Talk:Age of Empires II HD: The African Kingdoms/@comment-129.101.4.133-20150723013306/@comment-26465505-20150730103901

Keep in mind that they'll be making campaigns based on real conflicts, so they'll want civs that they can realistically plug into them. There's almost certainly going to be a new architectural set with more than 1 civ using it.

This means civs that are distinct, but still close enough to each other to have similar architecture and a history of war with each other

Songhai + Mali makes sense in this regard, especially since they trade+fight Portuguese and get conquered by Berbers. Seems difficult to differentiate their wonders though.

I could see a Swahili campaign based on the founding of the Kilwa sultanate, there'd be an excuse to have Persians, Abyssinians, Swahili and maybe Portuguese.