What about adding ruins and ancient cities to maps?

[BeastlyGnuf]

@TheHermesPrime

Keeping with my theme of starting threads regarding map development I had an idea. Since this is AoE 4…and set in the middle ages just as maps have cliffs and other terrain featues, why not have a map that´s in the ruins of pompei, fighting amongst the degraded ruins of a fallen empire or something like that? Even a Northern themed map fighting aroudn stonehenge or in the old imperial city in China?

Overall, that’s a most terrific idea.

Except there are infinitely more awesome and more ancient sites than Stonehenge, Pompei, and “Imperial City in China”, and at the same time infinitely more fitting to Sultans Ascend theme:

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