(Poll) Between Africa and America, which region do you want AoE II DE visit next?

America and Africa are very under represented. America is not visited since 2013 and Africa since 2014. These regions are very demanded especially since Dynasties of India afaik.

So which one, you want the game visits next?

  • Africa
  • America
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And for America, which part you want next?

  • North
  • South
  • Both (At least one civ from each)
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About the second poll, I assume that Mesoamerica is part of North.

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Why is this not an option for Africa? We have 0 civis for south africa while there is one for south america.This poll is biased.

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Africa is one continent. America is two continents. I heard some countries consider America as one continent though.

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I bet we could have a combined North + South America DLC, with two civs for each. Two of them would have the existing Mesoamerican architecture set, while two of them would have a new Andean architecture set, which the Inca would also get, meaning there’d be three civs in each set.

The Purepechas, Tlaxcalans, and Chimu would be three of them, but I’m not sure who the second Andean civ would be.

People will complain it doesn’t make sense for the age of kings, but i would personally LOVE a Haudenosaunee Confederacy. i would pay dozens of dollars. DOZENS

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We have three kingdoms which makes anything fair game now.

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Never gonna happen in One DLC.

Mapuche?

They would be too similar to the Tlaxcalans.

bad poll. it’s missing the “neither” option. I don’t want more civs added to the game

they belong in aoe3

After the timeline breaking and magic, I am looking forward to USA, Atlantians and Skaven

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Nah north america has iroquois , mississipians etc

Iroquois are the same as Haudenosaunee and way too late for aoe2

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What about muisca? They’d fit

5 reasons why adding more civs is a bad idea;

  1. Increasing steep learning curve for new players further.
  2. All the people who had built empires and impacted history the most between 395-1600 already been added.
  3. More civ means more overlap with existing civ bonuses and tech trees. Thus dilution of the uniqueness of old civs.
  4. Tech trees are not designed to be capable of providing endless amount of unique civs, thus being forced to relying on gimmicks more.
  5. Going more off from the core design of the game thus alienation of the original game.
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Except tibet,which we know will never get added.

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I know that this DLC will probably never happen, and may even recieve some backlash, but I personally would love to see one DLC for non-meso North America, with a Mississippians civ, a Taino civ and some form of Skraelings civ (perhaps the Thule, as an umbrella). The only civs in non-Meso North America that interacted with Europeans during the AOE2 timeframe, can help fill out campaigns involving the Vikings in North America and conquistadors (the Taino are Caribbean, but could also be used to represent northern South America and maybe even be used as a stand-in for smaller meso tribes) and can get a tiny bit of representation in mainland North America north of Mexico, which currently has none. I get its a stretch, but these 3 I think have some level of feasiblity to fill out those areas.

That being said, I think I might like to see some more civs for Africa first, I also think you could get one other DLC in the Americas at least with perhaps Chimu, Tariscans, and…maybe Tlaxcallans (I know they were small, but their role in Mexico during the time of the Spanish conquest was huge for their size) I don’t know the feasiblity of any other civs in South America past Chimu, i’d love to see another one or two and a new South American architecture set, but it may not be feasible.

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Both are good, the order doesn’t matter to me.

Realistically I don’t think there’s gonna be much space for more than a DLC each though and I’m afraid North America will stay someone’s wet dream.

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How? They are thousands of mile apart.

I’m talking gameplay, not geography. They would both have the distinction of being American civs with access to cavalry and gunpowder. Once is a novelty, but twice is stale.

Not as much as Franks vs Burgundians imo. Especially if we get an Andean architecture you won’t may notice the similarities.

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