Talk:Age of Empires II HD: Rise of the Rajas/@comment-116.202.38.68-20161217180618/@comment-27810937-20161221121605

There are only 4 new civs in AK, including Portuguese. From the rumours I've heard, the reason to include 3 African civs + 1 non-African was because the dev didn't know how to put the civ from southern part of Africa into the game (3 other African civs are representing northern, western, & eastern part of continent respectively).

Before European contact near the end of Middle Ages, the use of horses by locals were virtually unknown in central & southern Africa because of the harsh environment & tsetse fly threat. Their technology were also less-advanced. Putting Eagle Scout for the new civ obviously isn't the solution because Eagle is an exclusive unit for the American civ. So to solve it, the dev simply pick the outsider who make a lot of contact with the Africans as the 4th civ.

But I do agree though that in future expansion, South India region needs their own civ (the current Indians is mainly based from the northern sultanates). Plus Polish, because the current Slavs is too Russian.