At least with Serbs we could finally have the definitive Daut civ.
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Byzantine Champions (and Paladins) represent the western european Latinikon tagmata, employed by the Byzantines for generations.
Weren’t latinikon usually on horseback?
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I’ll even add that champions use the two handed sword and the two handed sword is from the 1500’s
I think the champion is like the Landschkenet of AoE 3…
AoE2 Two-handed Swordsmen are AoE3 Doppelsoldners
This comes from Ensemble times, but there isn’t a ‘Champion’ military unit, so I’ll just assume that Champions have a Two-handed sword, too
I suppose AoE2 Cavaliers are AoE3 Elmetto, but actually not the Elmetto but the Robber Knight but actually not Robbing. But then, Knight and Cavalier mean the same thing, and Paladins were just members of a Frankish order and also Roman officials, but called Palatinus, and there were also Gothic Palatinus modeled after the Roman ones aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh
Sure sure…i think the same…
Clearly its time to make 2h sword units regional!!!
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They were feudal knights used to fight both on foot as heavy infantry, or as cavalry.
The trend of making very large swords started in the 14th century.
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You are right. My mistake. I have been living a lie for the last 34 years
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35 years soon unless truth changed to lies
The Slavs clearly represent the Eastern Slavs (the so-called Rus’ nations) now. The Carpathian states like Rumania have slightly different customs and even their mother tongue itself is different from Slavic.
In the case of Serbs and Croats, although they are part Slavic speakers, they are also residents of the Balkans, and therefore Mediterranean architecture suits them.
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Yes for Croats, but not for Serbs. Serbs had different architecture, so eastern European set suits them better, but it would be best and most accurate if there was newly created Byzantine set.
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I think Eastern European & Mediterranean sets should be broken down into more.
We have:
Eastern European: Bohemians, Bulgarians, Lithuanians, Magyars, Pole, Slavs(Ruthenians), Romanians.
Mediterranean: Armenians, Byzantines, Georgians, Italians, Portuguese, Romans, Sicilians, Spanish, Croats.
I suggest making a new set:
Balkans set: Bulgarians, Serbs, Byzantines, Armenians, Georgians. (more close than with Spanish or Bohemians)
Bohemians → Moved to Central European.
As for the new civs:
############## ####### → Eastern European set
Romanians → Eastern European set
Serbs → Balkans set
Croats → Mediterranean set
This will lead to a more reasonable:
Central European → 5 civs (HRE focused)
Eastern European → 5 civs
Mediterranean → 6 civs (Italy & Iberia focused)
Balkans → 5 civs (Byzantine focused → All 4 other civs were under the Byzantine Empire at some point, so their buildings style were influenced by the Byzantines)
I know it’s not 100% accurate, and will never be. Romania for example had a mix of Slavic, Byzantine and Gothic style, what are you going to do with that? each country is it’s own thing, so a 100% accuracy wouldn’t work. But this is certainly better than saying that the Spanish & Armenians had the same architecture set.
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For Croatians civ Mediterranean Architecture Set is suit, but definitely not for Serbs. Serbs are Orthodox nation with strong Byzantine influence - so potential brand new Byzantine Architecture Set work much more for them.
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Great ideas - common sense.
Although it would be a dream to divide the Mediterranean Architecture Set into Iberian and Italian Architecture Sets + a separate Caucasian Architecture Set from Byzantine Architecture Set. Add to all this the Northern European (Scandinavian) and Nomadic (Steppe) Architecture Sets and it would be perfect.
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That’s true, however, I don’t think the devs are going to make that many new architecture sets for no new civs. Having 1 new architecture set however is a reasonable request.
fixed it for you 
We shouldnt have to pay only for a single new architecture set. That would be silly
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