However the original game was a bit inconsistent there because it included the Yamato (Japanese) which in reality existed around 250 - 700 AC. Iron Age there is more or less equivalent to the first part of Antiquity, I'd say ~ 800 BC - 300 BC (since Alexander the Great is the last mission in the Greek campaign). And it tried to consider a lot of modern nations and projected them to the past.ĪoE 1 went from Stone Age to Iron Age.
I think the game series at that time tried to bridge between the different parts and expansions. So I'd say the time frame is around 5th century to 16th century. Montezuma -> 15th/16th century, Sforza (Italy) 15th century, Francisco de Almeida (Portugal) -> 15th/16th century, Francisco de Orelanna (El Dorado) -> 16th century, Bayinnaung (Burmese) -> 16th century. The arquebuses the Spanish conquistadores use (and the Portuguese have as special technology) were typical around the 15th and 16th century.Īlso a lot of the campaigns take place around this time: This is probably even harder than to find the starting point, but it certainly has to be a bit more than 1000 years after the starting point that we defined.
The Teutons didn't exist anyway as a homogenous people in medieval times.Ī lot of what we see is a retrojection of modern nations to medieval times where no such nations existed.īut to come back to your question we have to make a guess about the " ending point" of Age of Empires 2. Their maritime republics emerged at a territory where long before parts of the Goths were (among others). So when one civ in the game "started" other had already ceased to exist. It's hard to define a clear "starting point" for Spain because they had several predecessors (like the Kingdom of Castile) but even if you don't insist on a "unified" Spain (which became reality probably around the 15th century or so) I don't think you can really speak of anything like Spain before the 8th century. They emerged in part where (parts of) the Goths decomposed before. On the other hand we have civs that "started" much later. The game itself says "Dark Age" which started in the 5th or 6th century. I'd say late antiquity (4th / 5th century). In other Words: The starting point of the time frame has to be quite early. So normally you couldn't have Goths or Huns in "Imperial Age" (or Castle Age, for that matter). Their empire decomposed already in the 5th century.
The same goes (even more extreme) for the Huns. Normally we'd place them more in the late antiquity than in medieval times. So we have Civs in the game that actually stopped to exist in very early medieval times ("dark age") - if they even survived that long. Some civs are even the successors respectively predecessors of other civs.
I think it's hard to tell since Age of Empires 2 isn't that much historically accurate.įirst we have to point out that not all of the Civs that you can play in AoE2 existed during the same time period. r/projectceleste - Age of Empires Online Official Forums - Bug Reporting/Ask for HelpĪrchive of Old/Inactive Channels - WIP - here Other AoE Communities Microsoft Store - AoE2 Definitive Edition.