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7) After The Asian Dynasties, or even before or during its development, was there an African x-pack ever planned? If you still could release an African x-pack, what three civs would you want to be playable, and what would some of their attributes be?

A)During the discussions for Warchiefs I did pitch an African pack. I also pitched an African Y-Pack for Age of Kings, to follow the Conquerors.
The African pack for Age of Empires III that I pitched did not include playable African nations – my theory was that adding the African animals, land, units, and minor tribes would be such a massive undertaking that adding civs as well would be an enormous challenge.

The African pack for Age of Empires II that I proposed would have had four civs:

Songhai Empire – an economy-based civ, emphasizing cavalry & camels. Good monks, and their unique unit would be some kind of tough camel.

The Kongolese – no camels, but would have cavalry. Unique unit might be leopard men or something.

Ghana – a military-based civ. Their unique unit would be female warriors (who eventually upgraded to handgun users).

Ethiopia – an infrastructure/defensive civ. They would have super-monks, and their unique unit would be infantry with radius damage, like the old Dervish.