Talk:Incas (Age of Empires III)/@comment-2248999-20101030082624/@comment-27726014-20170921141635

Adding the Inca and the Aztecs would have been somewhat redundant as they would have been very similar gameplay wise. They are both urban civilizations rather than the nomads with the Sioux and tribal with the Iroquois.

They added the Sioux and the Iroquois because they were prominant during different era's and were very different civilizations.

They likely also wanted to add the new nations to the campaign. The reason they didn't use the Aztecs is likely because of their prominance in the very first act. They couldn't really fit them into the timeline as the generation between Morgan and John wouldn't have had any contact with the Aztecs. Not only that but the Iroquois and the Sioux both occupy North America but the Inca are from South America. They would have to come up with a pretty convoluted reason for the Black family to travel to South America. Since the Inca were pretty much gone by the 17th century and they were pretty remote there is no real reason to make that happen.

Also the Iroquois were a very prominant power in North America. The Inca's were strong but were mostly just an obstacle to the Spanish with pretty one sided politics. The relationship between the Iroquois and the Europeans was a lot more complicated with constantly shifting alliences and countless wars. In the 17th century they were one of the 3 main powers in North America together with the British and the French. That opens up to many more story possibilities. The Sioux were there to tie in to the industrial revolution and to provide a largely cavalry nation which AoE III was somewhat lacking.

I think the reason they didn't add the Koreans is because they didn't have a lot of contact with the Europeans or even with other Asian nations. They were more or less stuck between China and Japan. While they were an advanced and strong civilization they didn't make that much of an impact on history.