Now that’s a veeeeeeeeeeeeery high chance of getting the Western Romans as a civ, who do you think would be a good character for a campaign? I’m thinking no earlier than 394, the year of the first Alaric scenario.
I’m also thinking about Majorian, as the last emperor who had some semblance of great victories. Do you have anyone else in mind?
I’m lowkey also hoping for an Eastern Roman campaign, like Justinian or Heraclius, besides the Bari campaign.
Note how I’m not judging if it is a good idea to split the Romans in Western and Eastern. We are way past that point, so let’s just enjoy it.
Im expecting a late Roman civ that represents the Roman military before the rise of Islam and the leaks seem to point towards that. They are pointless but still fit the timeline
And honestly I prefer a Roman civ than a Pope civ because Im kinda sick of the late middle ages
My kingdom for not spliting Italy.
Also, Return of Rome would probably not the best setting to introduce a civ that hasn’t much to do with the Western Roman Empire
Conclusion: 150% agree with you
Sure, any campaign between 394 and 632 will be fine…before that you already have the campaigns from aoe 1 (Return of Rome) and after that you already have Tariq and the standard game campaigns up to Bayinnaung…
Yes, Persian surely… the rest would come in next dlcs…
Of course, in fact I have the Apranik campaign, but I haven’t played it yet because I’m playing the Eastern Europe campaigns xd…
Chosroes I would be fine, so you can connect it with a campaign with Belisarius and the battle of Bukhara and while in Belisarius’ campaign you focus on North Africa and Italy against the Vandals and the Goths, with Chosroes I you would focus on the fights against the Hephthalite Turks, the Aksumites and Justin II in the siege of Dara in 573, being remembered as the greatest Shah of Persia since Cyrus the Great (nod to the Persian campaign of aoe 1 and aoeo)…the narrator of the campaign of Chosroes I would be his grandson Chosroes II, who before finishing narrating the campaign would burn the letter of a certain Mohammed asking to adopt his “new religion”…
It is already confirmed for the insiders leaks in the aoe 2 reddit that the Romans will come with their unique castle and the Roman centurion as a unique unit…also of course they fit if they are already in the campaign of Alaric and Attila…
