Hi fellow aoe2 gamers,

for a while now I am dissatisfied with the in game random civ picker. I feel like some civs are chosen much more frequently and others are rarely chosen. I dont know if the algorithm tries to find good matchups or somewhat aligns the civs to the maps (I feel more water civs are picked on water)  
For some strategies I also want to blacklist certain civs. For example when I play with my father (he is not playing with the keyboard and only on slow so we play against the extreme ai) we sometimes chose Arena and join our walls to have a protected trading route. In this scenario its bad to get goths or cumans because they have no stone walls. Or you want to whitelist three civs because you are learning strategies specific to them

Thats why I decided to built a new civ picker on my own. One that allows black/white listing, lets you control the chance to be picked of a civ and also remembers what civs you played last and tries to avoid them. (Actually ai generated most of it and it worked surprisingly well. I only improved on some of the design, added civs and images and did a bit of polishing

Maybe this tool is helpful for you. I would really appreciate some feedback.  
I also added preview images for mobile and desktop as well as a video with a quick feature overview. 

Tool: [https://felixselter.github.io/aoe2-civ-selector/](https://felixselter.github.io/aoe2-civ-selector/)

Demo: [https://streamable.com/y4xaxi](https://streamable.com/y4xaxi)

Github: [https://felixselter.github.io/aoe2-civ-selector/](https://felixselter.github.io/aoe2-civ-selector/)

Thanks to everyone who keeps this beautiful game alive

[Tool] Better random civ picker (blacklist, whitelist, control percentage, can remember past games)