There will be three new civilizations being added in the expansion.
* India — Has no villager cards, but gets one villager with each shipment. All non-shipped villagers will cost wood instead of food. From the military standpoint, there will be several different types of War Elephants, including the Mahout, along with Sepoys as an infantry unit, and artillery units such as cannon mounted elephants. Their wonders will be the Agra Fort, the Taj Mahal, the Karni Mata, the Tower of Victory and the Charminar Gate. One of India's monks will ride an elephant and heal units in combat.
* China — Has migration cards that allows them to spawn one villager at each town center and village (Chinese house). Only gets one monk to start with. According to some screenshots, the Chinese will be specialized in ballistic and artillery, with units including the Chu-ko-nu (also seen from Age of Empires II), Manchu cavalry and riflemen, and a flamethrower unit. The Chinese will also have a higher population limit than all the other civilizations. It is confirmed that they will not be able to train individual units, but instead, "Banner Armies", from the War Academy, which is a combination of the Barracks, the Stable, and the Artillery Foundry. Banner Armies are a combination of two different units in one package. The "Old Han Army" is a combination of Qiang Pikemen and Chu Ko Nu archers.
* Japan — Can only ship a 2 villager card in the first age, but can send it twice. They also have the Hatamoto Samurai, a very powerful samurai unit that commands other units. They also have the Daimyo unit, which is like a walking Fortress, in the fact that it can continually train troops and artillery during battle. They cannot gather food via herding or hunting, but build shrines around huntable and herdable animals to gain a food trickle, they may still fish. Their wonders are the Great Buddha, the Toshogu Shrine, the Golden Pavilion, the Torii Gates and the Shogunate, which grants the player a Daimyo. As a special advantage, most cards in the Japanese Home City may be sent twice. They have expensive but powerful military units, the backbone of their armies is the Samurai unit.
Each Asian civilization will have monks instead of explorers. Both Japan and India start with two. Monks do not have any snipe abilities, but can stun treasure guardians and most have powerful martial arts attacks. Each new civilization will have the ability to build a consulate to form alliance with European powers and exchange exports. It is also known that the Japanese Monks can build shrines.
The expansion will also feature water treasures, which can only be gathered by naval units.
Minor Civilizations
There will be six new minor natives added in the expansion.
Three of them are Sufi,Shaolin,Jesuits
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