no it isn’t. the colonial periode aoe 3 deals with at best is to 1876, with the sioux, ironclads as we got them in aoe 3 would have been hopelessly outmatched even in 1880.
Ironclads are still late 19th century, no matter how you look at it.
“Most of the ironclads of the 1870s and 1880s served into the first decades of the 1900s. For instance, a handful of US navy monitors laid down in the 1870s saw active service in World War I. Pre-Dreadnought battleships and cruisers of the 1890s saw widespread action in World War I and in some cases through to World War II.”
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pre-dreadnought battleships are not ironclads, and certainly nothing like the CSS virginia clone we got in game.
your own link is kind enough to exactly tell you what sort of ships continued to be used:
“Most of the ironclads of the 1870s and 1880s served into the first decades of the 1900s. For instance, a handful of US navy monitors laid down in the 1870s saw active service in World War I. Pre-Dreadnought battleships and cruisers of the 1890s saw widespread action in World War I and in some cases through to World War II.”
a monitor is a coastal attack ship generally speaking, something that for example could go up river to provide firesupport for land operations. but that’s not a line of battle unit, and they would have been hopeless vs the predreadnought, cruisers and torpedo boats of the era. but these modern warhips on the same time weren’t good in shallow coast environments due to their size or relative protection in some cases.
A Monitor was just a turreted Ironclad.
“The original monitor was designed in 1861 by John Ericsson, who named it USS Monitor . They were designed for shallow waters and served as coastal ships. The term “monitor” also encompassed more flexible breastwork monitors, and was sometimes used as a generic term for any turreted ship.”
Also fits into the game timeline.
and yet we dont call modern ships monitors do we? and we also can find ships from the cold wars which are defined as monitors.
all of this doesn’t change the fact ironclads from 1880 wouldn’t have been able to fight the battleships of 1900 like say Mikasa of the IJN navy, which was faster, better armed and pretty much invulnerable to the guns of 1880.
generally speaking an ironclad can be seen as a ship that emphasis protection above all else, hense the often quiet weird designs and usually quiet under-gunned, they also rarely are great at ocean travel.
Just guessing what would be the Inca leader? Pachacuti? Atahualpa? Manco Capac?
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Does not matter, at the time, almost any turreted warship was called a Monitor.
Manco Inca Yupanqui?
I would like to stop this offtopic and note that we already know the Inca units roster:
From top left:
- Jungle Bowman
- Huaminca Spearman
- Chimu Runner
- Bolas Warrior
- Slinger
- Maceman
Source: https://youtu.be/GtF7BfCzMlc
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And that cannon? Big Button technology? what will it do?
Chimu Runner: Excellent, it fulfills the historical context very well.
Will the Jungle Bowman be similar to the Arrow Knight?
Is just me or they recycled units from other civs like the Chinese of AOM did with their roster??
i imagine jungle bowmen to be a typical archer unit.
keep in mind forts rarely has artillery in them, and i think at some point we saw a cannon for the inca (i also think we saw a musket man at some point? could be a homecity shipment though).
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The Big Button technology with the cannon icon can be an improvement for the fortress, but looking at it in detail, I would even dare to say that it would give the Incas the possibility of creating cannons.
Although all the military units are present in the image, the “Fire Pit” unit is still missing (like the Skull Knight Azteca) if the Incas are assigned one. I would love Inca musketeers and that could be the unit of “Fire Pit”. However, I think that in the Wololo 2 tournament they left us a clue.
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Probably Falconet (or equivalent) shipment.
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the cannon we saw was a heavy cannon.
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We also saw Aztec military units 
Thanks for that. Nice to see the buildings seem to indicate their attack range? Or would that be some kind of aura?
Even, if it’s not a musketeer unit, we still have ohter options like a horse unit (incas learned to ride horses) or one Elite melee fighter who could use a halbert as we discused earlier, it could be like a upgraded version of the huaminca. maybe
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I rather think it will be the Bolas warrior, no? Of course both would be fitting (unless I missed something)
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They are actually 2 separated units, the images show 2 types of slinger-type units. Bolas warriors have are good against cav, while I can imagine Slingers being good against infantry (probably heavy) similar to Age 2.
This one is Bola Warrior
This is Slinger
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