Celts are already confirmed, Dionde. Same for Phoenicians and Carthiginians.

Ancient Israelites are already in, albeit indirectly, since Assyrians (a cosmopolitan culture which included these people) are playable in the Bronze Age.

Phoenicians AND carthaginians are in? Interesting I wasnt expecting both, I assume Phoenicians are bronze age and Carthage is classical?

Ananashi wrote:

Ancient Israelites are already in, albeit indirectly, since Assyrians (a cosmopolitan culture which included these people) are playable in the Bronze Age.

Maybe. Still seems a little like saying Mexico is in the game because Spain is and Mexico was a part of Spain.

Dinode wrote:

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Maybe. Still seems a little like saying Mexico is in the game because Spain is and Mexico was a part of Spain.

I can't agree with that comparison.

Still, there is a chance we'll see the modern state in the game.

It's just that the actual history of these people doesn't go that far. We do have historical accounts and evidence of Israelites because of their conquest and assimilation by the Assyrians. Prior to that, we have nothing to really go on. Their unique culture developed during this time and only started showing afterwards. Bible as such only gives us foundation myths up to that point. The Bible, Judaism, the Hebrew (Assyrian) script,... all of these things developed as you know them during the Assyrian empire.

Up to that point, it was just another Semitic kingdom which we group under the Phoenician moniker. Who are in the game already.

Agree to disagree I guess.

Anyway, whether we get them at launch or later, what would you say the first three native american cultures to get in would be? I'm thinking Aztec, Mayan, and Incan.

Ananashi wrote:

Olmecs are already a thing. The reveal trailer also has units which look a lot like some sort of North American post-contact tribesmen with rifles.

So at least some of those are getting in as well. 

Incas are a given if they want to represent each cultural region of America (that is Northern plains, South and Mesoamerica) at least once.

Mayans and Aztecs, who knows? Though it would be a shame not to be able to follow up the Olmecs with anything (even if unrelated, like in the case of East Asian cultures) for another era.

Oh man I never noticed that! Those look like Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) warriors, who did adopt firearms.

I'd really like to see Italy, Ethiopians and Soviet Union

YinYan wrote:

I'd really like to see Italy, Ethiopians and Soviet Union

Which era Italy though? Medieval era Venice/ Genoa merchants, Renaissance era Florence/ Pisa artists, or Industrial era nationalists?

grug wrote:

YinYan wrote:

I'd really like to see Italy, Ethiopians and Soviet Union

Which era Italy though? Medieval era Venice/ Genoa merchants, Renaissance era Florence/ Pisa artists, or Industrial era nationalists?

Yes. ;)

Ananashi wrote:

Olmecs are already a thing. The reveal trailer also has units which look a lot like some sort of North American post-contact tribesmen with rifles.

Is that only me, or do those riders to the right look vaguely Winged Hussar-ish?

DNLH wrote:

Ananashi wrote:

Olmecs are already a thing. The reveal trailer also has units which look a lot like some sort of North American post-contact tribesmen with rifles.

Is that only me, or do those riders to the right look vaguely Winged Hussar-ish?

I agree they do look like Winged Hussars! 

I am hoping to see the Incas and the Tiwanaku culture. This last has never been represented and what we know about them is amazing.