PhoenicianGold
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AoE2 timeline is 400 to 1600. There are many late 16th century scenarios. There are also the late Goths from Crimea on the Principality of Theodoro, so there are not problam with spaniards amd goths at the same time.
I would love to have a Philippine civ, for me it would be way more interesting than the anglo/greek saturation we already have.
And also the Mediterranean architecture in AoE2 has some baroque elements, which clearly show an early 1600s end date for its timeline
My point wasn't that Spain and Portugal weren't part of AoE's accepted timeframe, but that the timeframe itself was a little overbroad. We didn't need a Renaissance and Baroque period, particularly where so few civs were part of that era.
If use shirt is relevant Andres Guazurarí is an option for a Guarani leader.
And by the way Guaranies are more than "natives resisting colonization". Guarani language is the only native american language spoken mainly by not ("pure") indigenous, with millions of paraguayans speaking it. At the same time many Guarani adapted to european ways and some reached high economic status in colonial societies.
Spoiler Guarani pics :
The Chiriguanos are also an example of this guarani interculturality, since they mixed with their subjugated arawak peoples of eastern Bolivia.
There are also a group of stories from the many regional guarani partialities, that tell ous about two great related caciques at the time of the spanish arrival, the cacique Guairá and cacique Paragua, the former chosee to live on the jungle and the later to mix with the spaniards and live on the fields. For me is interesting to see an extended native national story that acknowledge both the ethnogenesis and relation between Guaranies and Paraguayans, contrary to other stories where "the other" are see as complety unrelated and/or the mixed ones are see as isolated indentity-less.
So their in game design could be worked aroud the idea of mutual cultural influences. Not to forget that the famous argentinian Maté drink is of guarani origin!
I'm not sure how this would translate mechanically or visually. Plus Brazil and the Mapuche already have a sort of cultural angle.
I hadn't yet addressed the subject of imperialism either. All of the civs so far (with Scotland just barely squeaking by) were imperialistic or expansionist. Brazil was practically an empire, and the Mapuche took over large amounts of territory in Argentina. I don't think the Guarani have a very strong history of expansionism; they were a pretty localized people. To that end, they feel more like a smaller kingdom better represented by a city-state. I just don't see the Guarani as an "empire", and until civ moves away from that meritocracy they just don't make a lot of sense as an exploring and/or conquering culture.