This isn’t really a civ split solution. Just slapping a Shivaji on India doesn’t make them any less of British Raj abomination. Even some of the stupider requests like a Ming/Qing split wouldn’t be solved by this alone. Giving China a Ming ruler doesn’t alter the fact that none of their units are Ming.
It’s also been discussed more in depth here:
AoE4 has now debuted entire “civilizations” consisting of a single individual. While this is obviously a terrible idea, the concept of adding some variety to civilizations via different leaders is not entirely without merit and it could be a great addition to AoE3. The leaders of this game serve only to give some thematic flavour and to trash talk the player when facing the AI so new leaders could be primarily cosmetic. The one area where they could differ is AI behavior, with different leaders …
Currently, each civilization has only one historical figure as its AI personality.
It would be interesting if we could have the other one for each civilization and each AI personality has its own style.
Taking the French as an example, “Napoleon Bonaparte” will tend to age up quickly, prefer direct, aggressive strategies and favour using Grenadiers and Skirmishers, but will no longer be fond of native alliances. While in comparison, “Louis XIV” may be better for treaty games, tends to develop …
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