Worst trolling by the devs tbh…
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Nice. Iirc last year someone mentioned a rumour about a dev interested in northern europe. I’m not sure where I saw that or if it was here or in reddit, could’ve been both. I’ll try to look for it
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The worst part is that it would have to be in all 3 games: AoE 2 and 4 would be the Kalmar Union and AoE 3 Denmark-Norway…
Thematically, a northern Europe DLC would be a miss for me. I would prefer North-MesoAmerica, Africa, Asia (Tibetans, Tanguts), Balkans etc.
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I’d love to see scenario campaigns for East Asian nations, even without new civilizations! Jurchen, Khitan, Korea, China, Japan… Even just five scenario campaigns would be worth the money!
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14 garrison flags. But we have only 12 architecture sets. Shouldn’t there be 2 that are unused?
Among the two, the white flag without the pattern is presumed to be chronicles, and the eagle pattern is presumed to be a new DLC.
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The bottom right one is the old standard flag that is still used by all Chronicles civs
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One is the OG, which apparently is still used by the Chronicles civs. The other unused one is the same as the Vikings’ civ icon
It is known as the raven banner. It’s even the same shape as this reconstruction:
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I recently found some flag file names in the game. Traditionally, the Teutonsand Vikings were classified as Central European**. However, in the current file naming convention, they are labeled as East.
Logically, one would expect East to mean Eastern Europe, but it actually corresponds to the Central Europeancivilization set. Meanwhile, Slav is used for Eastern Europe .
Peculiar. One would assume that if Vikings or split thereof were to get their own architecture, it’d be named North European or Scandinavian. Unless they want to name it “East Germanic”?
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This is a relic of Ensemble times. What we call Central Europe was called East Europe by them, apparently.
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Why none pays attention to Assyria, the first true empire in the history? Or conquests of Cyrus the Great?
Or Parthians, or Sassanids, or Babylon, or Eastern Zhou, or Magadha… Rome is so hackneyed IMHO.
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Current Chronicles are developed by a team that did a mod about the Graeco-Roman period so it’s reasonable to assume they’ll continue with Rome. After that it’s anyone’s guess.
I’d like them to tackle ancient China at one point. Move 3K to Chronicles and add civs and campaigns about Spring&Autumn and Warring States periods, Qin unification, Chu-Han contention, Xiongnu invasions, and Three Kingdoms done properly (no one will miss the current 3K campaigns, the good scenarios like Liu Bei 4 can be salvaged)
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It has always been East(ern) European, at least internally. As far as I know, “Central European” is only used by the players. If you check out the AoE Wiki in Wayback Machine from a long time ago, it can be seen that they also used East rather than Central European, at least before European architecture located farther east was introduced.
This was a tool used by ES:
FE went with East European:
Similarly, one of the architecture sets of AoE1 is commonly called “Mesopotamian”, but internally (and officially seen in the online help of AoE1), it’s “Babylonian”.
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Yes, it’s a very hidden empire if you compare it to Babylon and the three great ones: Egypt, Greece, and Rome, which have their wonders of the ancient world (Hanging Gardens, Great Pyramid, Colossus of Rhodes, and the Colosseum)…
Yes, that’s why… if you move the 3K to Chronicles, that opens the door to visiting the Qin, Han, and Jin dynasties (the classic one, not the Jurchen one, which you reserve for the respective civilization in AoE 2) and the Warring States before that (475 BC-420 AD)…
Yes, basically they took one civilization and when creating the subsequent ones, the respective architectural set became regional…
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East Asian (this is the Chinese/Shang style)
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Egyptian (shared with Assyria and Hatti)
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Greek (shared with Minoans and Phoenicia)
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Mesopotamian/Babylonian (shared with Sumer - logically, since Babylon was a Sumerian city - and Persia, since they were neighbors)
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Roman (basically the civilizations from Rise of Rome, although Carthage should use the Greek set, since it was a Phoenician colony)
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Greece never was an empire until Alexander the Great IMHO. Not a centralized state, but a bunch of polises and colonies overseas with dominant ones and laggards. It counts as “empire“ due to its cultural community, influence and legacy.
Reminds somehow to Sumer until Sargon the Great IMHO, but not land-locked.
Of course, in any case, Greece was what it was because of the Trojan War and the Greco-Persian Wars… Alexander the Great would have been Macedonia by then…
Don’t understand why in your opinion Assyria should have Egyptian architecture, not Mesopotamian.
The same concerning Greek architecture for Carthage and Phoenicia.
It’s not his opinion, it’s how they are in the game.
https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Architecture_set