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I would have rather said that it's the closest thing to Game of Thrones: the video game. You win or you die.

Okay, my bad. I did a quick search and this one had indeed slipped under my nose.

I wasn't really saying that this was a smart move. Just that it made sense from Napoleon's POV. The Spanish weren't exactly a reliable ally: they basically were allied to France because they had no means to oppose it. And as I repeatidly mentionned, there is also the case of the leadership at...

The mess with Spain was mainly linked to the fact the Spanish weren't seen as reliable allies. To be fair, Napoleon had a point there because the Spanish leadership at the time was pretty bad: neither Charles IV, Ferdinand VII or Godoy were bright bulbs. The idea was thus to make Spain into a...

Correction: it wasn't that different from the monarchies of its time. That's because Napoleon basically tried to mix the new ideas that came from the Revolution with the old ones linked to the Ancien Regime. His wish was to end the Revolution: by this, one must understand that he didn't want to...

I voted Napoleon because there are a great deal of reforms he made that are still being used in modern-day France. That and I'm kinda biased towards him: I know he had his failings but I can't help but admire the man. It's also the last time France was the First World Power arguably: after that...

Oh it definitely was a silly story. But there is also something called "suspension of disbelief" that we all have to varyiing degrees. And to me, there was a bit too many things that I couldn't buy. The Teslapunk was the thing I had the least problem with because I had already seen plenty of AH...

Eh, Colomb Pacha was worst according to LSCatilina. But I haven't read that one.

Still better than White Star. But yeah... I didn't remember it being that bad but I remembered the story being clichéd in my opinion. I'm no fan of the Bolsheviks but even I found their portrayal overly caricatural from the few pages I can remember. Add all the other details you mention that...

While I won't deny this argument, I will still say that the way they're going about it is still strange and appears to be a bit random. Red September/Black October is the only time in the series where the sequel story came out immediately after its first tome. Even the Omega trilogy was kinda...

Given the first few pages that you can read on Delcourt's website, this tome is apparently the sequel to Republic of Slaves. Apparently, the fact that Caesar became blind forced him into an early retirement from Roman politics, which in turn allowed Pompey to take control of power in Rome...

Sadly, everytime a new DLC comes out, mods need to update to adjust to the new content. The latest version of the Game of Thrones hasn't been updated yet. In fact, aside from the HIP Project, no other mod has been updated as far as I know.

Hard to tell... Probably Game of Thrones because it recreates the setting so well and it's one the mods I have played the most. Quite frankly though, there are a good number of well done Total Conversion and it's hard for me to choose: Elder Kings and Geheimnisnacht are also perfect recreations...

I'd have a tendency to go with Commodus because he was an extremly poor Emperor, was assassinated because of such and his death basically caused the Third Century Crisis. The Severans came after true, but I think the Empire already suffered from cracks resulting from Commodus' reigns.

I don't really see what was more interactive with the old education system to be frank. You complain about "click button for bonus" but how is that exactly different from the old system where we clicked a button to make a decision regarding our child? Not to mention that in the old system, that...

The 27th Tome, Les Ombres de Constantinople (The Shadows of Constantinople) is out. It seems to work in the same way that Notre Dame de Londres (Our Lady of London) did: namely that it doesn't start after a POD but rather details how the divergence happens. The main character of the tome is the...

I wouldn't be so sure about the French monarchy becoming weaker... Sure, they profited a lot from the Hundred Years War but they also had done a pretty good job at centralizing and increasing Royal power. Philip Augustus, Saint Louis and Philip the Fair had all done a pretty good job at...

You can't: Communism didn't exist before Karl Marx wrote his manifesto and, as pointed out, he was born three years after the Restauration happened. You could probably get a proto-Communist or ALT Communist ideology taking over if Gracchus Babeuf's ideas somehow became a majority during the...

It does seem like a possibility. But it will depend a lot on what Henry VIII thinks of marrying his sister to Francis I. Britanny wasn't part of the royal desmesne by the time Anne died: it was still a de-jure independant duchy whose duchess happened to be Queen of France. That being said, an...

This situation probably wouldn't have caused that much trouble in regards for the succession to the French throne. France followed Salic Law, so Louis XII would still be succeeded by Francis I in this scenario. Francis' marriage to Claude of France had nothing to do with "easing the succession"...