I don’t think it’s Uyghurs.
They appear in Genghis Khan, but patch notes only mention civ changes for Kara Khitai, not for “Uighurs”. Not Gokturks or Siamese either for similar reasons.
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You convinced me totally, but if it’s tibetans, have tibetans use EA architectures will be a disaster… a distortion of their unique culture.
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Would Central Asian or Indian fit better? I doubt they are going to have a one-civ architecture set no matter how unique the civ is.
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They couldn’t. Tibetan architecture(and other culture) belong to Himalaya culture group, only Nepal/Bhutan share the same culture with them.
If there need another civ share architecture with them, it could be Mongols. Mongols were highly influenced by them by partially adopting their religion and art in their late days.
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Tibet may be a little bit too controversial to add, considering that they want to attract the Chinese market, adding Tibet may be the last thing they want to do.
Except the Tibetans have a 99% chance of being added based on the screenshots. One of the units has a helmet with a peacock feather, which is distinctively Tibetan.
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It’s white feather guard of Shu Han, a famous troop lead by Zhuge Liang.
Peacock plume is colorful but that feather is pure white, isn’t it?
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I would also love to see tibetans being added but imo there is a lot of wishful thinking here, the only hint at the tibetans are those spearmen but as some people here pointed out they might be something different. Apart from this unit there is no indication that tibetans are coming, i’m afraid…
Tibetans are an officially recognised minority in China, their presence wouldn’t be an issue, especially if other minorities are also there (Mongols, Jurchens, probably most of the other new civs…) so they aren’t singled out as “non-Chinese”.
What may cross the line would be a campaign similar to Le Loi, fighting a liberation war against the occupying Chinese, as one could make some modern parallels. Easy to dodge by picking something else.
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The reason is, for westerners, their most familiar Chinese are estern Chinese, they have no concept about northwest China or southwest China.
In fact southwest China was the origin of Chinese culture, that’s the place where the original sino-tibet language came from (Vietnamese and Burmese also came from that area). And they performed important role in Asian history, for example, southwest Chinese domesticalized the chickens and invented the sugaring technology. (In ancient time, eastern Chinese thought southwest Chinese were not typical Chinese, they said Indians invented sugaring technology, while Indians thought southwest Chinese were not typical Indians, they said Chinese invented sugaring technology.)
Northwest China used to live wite race called Tocharians, they are now merged with other races and northwest Chinese became Turanid. Even in the modern time, even northwest Han Chinese kept some Tartar words in their dialect. They found the strongest dynasty in China’s history called Tang Dynaty. Northwest Chinese united China for several times with very low population, if we get rid of them from China’s history, China’s history will lose very important parts.
And yes, I agree Nepal is very important civilization in human’s history, especially Buddhlism actually came from Nepal. (But AOE II focuses on mid-age, during that period Tibet was the suzerain of Nepal and their early royal families were relatives of Chinese royal families of Tang Dynasty, and in later time, some mongolian nobles mixed with them, the top Tibetan nobles have more or less Chinese and Mongolian blood.)
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Some flamethrower maybe ?
If only we had a better resolution
Edit : maybe a chariot.
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It seems to be a Scorpion replacement in some way since no other civilisation has no Scorpions at all.
But other replacement units like the traction trebuchet are shown instead of the normal trebuchet here.
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Thats all I’ve found so far:
Iron Pagoda (Jurchen UU)
Grenadier (Speculative second UU for Jurchen)
Fire Lancer (regional East Asian infantry)
Boxi (Tangut UU)
Rocket Cart (East Asian Mangonel replacement)
Fire Archer (Speculative Dali Kingdom UU)
Rattan Armored Infantry (Speculative Tibetan UU)
Traction Trebuchet
Lou Chuan (Speculative Cannon Galleon “reskin” for East Asian civs)
Hei Guang
Jian Swordsman
Siege Crossbow
Dragon Ship (Chinese Fire Ship Upgrade)
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The fact is they appeared to be interested in those cultures, want to see them ingame, but do not want to pay any efforts to understand them, since all those images and information I posted were found on internet within 10 minutes. They even prefer a distorted one to fulfill their need.
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1 Where is Jian swordman?
2 Rattan armored infantry isn’t tibetan UU, since Tibetan didn’t equip square shield and rattan armor, but Bai(founder of Nanzhao) equipped them.
3 Lou Chuan means Tower Ship in Chinese.
4 I think there is a chariot unit.
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- We were told in patch notes Jian Swordsman and Eagle Warriors share the “Shock Infantry armor class”
- I’ve been told Tibetans wore peacock feather helmets
They did, but peacock feather is colorful, not pure white as it shows.
Jian swordman, very interesting, that many uniqueness.
Plus: Nanzhao soldier
See “white-feather” of southwest Han Chinese and “Yi warriors”. Featcher does a significant symbol of southwest people.
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Khitans, Jurchens, Tanguts, Tibetans and Thai are the new civs.
I am not elaborating.
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