Talk:Age of Mythology/@comment-30831233-20170322173101/@comment-3171148-20170323024436

Yeah, no

Age of Mythology is set and has a heavy basis in the Antiquity, the Khmer didn't appear until 800 AD, some 334 years after the fall of Rome (which is the considered date for the end of the antiquity, and beginning of the Middle Ages)

And don't bring up the Norse, and how they (((didn't appear until the 700s))) because the reality is, is that dated history of the Norse dates to then because the Norse barely used writing, not to mention the Goths, and Saxons are essentially Norse (due to Danish origin, Huskarls and identical mythology) and are dated to the 200s AD.

An Indian civilization would be the best bet to go with, not only due to being the creators of Hinduism, but Buddhism aswell, not to mention the Ancient Mauryan Empire.

The Khmer are 300 years too late, not to mention they only appeared once in the AoE series, not to mention that modern-day Indians are playing AoM, more and more, so making an Indian civilization would be the best bet to bring in new further interest.

But honestly the best bet would be a Mesoamerican civilization (Toltecs, or Maya as Kran96 mentioned, the Aztecs and Inca are even later, not appearing until the 1200s, and not reaching their zeniths until the 1500s some 800-1100 years after the Antiquity officially ended)

Would like to see a Mesopotamian civ as well, even more fitting, known, would be an excuse to bind and bridge the addition of the Chinese, continue on TNA with a actually related less trash campaign, and bring in some Persian stuff to fight Greeks with, along with Griffons.

The Khmer on the otherhand are a knock-off of India, they aren't more popular, you've just been playing too much Age of Empires II, and assuming shit. Also the Khmer were hindu, then Buddhist, then hindu for a short time, before becoming Buddhist for a final time, there was no both at one time it was one or the other, so having a merged Hindo-Buddhist civ would be really dumb...

Time-wise, Logical wise, and chronologically

therefore your advertisement for the Khmer is invalid, and frankly not a great idea, above reasons wise, and economically (since barely any SE-natives or Cambodians even play VGs much anyway, they're labouring peoples, not sit back and suck money off the government people)