Fair enough. It is not like all the technologies of this game were invented in medieval period.
Also, woad raider exists.
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Ornlu speculated that 3 of the 5 civs are late antiquity civs from the 3 Kingdoms period.
While I think it’s possible that there is 1-2 civs from late antiquity I don’t think that it’s 3.
If the Khitans in the campaign changes are just Jurchens then it could be.
But who would that explain the Fire Archer civ? Unless thats a new unit for an existing civ that they just simply didn’t mention in the balance changes?
I certanly hope you’re right about this, having almost half the DLC be civs outside of the game’s timeframe would be about the one thing that the DLC could do to annoy me with it.
Jurchens and Tanguts are 100%. Dali and Khitans are like 99%.
The last one is either Tibetans or Xianbei imo.
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The wonder in that bottom pic of the sneak peak post that people are theorizing is Dali, do we know what that building actually is? Because that obviously would help confirm things.
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I wouldn’t call any of them “100%” until they are literally officially confirmed.
Jurchens and Tanguts have a lot of evidence for sure.
The other 2 significantly less.
We’ll see.
It’s at last evidence that it’s not the civilisation with the South East Asian architecture that can train Fire Archers.
Also worth noting this. Found this from reddit.
This is about the new garbage stable civ. The civ will have 4 new units compared to generic civ - a new ship, Lou Chuan replacing CG, Traction Trebuchet replacing BBC, Jei Huang Cavalry replacing Knight, A new siege replacing Scorpion.
I think the last one is Thai, and have reasons as below:
-a new southeast UI which fits Thai
-elephant archer adjustment fits Thai
-Tibetan could be there but cannot be properly represented by current regional feature nor architecture art, and they probably won’t create that many contents for a single civ
-Xianbei is very similar to Khitan in all aspects, and could be represented by Khitan quite well or they could be emerged into one.
-a new turkish civ is also good for this dlc, but it isn’t Uyghurs, could it be Oghuz?
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There are two types of armour used by Cao Wei, Ming Guang and Hei Guang.
Ming Guang means brilliant armour, while Hei Guang means deep dark armour.
I don’t know what’s the 5th civ at this point. I’ve no idea.
The lack of civ changes in Southeast Asian campaigns and the new Southeast UI contradict each other. There is no 3rd option. Either they forgot to put civ changes in patch notes or they accidentally used a Southeastern civ to show the Fire Archer unit.
Elephant Archers actually don’t fit Thai according to game design. Only South Asian civs have Elephant Archers.
Same happened to Ethiopians, Incas, Georgians/Armenians. They all needed new architecture sets, but they didn’t get them. Georgians with Italian buildings is as wrong as Tibetans with Japanese buildings.
Oghuz Turks are also in campaigns, but nothing shown in patch notes about civ changes in Ismail.
At this point I’m betting on Jurchens, Tanguts, Khitans, Dali/Nanzhao/ and Tibetans. Although Tibetans is based on no evidence.
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You convinced me, a Tibetan civ, yes, seems no other possibility.
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I don’t think it was an accident, I think it was a stand-in they planned to replace eventually.
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Xianbei seem unlikely, Khitans are considered to be Xianbei
Tibet seems the most likely but we have no evidence of it.
Sadly it wont be a Turkic civ since they havent replaced those in Crucible and Bukhara if its Uyghurs or Gokturks
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Yeah, it could be another Turkic civ but it would be extremely weird to prioritize any Chinese adjacent Turkic civ over those two.
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South East Asian *UI. Also how did you be sure that they are not the same civ?
According to Tyranno01 Dali is confirmed based on Fire Archer and the Wonder. Apparently the wonder has Dali symbol/letter on it.
I can’t even tell the 4th. Khitans is not so likely to me.
or intentionally to deceive us.
Doesn’t really matter. IRL even Persians used EA.
Why not? They changed the civs for Kara Khitai in the scenerios, and especially given the Kara Khitai in Genghis Khan 2 are them after Kushluk usurped power, if they weren’t going to be Khitans then leaving them as Mongols would have been the next best option.
IMO Khitans is pretty darn likely.
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Personally I can’t be sure from just campaign civ change. It can be some other civ as well.
I think one of the new civilizations is very likely to be the Di people.
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The fifth nation is going to be the Fire Nation.
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But Japanese are already in the game XD