Made a post proposing a different architecture arrangement.
Summary:
| African | Aegean | Mesopotamian | East Asian | Roman |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egyptians | Minoans | Sumerians | Shang | Romans |
| Phoenicians | Greeks | Hattusa civ | Choson | Palmyrans |
| Carthagians | Macedonians | Assyrians | Yamato | |
| Babylonians | Lac Viet | |||
| Persians |
- Allow a group to have only 2 member civs, as AoE2 had since The Conquerors;
- Break up the expansion-created Roman group, which only hangs on as a “grandfathered” feature now;
- Move Phoenicians and Carthagians to the Egyptian group.
Deficiencies:
- Despite the Phoenicians’ close contact with Egypt and Carthage’s North African location, they ultimately deserve their own building set, while a Nubian civ would accompany Egyptians better;
- The Palmyran civ still has to play the combined roles of Palmyra culture, the Palmyrene empire, the Mithridatic Kingdom of Pontus, and Numidians (these are all represented by its leader list). No building set could hope to fit all that in.