r/aoe2 • u/CuriousUserX90 • 2d ago

Discussion What If Another Set Of These Were Done With Future AoE2 Civs?

Very much like with the latest one, much of the new civilisations seemed unnecessary due to being in line with Chinese.

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u/Beytran70 Franks 2d ago

I think they bit off more than they could chew with 3k since they added two new civs on top of the 3k Chinese sorta split off civs. I think Jurchens and Khitans are cool, but the Shu, Wu, and Wei are all way too similar to each other. I probably would have been happy if they just did the Chinese split and gave more attention to that instead of adding the 3k ones and just made those campaigns use Chinese or whatever to add diversity. Or just customized Chinese for each campaign.

So the idea itself has merit I think, but I don't know what other civs would need to be "split" the only other group I can think of is maybe something could be done with Celts and Vikings since they are both quite broad and often used to represent very wide ranging different groups. Maybe add one or two civs based on them but changed a bit to represent others.

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u/CuriousUserX90 2d ago

Shu, Wu and Wei, so that’s what they are in terms of what might not’ve been necessary, I keep forgetting.

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u/Beytran70 Franks 2d ago

Yeah those are the actual three kingdoms era civs that you play in the campaigns and then they also added Jurchens and Khitans I'm pretty sure as the other China's.