# The Baltic Powers DLC owned on Steam, but Danish and Polish civilizations are completely missing **URL:** \ **Category:** III - Report a Bug\ **Created:** [September 11, 2026, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471 "2026-09-11T08:48:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/tetsuryu/32/164336_2.png) [@Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Tetsuryu)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/1 "2026-09-11T08:48:42Z")
Hello, I purchased **Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition – The Baltic Powers** on Steam, but the **Danish and Polish civilizations are completely missing from the game**. They do not appear in the Home City civilization list or in the Skirmish civilization selection. They are not shown as locked DLC civilizations either — they are simply absent. My in-game version is: **V. 100.19.18309.0** Steam confirms that I own the DLC: `AppID 4308600 (Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The Baltic Powers)` `release state: released (Subscribed,Permanent,)` The DLC is enabled in Steam under **Properties \> DLC**. The base game also reports: `AppID 933110` `install state: Fully Installed` `BuildID 25040513` `update state: (No Error)` `DisabledDLC ""` I have already tried: - Restarting Steam and the game - Disabling all mods - Testing with a completely new `UserProfile.xml` - Verifying the integrity of the game files through Steam - Disabling and re-enabling The Baltic Powers DLC - Clearing the Steam download cache - Running `steam://flushconfig` None of these steps fixed the issue. I also checked the current game data with Resource Manager. The Baltic Powers content is physically present in the current `Data.bar`: - `DEDanish` exists in `civs.xml` - `DEPolish` exists in `civs.xml` - Both are marked `
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` - `homecitydanish.xml` exists and contains `DEDanish` - `homecitypolish.xml` exists and contains `DEPolish` - `techtreedata_dedanish.xml.XMB` exists - `techtreedata_depolish.xml.XMB` exists There is another unusual symptom. The game automatically creates: `sp_DEDanish_homecity-v11.dat` — only **246 bytes** `sp_DEPolish_homecity-v11.dat` — only **240 bytes** while the Home City data files for my normal playable civilizations are much larger. I deleted/moved the Danish and Polish Home City files as a test and let the game regenerate them. The game recreated them, but the Danish and Polish civilizations were still missing. This suggests that the game recognizes the internal `DEDanish` and `DEPolish` civilization IDs and has the DLC game data installed, while somehow failing to make the civilizations available to my account/UI. Could you please check whether there is an entitlement or DLC activation issue affecting The Baltic Powers? Thank you. PS: Sorry if it’s not perfect, I went through chatGPT to write my topic ---
**Author:** ![Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/tetsuryu/32/164336_2.png) [@Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Tetsuryu)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 9:14am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/2 "2026-09-11T09:14:44Z")
I have the Independence mod as a skirmish choice ---
**Author:** ![Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/tetsuryu/32/164336_2.png) [@Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Tetsuryu)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 10:53am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/3 "2026-09-11T10:53:48Z")
After refunding The Baltic Powers, Steam now correctly reports `No active license found for appID 4308600` and `release state: released (No License)`. However, Danish and Polish civilizations are still completely absent from the civilization and Home City lists, exactly as they were while Steam reported the DLC as `Subscribed,Permanent`. All mods were disabled for both tests. ---
**Author:** ![IkoKnight](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/ikoknight/32/188557_2.png) [@IkoKnight](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/IkoKnight)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/4 "2026-09-11T11:25:49Z")
Hi! If in the future you buy the game again, can you also delete your user folder? You can find it here: C:\Users\Your\_user\Games\Age of Empires 3 DE\Lots of numbers Make a copy first so you dont lose your Home cities, Hotkeys and savegames. If this works, copy them back Let us know if this helps! ---
**Author:** ![Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/tetsuryu/32/164336_2.png) [@Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Tetsuryu)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/5 "2026-09-11T12:23:02Z")
je vais le faire, j’avais fait refund le dlc pour voir si cela changeait ou non un truc ---
**Author:** ![Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/tetsuryu/32/164336_2.png) [@Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Tetsuryu)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/6 "2026-09-11T12:27:31Z")
![image](https://forums.ageofempires.com/uploads/default/original/3X/2/8/28cc19fdbbb9a4783c9a51cfdc70dcc07dc284f0.jpeg)ça ne change rien ---
**Author:** ![Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/tetsuryu/32/164336_2.png) [@Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Tetsuryu)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/7 "2026-09-11T14:05:11Z")
J’ai testé en enlevant le fichier users dans tel fichier comme vous me l’avez demandé avant que je rachète le DLC, mais ça ne change rien et bizarrement même après de l’avoir acheté ça n’a pas DL le dlc ---
**Author:** ![DanielPereira77](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/danielpereira77/32/32515_2.png) [@DanielPereira77](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/DanielPereira77)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/8 "2026-09-11T15:05:50Z")
Could you try to disable all of your currently-installed mods in the in-game mod manager, that are marked as not being multiplayer compatible? Any installed/subscribed mods that fully replace civilization data will prevent HCs for new civilizations from being properly generated by the game. This appears to be the case for some unlimited/extended population mods. ---
**Author:** ![Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/tetsuryu/32/164336_2.png) [@Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Tetsuryu)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/9 "2026-09-11T16:09:04Z")
C’était l’une des premières chose que j’ai fait, mais malgré que je désactive ou réactive après ne change rien alors que par exemple j’ai vu qu’avec ou sans mod je peux maintenant voir les deck des révolutions, preuves que tout n’est pas bloqué pour la mise à jour ---
**Author:** ![Aos](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/aos/32/162141_2.png) [@Aos](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Aos)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/10 "2026-09-11T16:21:28Z")
I disabled every DLC in Steam and launched the game. All other DLC civilizations still appeared in the player civilization list as locked, but the Danes and Poles were completely absent. However, both civilizations can still be assigned to the AI. This confirms that they are missing from the player selection list rather than being shown as unowned ---
**Author:** ![Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/tetsuryu/32/164336_2.png) [@Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Tetsuryu)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 4:24pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/11 "2026-09-11T16:24:22Z")
Je vais vérifier cela ---
**Author:** ![Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/tetsuryu/32/164336_2.png) [@Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Tetsuryu)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 4:29pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/12 "2026-09-11T16:29:22Z")
J’ai remarqué que quand je lance une escarmouche et que je veux sélectionner la civs de l’IA, le jeu crash, avec ou sans mods (que j’avais vérif juste avant) ---
**Author:** ![Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/tetsuryu/32/164336_2.png) [@Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Tetsuryu)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 5:37pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/13 "2026-09-11T17:37:59Z")
J’ai eu le même rtésultat que toi, j’ai désactivé les mods, puis j’ai quitté le jeu avant de le relancer, du coup j’ai pu régler mon souci de crash pour ça, mais par contre les civs polonaise et danoise ne me sont toujours pas accessible et restent invisible quand je veux changer de civs pour voir mon deck ---
**Author:** ![Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/tetsuryu/32/164336_2.png) [@Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Tetsuryu)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 7:02pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/14 "2026-09-11T19:02:37Z")
j’ai réussi à isoler un mod qui seul ne permettait pas de choisir pour l’IA Danish et Poland, en plus de ça combiné à d’autres de mes mods, il faisait crasher lors de la sélection des civs de l’IA ---
**Author:** ![IkoKnight](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/ikoknight/32/188557_2.png) [@IkoKnight](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/IkoKnight)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2026, 10:03am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/15 "2026-09-14T10:03:09Z")
> [@IkoKnight](#): > > C:\Users\Your\_user\Games\Age of Empires 3 DE\Lots of numbers After deleting all your mods, did you try to delete your user folder C:\Users\Your\_user\Games\Age of Empires 3 DE\Lots of numbers With steam cloud disabled? Make a copy somewhere first. I’m worried about a corrupted file here ---
**Author:** ![Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/tetsuryu/32/164336_2.png) [@Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Tetsuryu)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2026, 9:51pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/16 "2026-09-14T21:51:25Z")
je l’ai déjà fais, mais sans succès et sur les avis steam j’ai aussi vu que des gens avaient aussi ce soucis j’avais aussi tenté de supprimer tout cve qui faisait ref à ce jeu et j’ai déjà été tenté de totalemernt supprimer steam et de mle réinstaller ---
**Author:** ![Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/tetsuryu/32/164336_2.png) [@Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Tetsuryu)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 7:38am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/17 "2026-09-15T07:38:25Z")
Hello to you, I finally managed to unblock the Polish and Danish ones. To do that, I decided to uninstall aoe3, then delete all the files related to the game on the main SSD using the search engine (while keeping my personal data from the game aside on another SSD) and before installing the game I just disabled the Baltic Power DLC, I was surprised (and happy) to see the civs of this DLC in lock-up, then I reinstalled the DLC and I had access to these civs ---
**Author:** ![Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/tetsuryu/32/164336_2.png) [@Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Tetsuryu)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 7:56am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/18 "2026-09-15T07:56:58Z")
Bon j’ai réinstallé lmon dossier perso, j’ai eu la mauvaise surprise de voir que les deux civs ont été à nouveau invisibilisé quand j’ai relancé le jeu, je vais refaire la manip et ne réinstaller que les mods, je n’y toucherais pas aux autres données ---
**Author:** ![Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/tetsuryu/32/164336_2.png) [@Tetsuryu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Tetsuryu)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 8:54am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/19 "2026-09-15T08:54:04Z")
c’est enfin bon, j’ai juste réinstallé en fichier perso les mods que j’avais, j’ai juste fait une croix sur tout les autres fichiers ---
**Author:** ![IkoKnight](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/ikoknight/32/188557_2.png) [@IkoKnight](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/IkoKnight)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 11:18am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471/20 "2026-09-15T11:18:11Z")
Happy to see you fixed it! [Next page](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/the-baltic-powers-dlc-owned-on-steam-but-danish-and-polish-civilizations-are-completely-missing/289471.md?page=2)