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So I just started playing this game yesterday, and I started in September 1066 as the Doux of Athens. Then in May 1068 I hovered over to England and saw a bit of an interesting sight. A Norse England, which has survived until at least 1070 as of the last time I used that character, taking the...

With all due respect, are you not also a 'modern armchair strategist'? You seem to try to distinguish yourself from that sort of group, yet really you fit right in. As slydessertfox said, elephants weren't all that useful once the enemy knew how to fight them. They're primarily shock and awe...

I don't think it's a matter of whether any of the European powers like France, England or Portugal would want to help the Incas. I'm sure they'd love to see their rivals and the most influential power in Europe at the time stumble over itself while trying to conquer a (in their eyes) primitive...

A documentary book written in 1999 about the disappearance of famed African-American rapper Snoop Dogg who went missing in 1998 while in the middle of signing with No Limit Records. Many claimed that the deaths of both Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls had a profound effect upon Snoop Dogg, sending...

Sadly, the Romans and the Carthaginians both lost in the First Pubic War to the Japanese and the Brazilians. Shaved culture suffered for over a millennia afterwards.

I nearly spat out my coffee lol I may consider using that as my sig, with your permission.

Fair point. Something would certainly need to happen to Rome then for any sort of surviving Carthaginian Empire. Maybe the Sack of Rome in 390 BC by the Gauls under Brennus is more destructive and perhaps becomes more of a violent massacre of the Roman population? That could remove the Romans...

Depends upon how long Carthage survives for really and the criteria that would be needed for it to survive for a longer period of time. For one you'd need a very limited Carthaginian presence in Europe. This would mean removing Carthage as a regional power in Sicily, Sardinia and Iberia...

A sci-fi drama movie released in 2019 and set in a distant galaxy, the film is directed by J.J. Abrams and follows the story of a slave on a dystopian planet who leads a revolutionary group from the bottom of society to overthrow and remove the oppressive Yger Empire; who rule both that planet...

Even if Ireland is able to resist the initial Norman invasion and kick them out, England is likely to try again at a later date because of Ireland being so close. This is even more likely if Ireland plays a major role in the goings-on in English history, for example if Ireland is used as...

It depends entirely upon the POD, but I think it's highly unlikely. You'd really need to mess with the whole Anglo-Saxon migration to Britain to make a surviving Scotland retain its Scots Gaelic as the first language as opposed to English or some other alternative Germanic language (i.e. Norse...

Is there any particular reason for that? I don't see what could have drawn what surely should have been a sizeable number of Welsh people (to maintain the existence of the Welsh language there) to a land as far away and as foreign as Patagonia. I'm even more surprised that it's been there for...

Really? I thought that Welsh had been slowly dying out for centuries and had only just recently started experiencing a big revival. Apparently there are 740,000 people worldwide who speak Welsh, with 580,000 of them living in Wales itself. What's funny (and sounds hilariously ASB) is the fact...

Precisely, which is why Ireland may well survive as the only remaining country with a 'true' Celtic language and culture, so long as the Anglo-Saxons (if they invade Britain) don't export their culture too much onto Ireland via trade or other means. On the other hand, Ireland seems too close...

An erotic/romantic/period drama fiction book set in 19th Century Paris and written in 1952 by British author Julianne Sanderson, it garnered much criticism by the newspapers and book critics of the 50s for what was then regarded as particularly explicit content. It was almost immediately...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Imperial Russia was never really one for establishing overseas colonies... On top of this, considering there is no other significant Eastern Orthodox country remaining by 1492 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire 39 years prior (who never had a chance for overseas...

If the Romans are destroyed early on and the Huns invade Europe and push the Germanic tribes west like they did in OTL, then you may have a Celto-Germanic hybrid language and culture emerge in Gaul and possibly Iberia and northern Italy if they get pushed that far. The same may very well happen...

Yeah succession was always a big problem for Rome. You know that the system of succession sucks when you can have three or five Emperors in a single year.... Corruption in both the Senate, Praetorian Guard, etc, was one of the major factors that led to the downfall of the empire, so if you can...

Now this isn't in the whole "Templars went underground and survive to this very day" conspiracy sort of thing. What I mean is, what would happen if Pope Clement V ignored King Philip IV of France and chose NOT to suppress, arrest, exterminate and disband the Order of the Temple aka the Knights...

An instructional book written during the 1970s teaching readers how to make the best use of any close combat weapons they may possess, ranging from small daggers up to warhammers. The book makes use of techniques that have existed since the Classical Age of Greece and beyond. Typically, it is...