As the release of the Age of Alexander DLC is getting closer (more below), we would like to tease you a little with a series of "Faction Highlights", short videos for different areas of the map connected historically or geographically, showing overviews of the situation in the period when the game starts. Hopefully they will whet your appetite and encourage you to wishlist it, so you won't miss out on the release discount:)
Let's start with a part of the world many of you will certainly try in your first run, the Roman-Punic domain.
While implementing new features and preparing the map, we realized that the Age of Alexander is way bigger than game expansions that you might be used to. Usually expansions contain smaller maps alongside minor changes or updates, Age of Alexander is much more. It is a huge map, practically a whole new campaign, it covers most of the Mediterranean and extends all the way to the Persian Gulf. It also contains several new unit types and most importantly, it has a number of significant new mechanics that will change the way you play the game.
Considering all of this now, we have enough for a new game, rather than an expansion, not something we realized at the beginning. Nevertheless, we have decided to keep things as they were announced, Age of Alexander will be released as a big DLC for Imperiums: Greek Wars, it is still a greek war after all.
Work on the DLC has proved to be more time consuming than we estimated. We could make a Spring delivery but it would be rushed and the game would not be perfectly balanced and bug free. For these reasons we have decided to postpone the DLC release to the Summer. This will ensure that the delivered game is of the highest quality. We honestly hope that this will not disappoint you too much. In compensation we will introduce another new feature that will be also added to the vanilla game. More details will be revealed in one of our next articles, so stay tuned:)
Enjoy the Spring, because the Summer may be very busy as you follow in the footsteps of the great Alexander.
Yours,
Kube Games team.