What I mean is to move 3K to Chronicles as they are (don’t even bother to make them more historical, medieval civ takes priority) and give us new ranked civs in their place.
When the Chronicles team is bored with Graeco-Roman stuff they could try to fix 3K civs and campaigns (if they are interested in doing that). Add other ancient China civs like Qin and Chu (the latter would be useful even in the existing 3K campaigns given that a couple of the scenarios feature Chu territories and not a single one the Shu ones…), Xiongnu, Nanman, etc. The campaigns need to be done almost from scratch to present a coherent narrative from the Yellow Turbans onto the Jin reunification, without blatant ahistory. Good scenarios like Liu Bei 4 can be reused mostly without changes (after civ adjustment, he’s in service of Liu Biao of Chu at this moment so the civ of the scenario should be Chu).
Earlier mega-campaigns about the Warring States period, Qin’s unification of China, Chu-Han Contention, Xiongnu invasions and Han Wudi’s conquests would also be dope. All in the Chronicles ofc.