What I hope:
New civs (Architecture set):
-Armenians (Caucasian)
-Georgians (Caucasian)
-Lithuanian Campaign
What I expect:
-Bohemians (Germanic)
-Poles (Eastern European)
-Unique castle models for both new civs
-Lithuanian campaign
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Which other civ would you expect then? Adam Isgreen talked about civs, so we’re getting a minimum of 2 new ones.
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European mounted archers never fought from horseback, they used horses to travel, these military traditions go back since the days of the carolingians. Also modern illustrations are not a reliable source.
This is actually a cuman warrior not a hungarian, the hungarians employed them extensively since they lacked horse archers.
More information on the fresco: The Saint Ladislaus legend in the Church of Homoródkarácsonyfalva / Craeciunel / Krötschendorf, Romania - Pictures of Hungarian & Cuman Soldiers
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Hi! New guy here.
Nothing too interesting but how about Albanians.
“Dawn” in Spanish is “Alba”. That made me think of Albanians.
What I imagine is that they could have a shared team unit like Berbers and Italians. In this case, the Stradiot.
AoE 3 players should be aware of them: https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Stradiot
The Stradiot is the middle ground between the Mameluke and the Hackapell, in terms of both hit points and attack. Therefore, although having no attack bonuses, it is quite a powerful unit. They are effective in combat against artillery and light infantry. Being one of the fastest cavalry units in Age of Empires III, they can also be useful for raiding. However they are weak against heavy infantry, light cavalry, and, being mercenaries, Spies and Ninjas.
Something between the Knight and the Hussar.
Funny thing is taht in AoE3, the Stradiot is a Mercenary Hussar with more HP and Ranged Resistance, while the Mameluke is a hybrid between a Hussar and a Wall, while the Hackapell was a Dragoon with Melee Resistance and huge Hand Damage score.
Neither of them are actually similar with each other, at all.
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I like the albanian civilization idea.
I would expect campaigns for Eastern European civs that haven’t had their own campaigns so far, such as the Lithuanians, Magyars and Slavs, and let’s not forget the Turks who have had a lot of action in the Balkans.
If they add new civs, then they will need to make a hard decision about breaking down the Slavs further if they’re gonna add the Bohemians and/or Poles, or even Wends. The Georgians and Armenians would also make sense and add further depth. Any other nation mentioned in the thread so far I feel is too small to make the cut. But then again, who could have predicted that the Burgundians and Sicilians would be added as civs? They might surprise us again.
Are Bohemians slavs?
Hackappell is the lightweight mercenary and the Mameluke the heavy one. I think that is what the wiki article is saying.
I wonder where does the German Black Rider fit into. Im not a AoE 3 veteran.
Albanian campaign could lend itself to co-op.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Durazzo_(Republic_of_Venice)
The city continued to change hands in the 13th and 14th centuries between the Greeks of Epirus and the restored Palaiologan Byzantine Empire, the Angevins of Naples. Venice once again took possession of the city in 1392, holding it until it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1501.
Skanderbeg is the best candidate for an albanian campaign.
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If we speak about middle ages Bohemians were Slavs in majority. If you look at the Kingdom of Bohemia, Bohemians-Slavs lived mainly in Bohemian and Moravian inland. The borders of Bohemia and Moravia were colonised by Germans colonists (invited by Bohemian rulers). Silesia was originally Slavic but around 12th+ century it was germanized.
However, ingame depiction of Slavs does not fit into Bohemian culture. They were catholics, had latin alhabet, architecture and culture was western European.
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The Wiki is wrong on that one.
The Stradiot and Mameluke are Hand Cavalry, with the Stradiot being just an universal upgrade over the generic Hussar unit, and the Mameluke being an ultra-tanky version.
Similarly, the Black Rider and Hackpell (now Arqbusier, because Hakkapellit is a Swedes unit) are Mercenary versions of the generic Dragoon unit, with the Black Rider being an universal upgrade and the Hackapell/Arqbusier being a hybrid Hand and Ranged Cavalry.
This is much in line with how AoE3 handles Mercenaries, with many being just a better version of a normal or civ-specific unit (like Elmeti being a Merc version of the Spanish Lancer), and another Merc that would just clash in the role, instead being a more exotic variant that is not just an upgrade, but more of an alternative version.
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Bohemians were germanized Slavs, taht were part of the HRE, and as such had absorbed much of it’s general culture.
Thats not fully correct. Yes, German influence was in Bohemia in various aspects. Bohemians naturally took over many German words but Czech language still remained dominant as well as Czech habits/cousine etc. So we cant say Bohemians were germanized. Additionally during Luxemburg rule another influence came - French culture and architecture style.
There was a period when Czech language almost died out but that was outside of AoE2 timeframe - after the end of 30 Yrs war.
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Byzantines could use the same architecture set as Georgians and Armenians.
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Albania is a country created be the GREAT European Powers after the Balkan Wars- 1912 AD. . That is 109 years ago. That is after Aoe 3. Read here :
The Great European Powers forced the Army of Greece and the army of Serbia to leave that part of the Ottoman empire.They wanted to take a part of the Ottoman empire too. But they did not expel the Ottomans. So the Otttomans took the rule at Albania again.
Albania is just a place, as some city. There live Ottomans, Greeks, Serbians and few Bulgarians.
The Duchy of Durazzo was part of Republic of Venice ( Italy )
Do you know- Pyrrhus of Epirus ?? He lived at the place where is Albania. Pyrrhus of Epirus fought versus the Roman empire.
Pyrrhus of Epirus is a successor of Alexander the Great. A Greek who conquered Persia- 330 B.C.
Later, the place where is Albania now, was ruled by the Roman Empire, and later- by the Byzantine empire. But they were Christianians.
Skanderbeg is a Ottoman, Turkish name. His real name was- Gjergj Kastrioti. Also, that man fight versus everybody- friends and foes. And finally- he uses Byzantine flags.
You may see below the flags used by the Byzantine empire - 1200-1400 AD.
The city Constantinople was made by the Byzantines. But, who live at Constantinople( Istanbul) now ??? Answer- the Ottomans. Constantinople was the name of that city until 1916 AD.
Who live at Albania now- the Ottomans( Seljuks).
You may read the news, how Several months ago, Greece forced Macedonia to change the name of their country to- North Macedonia, because Macedonia was part of the History of Greece. It was as a stealing a history from others.
Alexander the Great was Greek.
It is verry possible Gjergj Kastrioti have been a Byzantine or a Greek( the Greeks were part of the rullers of the Byzantine empire).
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Albanian people were around for a long time.
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whoops it seems I forgot ssome options, not that it would change much 
Makes a great scenario then.