Nah, the entire Caucasus region needs to be represented as well. The Armenians and Alans were also rather important, and there is tons of campaign potential where the lot of them interact with each other. Throw in the Kazars too.
Agreed. None of the current sets fit. I just made this post outlining the style for the architecture set.
A dlc just came out and you already want another one? xd… now speaking seriously, I say that the next dlc will be in the Caucasus, the Balkans or Southern Africa…
Yes, I agree… I would also add Flavius Aetius in the case of the Romans and Tomislav, Stefan Dusan and Skanderbeg in the Balkan dlc…
And he was Jogaila’s father-in-law and Jadwiga’s father…
Yes, in my case it would be Tomislav (Cr0ats), Stefan Dusan (Serbs), Skanderbeg (Albanians) and obviously Dracula (Vlachs)…
I already saw and they are only Slavs…
Difficult, considering that we already have five crusades in the game:
First Crusade (1095-1099): Bohemond in the East (Hauteville campaign)
Third Crusade (1189-1192): The Lion and the Demon (Saladin’s campaign) and Barbarossa’s March and The Sleeping Emperor (Barbarossa’s campaign)…
Fourth Crusade (1198-1204) in Enrico Dandolo’s custom campaign
Ninth Crusade (1271-1272): A Man of God (Longshanks campaign)
Then apart you have the Lithuanian Crusade (1342-1410) in the campaigns of The Dawn of the Dukes…
And Aegidius too, so you have a campaign of 38 years (425-463)…
Yes, that is, they are going to divide another umbrella civ (the Slavs once again have all the ballots) or it will be an exotic dlc (maybe it’s Southern African), but I’ll go with the former…
In this scenario, the Armenians and Georgians are represented by the Byzantines and Persians, which use the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern architecture sets, respectively, yet medieval Armenian and Georgian architecture strongly resembles the Eastern European architecture style (i.e. the architecture style used Slavs, Lithuanians, Bulgarians, and Magyars) as evident with the Cathedral of Ani and Svetitskhoveli Cathedral, respectively.
A more fitting civilization for the Armenians and Georgians is possibly the Huns, since both civilizations originated from Eurasia and both Armenians and Georgians utilized heavy cavalry during the medieval times (which the Huns also have in their tech tree). Additionally, the Central European Monastery is somewhat similar to the Georgian abbey.
Of course you’re right, I had already forgotten… maybe they will correct them in that future dlc…
Yes, but I was referring to the campaign level, but Cyprus also counts…
I’m not entirely sure about that, lots of people are asking for civs that would arguably break the Chinese umbrella for instance.
And I would actually be quite interested in having the community’s opinion on this matter
Hopefully yes. After all, every single civ that was added since Lords of the West already appeared in an earlier scenario.
But dividing the Slavs is less controversial (despite the events we know of), besides nobody cares that Putin bans the game in Russia (it wouldn’t be new either)…
Yes, I think that sooner or later they will touch that area…
With a Balkan DLC, the Slavs would be essentially broken down into Rus (current Slavs), Poles, Bulgarians (?) and potential new civs like Serbians, Albanians and Croats.
The only outlier being a missing gap in the current civilization map, between Magyars, Poles, Slavs and Bulgars, that is the Vlachs which are NOT a Slavic people, but have Latin roots.
As you can see, I actually considered him for a historical battle. He was my second option, but I finally decided Vladimir the Great would be a slightly better option for a full campaign. But I would still like to see him as well in the Battle on the Ice
Just wanted to say (because they’re top of the poll), if civs from South/Central Africa are added they really have to be separate Kongolese, Shona and Swahili. I think it’d be really, really ignorant of the devs to lump them together as a “Bantu” umbrella. Especially after going to the effort of splitting up “Indians”.
Would be a big missed opportunity for gameplay purposes as well because all three civs would play so differently in terms of their specialties. There’s also a lot of opportunity for interesting unique units and also shared regional units (eg: Assegai Javelineers as replacement for cav archers, some sort of light infantry (eg: Thunder Scout or Sanguar Scout) as a replacement for light cavalry (a weaker, faster eagle warrior costing perhaps 50f, 20g). New regional units of course also means an easier time designing unique bonuses.
What I’m saying is I’d like to see southern African civs as their own expansion rather than a pan-African expansion and I’m wondering who agrees
I agree. These civilizations were extremely different from each other
They wouldn’t even have the same architecture.
It would be like adding an Indo-European civ.
I’m guessing there should be multiple African sets, but I’m not sure how a southern African set would differ from the current African set, so if anyone has any pictures, I’d love to see them.