I made a thread about New Generic Unit ideas a while ago.
There is a lot of overlap between your list and my list.
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With a Vietnamese civ appearing in Return of Rome, it should be just called Viets rather than Lac Viets because I donāt expect that any civ within AoE1 and 2 be having more than one word in their name.
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I agree, I was literally startled by the name when I saw it in the trailer lol. Itās a bit weird.
The Lac Viet are fineā¦because they are the Vietnamese of the Iron Ageā¦
All the other Asian civs have ancient names too instead of Chinese, Koreans and Japanese.
The problem with the name is rather it being two words, itās very unusual and unprecedented in Age1 and 2. I donāt know what the designers were smoking but itās funny nonetheless to see peopleās reactions 
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Oh, yeah, you really need to be on drugs to have such a crazy idea asā¦ checks notes ā¦giving a civ a two words name.
Please rename Romans civ into Senatus Populus Que Roman^o^us civ.
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AoE1 and 2 were traditionally not about civs using more than one word and that is fine. So yeah, the designers shouldāve thought better. If a civ in AoE1 is a have a name with more than one word, then so should a civ in AoE2 as well.
Maybe they should have been called Luoyue, which is another name for the Lac Viet.
But I guess, that there isnāt the āVietā name in itā¦ when we probably know that this DLC is heavily marketed to Vietnamese customersā¦
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Just SPQR would be cool.
Luoyue wouldāve also been good.
Why does it matter how many words civ name has? If that name is historical then its fine.
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- The newly introduced civilization Lac Viet is the first civilization for Age of Empires that has more than one word in its name, and one of few in the entire franchise. It was preceded by the United States in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition, and by the Abbasid Dynasty, Delhi Sultanate, and Holy Roman Empire in Age of Empires IV.
SPQR is the motto of the civ, not the nameā¦Romans is fineā¦
Yes, but Lac Viet is better known at a general levelā¦ otherwise it seems like a Chinese name xdā¦
"Senatus Populusque ########## (SPQR) is the official name of the Roman Empire.
Like āEstados Unidos Mexicanosā instead of just āMexicoā. (Yes Maxico has states too not just the US)
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It is a motto: SPQR meaning is āFor the Senate and the People of Romeā, the official name would be Res Publica Romanum or Imperium Romanumā¦
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No there is no āforā. Itās just āThe senate and the people of Romeā. So it is the name of the Roman state.
A bit weird to use a motto as a state nameā¦
These are all the names of political states, though, which isnāt the convention for naming AoE1 civs. (Not that Iām opposed to the name Lac Viet.)
I find it quite weird that there are countries we refer to as āthe United Statesā and āthe United Kingdomā. Those arenāt really the names of those countries, just a description of the type of country. Itās like calling Germany āthe Federal Republicā, or calling China āthe Peopleās Republicā. (Or, I suppose, like referring to the Roman Republic as āthe Senate and Peopleā.)