Realistic Expectations for the future DLCs

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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Not to mention the Vietnamese campaign is almost exclusively Chinese bad guys

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Are new civs still expected to have reached ā€œempireā€ status at some point in history? It seems like weā€™re getting smaller and more specific groups. This is the flip side of the ā€œumbrella civā€ coin, since most of the time itā€™s civs that were part of a larger empire. For example there are plenty of ethnic groups within the region of the Ottoman empire, but the Turks were chosen to represent them at the peak of power. The Byzantine, Mongolian, Persian, Holy Roman (Teutons), Abbasid + Umayyad (Saracens), various dynasties in China were all massive. Some empires were beyond the time frame of AoE2 but seemingly inspired civs (or maybe there were earlier empires Iā€™m not educated on), including British, French, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese.

I genuinely do not know all the history. Maybe there were Polish and Bohemian empires that Iā€™m unaware of. Or the Burgundian empire that was overthrown by the Sicilian empire? Just something to consider for new civs.

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We started the game with Celts so really we didnt have only empires

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We started the game with Celts so really we didnt have only empires

Yeah same with Minoans in AoE1.

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You made me look it up, and indeed there has not been much of a celtic empire as far as I can tell. The celts were at one point very widespread in Europe, with a lot of territory, but not unified under a single ruler. The closest thing I can find to a empire is when Scotland tried to colonize Panama for a trade route around 1700, and it did not go well :rofl:

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