations.
Also, several things have changed since the Rome Ad Bellum mod: The Thracians will no longer have a peltast as their unique unit, but instead the Rhompaia, an anti-cavalry unit. The Purus are a new addition.
Not the same period at all, it would be during the Bronze Age Collapse.
By the time of Chronicles, Egypt had started its 2500 years long streak of being under foreign rule. Having the Lagids/Ptolemaic Dynasty would be period-accurate (just after Alexander) but it’s a macedonian dynasty, even though they fully embraced local customs.
What I wanted to say is that we will get Roman DLC in any case. That’s why I wanna push for Mesopotamia, the region is the cradle of humanity, hosted so many cool civilizations and is underrated.
But it’s an earlier time, after the Assyrians and Neo-Babylonians fell to the Achaemenids it would be a long period of Mesopotamia being under foreign rule, barely less than Egypt.
Achaemenids - Seleucids - Parthians - Sassanids & Romans, you’d need to wait for a muslim caliphate to arguably have a domestic rule from Baghdad, even though strongly influenced by Arabia.
The next Chronicles will likely be hinted at the end of Alexander.
It’s almost certainly going to be the Diadochi. As that’s the next major historical event after Alexander. It’s not going to suddenly jump back in time, nor will it randomly cover the Levant exclusively and it’s very unlikely to jump all the way to the Punic Wars.
next is obviously Diadochi but for a Chronicle prequel, I think Neo-Assyrian Empire would be nice to have to tie in with first DLC. Neo-Assyrian Empire technically was the first Empire as a concept in history compared to Kingdom with big stretch of territory. Also we didnt saw Cyrus The Great then events lining upto first DLC. DLC could be named Chronicles:The First Empire.
If we have a next Chronicles, which is unlikely at this point. But I think the next one would be a Rome introduction with the Punic Wars with around 12 campaigns
Rome and Carthage is a better option than Diadochi wars.Diadochi might feel too much like 3k as those are not really different civilizations.
Why?
Why would they skip the next big section of battles? And why so many fewer campaigns?
At least back things up with an explanation.
Seleucids are in the Rome at War mod. Egyptians are an easy add as well from the Diadochi. The Chronicles civs are not based on civilisations like the base game (hence Spartans & Athenians).
Popularity is not relevant for Chronicles (unlike the base game has become as of late). The Ionian Revolt isn’t exactly the most well-known period. So I don’t see the Diadochi being skipped purely to appeal to Romaboos.
I don’t know why people think the Chronicles ABSOLUTELY MUST be in a chronological order ???
Because it’s telling a story. They said so at the start.
Because the original Rome at War mod, which this is based on, covered late antiquity. It’s not going backwards to earlier periods, because that’s not the intent.
It’s not like you can’t get back in time when telling a story 
Many books and tales have parts where they go in retrospective. The act of storytelling itself is going back in time.
People have weird logic. The way I see Chronicles is you have the AOE1 time period pretty much and they periodically inject DLCS with 3 civs, campaigns and stuff. Why put unnecessary limitations?