The new castles look a bit oversized

(Maybe this has to go in bug report, or maybe they appear as intended, I don’t know.)

I checked the new castles in the editor, first I must say they look gorgeous, but I also got the impression some of them are unusually big. So I verified, and I can confirm that quite a few of them look bigger than all former castles.
I took for references the central european castle (all original castles are very bulky) and the mediterranean one (probably the biggest in the game before this update).


Among the new castles, I think the biggest offender is the gothic one: It is significantly taller and wider than the italian one:

Funnily enough, many “barbarian”/steppes castles are quite large compared to the former castles (altough I like their aesthetic a lot):




The Huns castle is actually so large that units can step on it:

(which is also a issue for the Aztecs pyramide, but as a pyramide it is very large at its base without being that imposing)

Maybe this is a design choice from the devs, but in-game it feels weird that these civs, that were definitely not the greatest builder, get such large castles.

A last example: the malian castle (already a large one) compared to the new berber castle. The latter is wider and taller, but another reason why it looks bigger is that ~1 quarter of the malian castle is very tall (the large tower), whereas ~3 quarters of the berber castle is very tall.


I wonder what you guys think of this, maybe I’m nitty-picky. I get the impression this is a general tendency, in comparison most castles that came after de look very reasonable in size, and there is quite a contrast between both generations (compare the tatars and persians castles).

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3 kingdoms wtf

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I somewhat agree with you. Not a fan of the Celt one, but the mod which gave unique castles in HD also featured oversized castles. Maybe they’re going to fix it later.

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The Cuman castle is okay but not a fan of it. The Hun castle wooden dome is pretty ugly.