[Anonymous Player]

I’m so accustomed to the earlier renditions of the game that would have the player’s name and civilization listed, so it’s been somewhat perplexing for me to only have the symbol now, particularly in CBA where the bonuses and pieces are so important.

Does anyone have any ideas about this?

[andrasq420]

Even Viper keeps opening the diplo screen to keep checking his enemies and allies so I think it’s alright to do so.

Also I haven’t played the game in a few weeks but I’m sure that when selecting a unit it still says the civ in a bracket.

[MtG-Crash]

1.

There is a mod that puts letters over the civ emblem, so you’d see “MON” for “Mongols” instead of the Mongol civ emblem.
2.

You could try testing yourself how many civ emblems you actually know.

You’d be surprised that you probably know quite some of them!

I tested myself with [https://aoe2techtree.net/](https://aoe2techtree.net/#Aztecs) where I’d click on any unit/technology and then click on “Advanced Stats” and that would show me all 42 civ emblems.

Now I can click on any of them and it would send me to that civ’s techtree where I could see the name.

I noticed that I actually already know 60+% of all the civ emblems, and then I just gave myself 10-15 more minutes and tried to learn the rest of them, and repeated that a few times.

Since then I know all of them and thats pretty cool and I was surprised how easy that was (Im usually not good at memorizing stuff).

[estDivisionChamps]

Honestly just looking at the Civ selection screen.

Your brain is better equipped to remember symbols than words and abbreviations.

[stickycart]

In addition to what the others have said, some symbols are actually still used today by many of the civ successors.

The gold trident used in the Slavs emblem is the current coat of arms for Ukraine for example.

Lithuania still has nearly the same emblem for their armed forces, and Poland’s emblem is pretty much their current coat of arms.

There are more examples but those are some that stand out.

[FloosWorld]

I remembered most of them by just looking at the tech tree. 11

[shawn123465]

Celts – The green one cause Ireland is green, Also its made of wood cause they got the wood bonus

Franks – They got the new orleans saints symbol on there cause New Orleans is french

British – Very red one like british red coats

Spanish – looks like that guy’s horse from the spanish campaign

Japanese – Flower shaped cause Japan’s where sunflower’s are from

Aztecs – The other green one cause you play as green team in montezuma campaign

Huns – Badass red on black cause the huns were badass, also they got the horse there cause they like horses

Korean – They got the pepsi logo cause they suck like pepsi

Saracens – Black and gold baby cause they about that money (market bonus)

Turks – They got the moon and star cause they’re the ottomans

Vikings – Looks very vikings-y idk

Goths – Easy to confuse with vikings ngl

Berbers – That shield makes me think of genitours which they have

Magyars – Looks like their unique unit

Portuguese – Same as portuguese symbol in civ 5

Italians – Looks like half of the alfa romeo logo

Incas – Looks like kuzco’s palace in emperors new groove

Tatars – White and red like all the sheep they get

Sicilians – Looks like sergeant shield

Malians – Looks like an african shield

Ethiopian – Looks like a wheel on one of their very strong siege onagers

Cumans -How do you forget that one I mean cmon

Hindustani – Looks like ghulam shield

Lithuanian – Tower shield cause they got that tech

Vietnamese – Looks like maybe you decorated the hat of a rattan archer

Mayans – Idk what that is but its the other mezo-y looking one

Uhh the rest I have trouble with

[Gingerbread2296]

There are mods available that give the initials over top of the logo

[Blocklies]

There’s a mod which puts letters over the symbols so for example I’d your opponent is cumans their icon has a CU over it.

If you think that mod is ugly you can just look at the selection screen for an hour.

Some of the symbols are on current flags too (Portuguese, mongols, Turks, franks technically, etc.)

[raf8465]

i use a mod that add an UU picture instead

[anzu3278]

Knew most of them already from EU4, learned others fairly quickly but maybe it was easier for me cos I already played before DE and the symbols came out so I knew what civs existed.

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