Talk:Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition/@comment-32764555-20190708202448/@comment-2003:DB:F3D6:1BE1:9406:98D5:88DF:507-20190805114116

"Balts instead of" What?... if anything, the inclusion of "Tatars" is dubious, as well as the Cumans; one of which is an amalgamation of people (Tatars actually being a name given by westerners, who didn't know anything about that heterogenous(!) bunch), the other being rather mystified alltogether (with no hard data to speak of; if it weren't for some specific games, their dubios fame nowadays wouldn't even be a thing, as they weren't really relevant...ever). May as well go with the Chazars instead.

And there are no Sami people, no Polish (The slavs are clearly geared towardss being russian, verys distinct from the polish; which are, ironically, routing back to Vikings, as far as their earliest statehood goes), no Swiss (no, gotic is not swiss), no Finnish representation, no welsh, no differentiation in the manifold Indian peoples; many Germanic Tribes aren't in the game, like Saxons, like Anglons; heck, even the flemish and (100% late entry) the dutch for that matter.

Who gives a fuck about two-handed-swordsmen from the Sahara, 4 different south-east-asian civs or all those shenanigans. This game was once advertised as "Castles and Knights"; and there's still much missing to that collection. Instead we get brownie-point additions noone asked for...

...man, this rant deteriorated quickly :D