Add Riders to the War Elephants
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This so much!!! For both Persians and Khmer ballista elephant.
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Small changes that would have a fantastic impact on many levels. Implement them as soon as possible.
This could be done easily as an event mod for the elephants missing riders since some purists would complain but at least an official event mod could push this through.
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Any model for the regular war elephant?
My other thing I hope they change is the peacock. Great they added them but they look like turkeys. They are far too small and they donāt even open their tails at all. What they should do is spread their tails while standing and dropping their tails when running or walking. They need to be bigger the size of the goose at least. The peacock sized animal in game now should be changed into pheasant which would be a wild huntable in European maps. Pheasants were a major huntable then.
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When was the last time we had something like that?
Ideally as far as barbarian civs go I think iād like to see Vandals, Saxons, and either Sarmatians or Alans, and then make a Barbarian architecture set that those 3 civs share with Goths. I think that gives a good enough covering for barbarian civs, and gives us Saxons for the later Saxon period in England as well.
I used to like this idea but as iāve gone on iāve moved further away from it. The later era Swedish golden age is solidly in the AOE3 timeframe, I think Vikings is sufficent for representing the Nordic peoples, and iād rather focus on other stuff (Barbarians as outlined above, a Balkans DLC with Serbs and Vlachs/Romanians, Andalusians (could be tacked in with an Africa DLC, like they tacked Portuguese in with an Africa DLC), and then after that iād probably be content if they never touched Europe again outside of giving old civs campaigns and making an Anatolian architecture for Byz, Georgians, Armenians, and Bulgarians.)
I do think architecture sets should be more of a priority, and the new civ-specific castles and monasteries gives me some minor hope of it happening, along with the architectures in Chronicles. Ideally in order of priority the architectures iād like to see are: Mainland E. Asian/Chinese, Anatolian/Byzantine, Nomadic (for Mongols/Cumans/Huns), Barbarian (for Goths and my Barbarian DLC idea), South American (for Incas, this one may become higher priority if the theories of a South American DLC come true) With these 5 I think we probably wouldnāt need any more architecture sets after that (Sub-saharan Africa using the current African set might be a bit rough if we ever get a Kongo civ or something but its a sacrifice I could live with if necessary) unless we get my biggest pipe-dream desire of a Mississippians civ; they for sure would need their own North American architecture set, that they could perhaps share with a Thule/Skraelings civ, but again, chances of that happening are about 0.001%.
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Seeing the new update giving Stonehenge, what if we would get a Celtic split?
Itās only here because of the competition.
Stonehenge was not used during the Middle Ages for anything.
What is this? I havenāt heard about any such update.
Other new (decorative) assets are Nessie, Royal Albert Hall and RBW Flag. Note that the latter two are not distinct objects in the Scenario Editor, you have to use Modify Attribute to give another object the respective sprite.
Indeed. Especially the ātailā looks wrong, itās just the Turkeyās one retextured. Juggernaut8704ās Peacock looks more convincing than the official model.
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Youāre joking about the Albert Hall, right? Surely?!
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Nope.
As I wrote, the building and the flag next to it donāt appear as standalone objects in the Scenario Editor, one has to replace the graphics of other objects. Why donāt add Royal Albert Hall as an object of its own, wouldnāt be more anachronistic than the Cobra Car, anyway. Same goes for the RBW flag. Or are they only intended to be temporary?
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Why make it at all? This is weird.
Like, Stonehenge I can understand, because even though it was irrelevant during the Middle Ages, at least it existed. But this seems like a lot of effort to go to for something that surely is of no use or interest to anyone.
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Heh, itās a teaser for the AoE2 timeframe being extended to that of AoE3. 
Royal Albert Hall officially appears on the new Thames map, by the way. So, after a map with ancient buildings (Sardis), thereās also one with a 19th-century building nowā¦
Chronicles Napoleon Bonaparte confirmed 
It feels like thereās a joke here that Iām not getting. To me this seems utterly ridiculous. I would probably be more charitable if this anachronistic off-theme stuff was a one-off ā but weāve had Return of Rome, Chronicles, Three Kingdoms, and the game has been criticised for moving away from Medieval contentā¦ And now weāve got Stonehenge, Nessie, and the Royal Albert Hall.
What the actual Hell. The devs have completely lost the plot.
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Pic of this one by chance?
Honestly I wouldnāt worry about it; especially if they arenāt in the scenario editor and you have to do some finagling to get them, theyāre probably solely there for RBW