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lol, they dont let russia revolt into the hetmanate (but hungary and romania makes more sense) yea russia still has zerg/goths mechanics since release, apparently they are always been strong in general because of that since pros do pick then a lot.
kinda weird they based denmark out of a revolt and not an imperial state, still its nice they decided to finish the expansion and continue supporting aoe3 instead of canceling it like how it was before the dlc wave
Unit count is king in AoE 3 in my experience, so it doesn't really matter that the Russian units are all arbitrarily worse when they can make more, faster. I think to rival their zergness you'd have to do a very specific mexico build with barbarcoa haciendas supplying an endless amount of buffed insurgentes but you're like 4 ages deep by the time that becomes viable. But I'm really bad at the game, so I can't really comment.
I think it's cool that they're still working on it. Especially given that it is definitely less of a cash cow than AoE 2 is. And honestly if I were to model Denmark in this huge period AoE 3 represents, I probably too would do something similar, maybe.
But I would probably make "Denmark-Norway" the main faction, keep the toll mechanic (Because it's fun), so they're a totally normal European faction with one unique mechanic (The toll) and give them some shipments that acknowledge the imperialist dominion over Norway and Greenland (Or any acknowledgement of the role of Denmark in the slave trade and colonial exploitation would also be nice). Then let them revolt into either the uwu smol bean guerilla force with snaphaner, friskytter, watch houses, replacing all their navy (Including fishing boats) with gunboats, just called Denmark, or Livonia.
Just so Denmark isn't uniquely not-imperialist.
i think them, china and mexico are the only civs that go for mass cheap units, but in general only russia and china i seen used (probably because mex is dlc tho) because they are strong. im glad all 4 aoe games get content nowdays, because i think they are the only big rts series that gets stuff nowdays besides starcraft (and i think warcraft will get one too)
they could also give denmark a norway revolt (or even prussia too)
It's kind of a little sad that RTS as a genre is kept alive by this small studio and Blizzard not managing to kill enthusiasm for Starcraft completely.
Oh yeah having an independent Norway would definitely be a good thing to have as a revolt faction for both Denmark and Sweden. I genuinely don't know what their gimmick would be though. Like all I'm thinking is basically just Finland but without hakkapeliitta