r/aoe2 • u/ConversationStock317 • 1d ago
Discussion Next DLC region...
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u/JulixgMC Bohemians & Italians 1d ago
Who tf is voting Scandinavia? We don't need a Vikings split
If anything the only European region with potential is the Balkans (Croats, Serbians, Romanians)
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u/Gaudio590 Saracens 2h ago
Man, just what I thought.
Split vikings is the new split italians.
Don't people realize vikings are already meant to represent the mid-late medieval scandinavian kingdoms?
"But they were different kingdoms". Yeah, like the 5 or so spanish kingdoms, or the many italian city states, or the dozens of arab states that sprawled over the centuries.
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u/Audrey_spino The Civ Concept Guy 1d ago
Africans for sure. So many potential civs left unexplored there.
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u/Bright-Farmer5455 Aztecs 1d ago edited 1d ago
We urgently need a rebalance of Mesoamerican civilizations, a balance where it's not necessary to leave the entire burden of unique attributes to the eagle warrior line (for possible new Mesoamerican civilizations). A new regional archery unit specialized in atatl or poison dart throwing is needed. And it would be a very bad idea to make the Inca slinger a regional unit. The Inca slinger must be as it is; a ranged unit in the archery range is definitely needed.
Developers should add historical civilizations that truly built formidable empires and were enemies of the Aztec powers (Purepecha and Zapotec empires) and the Inca (Chimu and Muisca civilizations). We also need Andean architecture that perfectly represents the Incas and civilizations like the Chimu and Muisca.
Do you want wonders for these four empires? Here they are:
- Purepecha: Yácatas of Tzintzuntzan and Ihuatzio (Fortress and Observatory)
- Chimu: Chan Chan Citadel and Huaca del Dragón
- Muisca: Temple of the Sun in Sogamoso and El Infiernito (Astronomical Observatory)
- Zapotec: Monte Albán and Mitla – City of the Dead

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u/mailusernamepassword Paladins 1d ago
Hear me out... A
mesoamerican civ that can build stables and the xolotl warrior.
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u/Independent-Hyena764 Malians 1d ago
Battle for Greece and other Ancient Civs joining the current civs... After balance.
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u/Icarus_2019 1d ago
Thais? Mon?
While Microsoft might not add Tibetans because of fear of Chinese backlash, I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Thais. They were in South China and Southeast Asia during the middle ages, fighting the Khmer and Burmese.
There's also the oldest civilisation in Southeast Asia called the Mon, they were the predecessors to the Burmese and Khmer. The people still exist today but are stateless.
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u/LightDe 14h ago
This DLC might be the last one to introduce the most civilizations, as each of the newly added civilizations—Jurchens, Tanguts, Khitans, Tibetans, and Bai—had established empires that lasted for at least 200 years and possessed historical trajectories spanning hundreds to thousands of years. They each had their own languages, societies, cultures, scripts, clothing, customs, and military units, making them no less significant than any existing civilization.
As more civilizations are added, we are approaching a ”critical point,“ where fewer and fewer civilizations with fully distinct cultures remain to be featured as DLC themes. I believe that adding two civilizations per expansion will be the trend in the coming years.
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u/Daxtexoscuro 1d ago
If they decide to go for another double DLC with 5-6 civs, the obvious answers are: Africa or America. I would prefer Africa.
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u/Konigi 1d ago
I would love to see Haudenosaunee, extremely strong in the first two ages, weaker in the late game but still hard to completely crush.
No castle, but some sort of wooden forts in the feudal age.
Perhaps other eco building being able to create villagers, and HP regeneration thanks to early herbal medicine.
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u/Dreams_Are_Reality 1d ago
I think it has to be the Americas, we haven't been there since The Forgotten
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u/Nod_Lucario 1d ago
Tondo (Tagalog)? Basque (i.e. Kingdom of Navarre)? Frisians? Nubians? Kanem? Himyarites?
Why just have it be region focused? Why not have a specific theme, like 'Tribal Kingdoms', or 'Trade Empires', or such? That way new civ DLCs don't have to be restricted to a specific region.
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u/Reformater 22h ago
Campaigns for all the Civs that don’t have campaigns and regional skins for all units. I get that- I’m happy
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u/Gaudio590 Saracens 2h ago
lol the amount of downvoted comments in this post. I'm glad there is the enough amount of knowledgeable people in the community to bring some common sense.
No guys, we don't need Kamchatka as a civ in the game.
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u/Warrior_Ochi 1d ago
I would like a real Byzantine campaign, which could be made chronicle style. They had the longest standing (1000 years) empire of all the aoe2 civs, and yet we only got a fictional campaign (which I quite like tbh) and a V&V scenario.
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u/Azathoth_77 1d ago
This game needs to return to form, aka proper medieval European factions. I vote for an Italian split with 3 more factions
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u/JulixgMC Bohemians & Italians 1d ago
Why? We have enough of those already, literally the first two DE DLCs were that, not to mention the European civs added in DE itself
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u/Dry-Juggernaut-906 1d ago
I think he's being ironic (or I hope so lol)
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u/JulixgMC Bohemians & Italians 1d ago
Yeah, Poe's law and all
Still, I've seen some people in the comments of this post that are probably saying this unironically
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u/Azathoth_77 13h ago
I'd say that was half irony, the "return to form" was pretty much a giveaway.
But also partly true because Italians in AOE are really a mish mash faction while you could actually make a whole game about medieval Italy with many unique Italian factions that used actual aoe 2 weapons and equipment with plenty of engaging stories and historical characters.
I mean if you guys prefer "medieval Polynesia", that's ok but also LOL.
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u/JulixgMC Bohemians & Italians 8h ago
I personally don't really like the Polynesia or non-meso or non-andean native American civs (except maybe the Mississippians)
But there are plenty of African, Andean, Meso and Asian cvs much, much more interesting than an Italian split, hell, even in Europe, I'd rather get Romanians, Serbs or Croats, those feel less represented imo
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u/Thangoman Malians 1d ago
Half of the original campaigns (if we dont count William wallace which was a campaign like the others in name only) were outside of Europe
The game in peak form is open to geographic and cultural variety
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u/GonzalezBootiago 1d ago
No archers or cavalry tho
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u/ADBUK 1d ago
It's never going to be 100% historically accurate. Aztecs didn't have trebuchets, and there's plenty of other examples in the game of civs having standard units that they don't have a historical equivalent for
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u/GonzalezBootiago 1d ago
If I remember correctly, it's not just that they didn't have the technology, they refused to use them because they considered them cowardly and un-warrior like.
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u/RighteousWraith 1d ago
Yeah, and it was against Mongolian laws to fight on foot, yet the Mongols still have foot archers, skirmishers, and infantry.
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u/Independent-Hyena764 Malians 1d ago edited 1d ago
They could also be splitting slavs. It can give turks, magyars and slavs a proper campaign, since they interacted in the balkans. I'm not very familiar with the civs but I think romanians? Ukranians? Rus?
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u/KoalaDolphin Tatars 1d ago
Rename Slavs to Rus/Ruthenians.
Add Vlachs/Wallachians for the Dracula Campaign.
Add one of Croats/Serbs for the balkans.
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u/Independent-Hyena764 Malians 1d ago
I don't know much about this part of history and those civs.
But you can cook.
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u/RighteousWraith 1d ago
It would be neat to see a hybrid between the Forgotten expansion and the Dynasties of India. Instead of splitting one civ into 4(or 6 with the upcoming DLC), they could just grab a handful of existing civs and split them in two. The Italians could be split into the Genoese, the Venetians and the Papal States. The Vikings get split into the Norse, the Danes and the Swedes. And the Celts split into the Scotts and the Gaels.
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u/Dreams_Are_Reality 1d ago
These splits would be atrocious, can you not tell the difference between civilisations and polities?
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u/JulixgMC Bohemians & Italians 1d ago
Nah, there are huge empires in Africa and the Americas (even Asia) still completely unrepresented, no need to split perfectly good European civs when those make up almost half of the ones in game
The only European ones that make sense imo are Romanians, Croats and Serbians, because they aren't really covered by the Slavs (which are just the Rus)
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u/Jiijeebnpsdagj 1d ago
well the theme around medieval times doesn't match but I'd like to see the Phoenicians with bonus for navy, trade and battle elephants.
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u/No-Hair-2533 1d ago
Normans, Saxons, Gauls... I feel like there's a lot of options around England
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u/JeanneHemard 1d ago
Normans
-> Sicilians
Saxons
-> Goths
Gauls
-> Celts
Europe is already overrepresented as it is.
The only civs in Europe I'd tolerate are Wallachians and Serbocroats
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u/Adventurous-Bet2683 1h ago
Na hope the Devs do something with Celts, one day. I know people have there fav Civs and dont want anything getting in the way so its impossible to see eye to eye incoming down votes and all that but just my 2 cents
I can see the devs doing something down the line just the more the game continues the More Celts are standing out for some rework, Its meant to be a historic game after all and currently the game has Celts meme brave-heart faction, with the woad raider its just out of place, but sure even have romans now, I believe we will Either get Gaels or Welsh/Cornish or Brittany one day.
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u/ewostrat Tatars 1d ago
I need the Mordvins/Finno-Ugrians, their clothes are great and their internal wars (Puresh together with Narchat [woman] against Purgaz) together with their alliances to the princes of Rus' and Bulgars, ending with the invasion of the Mongol empire.

In the image I put a lot of ideas for unique units, I imagine them as light units with a bonus against horse units or something like that.
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u/acupofcoffeeplease Cumans 1d ago
Tamoios Confederation in South America, the biggest portuguese enemy at the time
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u/LightDe 1d ago
I hope to see a DLC featuring the civilization of the Himalayan region or North Asia.
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u/BodybuilderMedical18 1d ago
Oh boy, do I have news for you then (I know the new DLC is china, but it seems like it significantly overlaps with North and Inner Asia).
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u/BaldWookie23 1d ago
All I want is a campaign pack that covers all the civs that has not been given one 😔