these are landmarks, I was refering to wonders.
Here’s the monk clip. I believe the full interview is on YouTube as well. In this Sandy is responding to the AoE4 reveal as part of a much longer interview.
For all of you nerds out there (like me) the full interview is here
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Dude…I was joking. Sarcasm is a thing ya know
They’re the same thing
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wonders in Age 2 make you win the game after a timeout, landmarks are the equivalent of researching the next age.
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This isn’t AoE2, is it?
In AOE3, building wonders (for Asian civs) was the equivalent of researching the next age. Therefore, wonders=landmarks.
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AoE 4 has both wonders and landmarks. They are different things.
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Prove it
There’s at least one image not from the beta where you can see a wonder being built in the final age. I am not going to bother tracking it down.
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No proof, not true
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Ok. Then just think they’re the same until the game comes out and you can see you were wrong.
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Why should I believe some guy who thinks he saw a wonder but can’t find the image it was from?
Don’t believe me, I don’t care. Here’s an article that mentions wonder victory:
I’m not going to go back and watch everything released to find the screen cap.
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Apparently, from an old interview iirc, the devs wanted age 2 relics to have very different traits for each one, giving very diverse buffs - in the end that would have been too complicated but the idea of buffs stayed. So I ASSUME they now gave some of these special buffs as civ bonuses (like relics inside buildings giving more healthy buildings) but also to the different monks (like speeding up research/eco.
It seems they want monks to also be usable as a economy tool, not only relicgrabber and converter, which I think is fine ^^
(Also I LOVE Warrior monks already xD Always played spanish with their missionaries for a looong time as they were faster, and now they can FIGHT! 
)
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Yeah, it adds a new depth of strategy to monks. They’ve taken monks in a very welcome direction.
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I don’t like to micro and play dota…
are they any different than Celtic Druids?
Well we can argue a lot of the monks are similar to units in older microsoft games.
For example the Prelate is basically the Phraroah/priest of the Egyptians in AoM, the Scholar is just a scholar like in Rise of nations, and I’d agree with the celtic druid and warrior monk. It is unclear what the Imam does however.
Pharaoh (Age of Mythology) | Age of Empires Series Wiki | Fandom / Scholar | Rise of Nations Wiki | Fandom
Im not opposed to them reusing older ideas in their newer game. To me its more like “oh these great mechanics are being brought back in”.
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agreed. AoE4 should be taking the best parts of the franchise.
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