Yes, it wasn’t a bad idea either, since you have Charlemagne in VaV and Charles Martel in Tours (and then custom campaigns for both), so we’d only be missing Pepin the Short in the middle of two and Pepin of Herstal before that…
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Fair enough. Most of the guys on the list would be pretty good for the focus of a campaign (except for, maybe, Poppo), so I’d be fine with any of them.
Yes, I remember that Rabord and Poppo appear in the custom campaign of Charles Martel, or at least Rabord appears in Martel’s military campaign in Friesland…
My prediction for late 2026 is adding the Kurds and Tanguts, and moving the Three Kingdoms to Chronicles mode.
None of those will happen unfortunately.
Tanguts seem possible given the loud backlash to Khitanguts, albeit probably not this year.
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Yeah, not this year, but I do hope that the devs go back to the Sinosphere at some point and at least tidy up their mess a little bit; Tanguts and Tibetans civs, campaigns for Khitans and Jurchens, mayyyyyyyyyyybe throw in a Thai/Siamese civ for good measure, and a new Sinitic architecture. Even if they don’t move the 3k civs to chronicles (which i’d be beyond shocked if they actually did, even if i’d be in favor of it) that would go a very long way to improving the 3k situation/mess.
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3k does need to be moved to The Chronicles because having them in Age of Empires 2 mode desecrates what the theme of Age of Empires 2 is supposed to be, which is being mostly medieval and because of that, the 3k are not supposed to be in Age of Empires 2 mode. Now the Kurds, Tanguts, and a new civ that’s part of the region of Central Asia can all be introduced.
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Don’t get me wrong, i’d love to see it moved, but I just don’t see it happening. I could also see other people being mad about it because they paid for content in multiplayer that is then being moved out of multiplayer. I think that portion of people would be the minority, but they still exist.
I agree on having something central Asian, personally i’d prefer something like Gokturks or Oghuz to represent earlier pure Turks as opposed to the Turkicized Mongols that are Tatars or the Ottoman Turks that the current Turks civ mainly represents. I agree on Tanguts but why Kurds? Don’t get me wrong I don’t hate the idea, i’ve considered it myself i’m just not sure if there is enough meat on those bones to warrant its own civ, so i’d love to hear your thoughts on it.
I prefer if Oghuz isn’t a civ because that’s already represented by the Turks civ, which represent the Oghuz (representing not just the Ottomans, but also the Seljuks and Anatolian beyliks). For Central Asian civs, I was thinking more in the line of Avars, Pashtuns, or Tajiks. Tanguts are gonna need to be added while 3k get moved to Chronicles mode. Now why Kurds you asked? That’s because it can fill up for medieval Kurdish dynasties outside of the Ayyubids, but also would be nice if there’s once again, more than four civs with the Middle Eastern building set with the hopes that the Kurds gets the Bombard Tower so there’s once again, more than one Middle Eastern civ with access to the Bombard Tower.
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Isn’t that 2 dlc’s though?
I hope the other one is either Balkan-themed or Oceania-themed. Either one should add a new architecture set. Now that the devs have shown they are willing to do this, the options for regional DLCs have greatly expanded.
We’ve already obtained the new building sets in the final Chieftain DLC, and hopefully we’ll at least achieve that in future DLCs as well.
Personally, I’m willing to pay more for the development of these new building sets.
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How many non-Ayyubid Kurdish dynasties were there though? I mean if the Kurds were relevant enough then a Kurds and Andalusians “Saracens split” would be a good rendition for that. That would be the better way to package Kurds as opposed to with Tanguts though; China and the Middle East should be addressed in two separate DLCs.
100%. Are we sure the other unknown app isn’t the ghost app that has been floating around since before 3k though? (probably the Medieval China DLC before they stopped working on it and put what they had into 3k (I presume, I don’t have evidence but it feels like this is what happened))
I have a hunch it would be Mesoamerican, or maybe North American, but I wouldn’t be mad if it was Balkan or African, but I have a hunch Africa will be 2027. I’m sorry but I don’t share your enthusiasm for Oceania.
I have a hunch we will, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if even if we get 2 main-game DLCs this year we only get one new architecture. I have to imagine that new architecture sets are very resource-consuming. I wouldn’t mind being wrong on that of course, but wouldn’t be surprised if that was the situation.
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Few people do. I suspect that we’ll get it eventually, but probably only after nearly every other DLC topic has been exhausted.
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I believe the Oceania DLC will be very rich!
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Rich in what? I don’t know what you mean.
Huh….hope i’m wrong on this, but that could mean the most recent unknown app doesn’t come out until next year. Though in this second pic here one of those unknown apps has a last update 13 months ago, which is probably that presumable abandoned Medieval China DLC that they wrapped the part they had into 3k…unless both of the apps in your first pic have different ID numbers, I didn’t really analyze that
EDIT: unknown steamID ending 9700 in the second pic you posted is Last Chieftains, my bad.