Not a double standard. Nothing is black and white. Having a fast runner guy isn’t representative of actual history but that doesn’t mean the entire civ isn’t representative of Mayans at all. I learned lots of history from AOE2 while being aware that it is filled with inaccuracies. Insisting on strict accuracy is detrimental to the cause of historical study, not beneficial.
Where is the noble savagery in being able to run fast? Where is the noble savagery in having canoes that can take on carracks?
And they never got a “native council” to fix AOE3. They got Starbucks hipster Anthony Brave and a few other consultants of questionable credibility.
Siege would be the least issue. Mantlets, Sapper Teams, Ram Teams, Burning Poisonweed Throwers/Hornet Gourd Throwers, Ladders, certain units upgrading to climb with Ropes…
There are plenty of options, really.
But yes, making them viable on Water would be extremely unrealistic.
I actually interpreted it as some of the places that the team visited to do its historical research on the aoe4 civs. But perhaps those inca refer to aoe3’s inca too dont know
They had the exact same types of weapons as the Aztecs and the Mayans did, and contrary to the Mexica, they had diplomatic ties good enough that they actually defeated a Spanish Expedition.
This all came fall of 2019 iirc or whenever aoe2DE was on the way. The Relic connection to Elric is unmistakable but I always took it as a red herring to build hype.
The signatures all appear to MS people I recognize — Shannon Loftis, Joe Homes, Evangelos, Jex, etc. I don’t make out Quinn or anyone else from Relic. I think it was MS in-house only.
By the way, if anyone is interested in how Native Amertican civs could be implemented in a more realistic way, so they do not have to be some kind of OP Nephilim that can tank more bullets than Plate Armoured Infantry; check my thread on the subject, and feel free to comment.
dam, that’s all very neat stuff to receive at your mail
Perhaps if one knows whether it was Relic or World’s Edge that did the travels around the globe for the historical research, we would also know.
But again since it’s MSoft’s product maybe it would make more sense to get signatures just from them
ah yes there was a small section during the preview that was about relic. didn’t pay a lot of attention to it, too absorbed with the gameplay.
We shall see if those card postals hold truth other than being promotional material. But it’s perhaps worth to say that there’s no russian civ in aoe2. Just Slavs in general. So…
