Just like we had 3 civs in Dynasties of India, we could have had 3 civs here: Armenians, Georgians and Wallachians/Romanians (same thing). It’s still the same geographic area, around the black sea, and the carpathian mountains still fit with the Mountain Royals name.
It didn’t even need a campaign, it already had Vlad the Impaler’s campaign.
I don’t think we’ll ever have a Serb-Croat DLC since we already have the Slavs civ, and even if they do, maybe they make a Slavic DLC excluding Romania there too. So likely everyone in the region will be implemented in the game before Romania is.
I wouldn’t be so sure. The Slavs mainly only represent the Ruthenians, and a lot of people want them renamed. So that would leave room for a Balkan DLC…once they fill out other architecture sets first.
The theme of the dlc is the Caucasus, not the Black Sea which the Armenians didn’t even lived on. The Romanians wouldn’t fit.
That’s just doomsaying, we also had the Slavs when the Bulgarians, Poles and Bohemians were added so I wouldn’t be surprised if the next European dlc is themed after the Balkans and receive the Vlachs, Serbians and Croatians as new civs (or maybe the Serbians and Croatians would be grouped together as the Sclavenians and we would also get the Albanians) and the Magyars would receive a new campaign. That makes more sense for a DoI style expansion.
Doomsaying again, as you said adding the Romanian/Vlach civ would save a slot for an additional campaign for the Magyars or Slavs (or maybe even the Turks, but I’d rather bet on the Magyars) so I see them as being quite likely added in such dlc.
More seriously, the theme is the Caucasus mountains, not every single mountainous people. The Wari, Nepali and Kashmiri also come from mountains and nobody expected them to be cramed in with a Georgian and Armenian dlc.
There have been significant Armenian populations in the Black Sea. But yes, their culture was mainly in the Caucasus, the Armenian highland and to a lesser degree Cilicia.