Since Western Rome and Eastern Rome are fully separate in every historical game, Austria and Germans should also be separated to Austria Empire and Germany in AO3 DE - with various military units, capitals, improvements, technologies. Main character of Austria should be young Franz Joseph and ,Germany" Frederic the Great. Austria should have the option to change to Austria-Hungary , game should show more multi-cultural aspect of Austrian Habsburg Empire with Croatians , Czechs , Slovenians , Slovaks , Hungarians , Bosniaks , some Romanians as part of this country. Germany should be more “Prussian” but also have parts of Saxony, Hessia , Hannover and other german states. Nice idea is to add new historical battles including Frederic the Great ( for example Silesian Wars or later battles). If Devs listening community they should do this in the future on some update. Also good option (as Dlc) with new campaign “Seven Years War”. AOE 3 should have more campaigns in the next years i think.
Yes, I agree with everything…I also think that this Baltic DLC will have several historical maps (several from the 18th and 19th centuries):
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War of the Spanish Succession (1700-1715)
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War of the Polish Succession (1733-1738)
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War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
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Seven Years’ War (1756-1763)
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French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)
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Italian Unification (1848-1870)
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German Unification (1848-1871)
Yeah! Also Devs should add Campaign about Mexican-American Wars with Alamo and San Jacinto as historical battles missions. I also want to see full African Campaign and South America Nations Independence Campaigns.
Yes, although I think that for now they will focus on Europe and when they return to America they will do so…we still need to get into the Battle of the Alamo (1836), the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and the American Civil War (1861-1865)…
With two European dlcs in a row and all major powers from the region covered even if it’s though an umbrella, I think they will stop focusing on it for a while after the next dlc. There are many other important civs around the world that are still missing from the game, such as Persia.
Habsburg Austria is nice option for far future. I agree that after Poland & Denmark will be time for Asia , South America and Africa.
Personally for the future i think Asia is the most important area to revisit, I don’t think there is much from the new world i think needs to be depicted and African factions are a bit to convoluted design-wise.
See, this was my idea with Italy. You’d pick an Industrial Age politician corresponding to a major state, and that would determine your Royal Guard unit without changing any kind of flag or in-game demonym, plus the normal bonus. You’d really just be reskinning four of the five, the Pope remains the Pope, but the Papal Guard becomes the Sicilian, the Engineer becomes the Tuscan, the Logistician the Venetian, and the Cavalry Marshal the Savoyard. Same effects and rewards.
Not sure how I’d do it with Germans, though.
Yes, I think that with Europe mostly complete (civs of little importance like Switzerland and Wallachia will remain) they will now focus on Asia in its entirety: the Middle East (Persia-Oman) (with Oman they can include maps of East Africa), Southeast Asia ( Burma-Siam) (I think they will go for this to show what happened after the Bayinnaung campaign) and Central Asia (Kazakhs and Uzbeks) (to have nomadic civs)…then they can focus on South America: Brazil and Argentina on one side and Tupi and Mapuche on the other…and Africa:Bormu and Sudanese on one side and Kongo and Zulus (or Merina) on the other…
Ideally, I think the devs should switch from one continent to another with each dlc rather than releasing three or four on the same continent in a row. For instance Middle East => South/Central Africa => SEA => South America, etc. If anything, it would help keep things fresh.
Also, I agree with all the civs you listed but there are so much more I’d like to see… Koreans, Vietnamese and Moroccans, to begin with.
Devs said there’s not going to be a German split, that’s why.
Of course it could also be, in fact it would be better, but I feel that they will focus on one continent at a time and maintain continental themes within the same continent… I do not rule out those 3: Korea and Vietnam can enter the same dlc and Morocco can go instead of the Sudanese, considering that they already have the assets and the Sudanese are a minor African civ… in Europe they can also be the Tatars, but counting those from the Crimea…
Remember we had a big controversy about adding the Western Roman Empire besides the Eastern Roman Empire in AoE2
It would be cool, but only if they mention the reasons Texas was seceding
I mean games about periods when Western and Eastern Rome existed. AOE 2 DE is the game after ancient times so this is controversial if Devs add Western Rome which can fight versus later Italians or Franks.
This may change with the years , they changed many plans in the past beacuse players want something to see. Like new faction packs (not only new campaigns for existed factions like they said in 2019 for example).
AoE 2 went from the fall of Rome to late antiquity in TC with Attila…that’s why Rome fits into the game, because it already appeared in the game since TC, it just didn’t have its own civ…
Yes, I hope MS gives them more resources to make new campaigns for AoE 3 DE… at least Inca and Aztec or Inca and Swedish campaigns…
It won’t. It’s basically the only thing that the devs have said will not happen in no uncertain terms. The plans that have changed are things they decided on without a statement one way or the other, and if we have found out, it’s been through data mining or dev notes in patches. The statements from the devs saying a Germans split will not happen should be taken as absolute, because it is. It was said publicly on the official AOE discord by senior devs.
Of all the things that the devs could do with the limited funds and time they have, why ask for a split or redesign that would functionally destroy an existing civ? Such a move would be quite damaging to the existing playerbase, particularly to people who have be maining Germans since 2005. It would be a disasterous decision from a business and game design perspective.
Oh my how would anyone cope with renaming Germans to Austrians and changing fundamental gameplay elements like home city and leader names?
This would be definitely less radical in terms of gameplay than the recent reworks of Ottomans and Russians civs.
Sure, you can do a Alpine dlc with Swiss and Prussians and rename Germans in Austrians, give Frederick and Berlin HC to the Prussians and Maria Theresa and Vienna HC to the Austrians and that it…