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  1. 1453 WIs

    Europa Universalis II. On their webboards, one guy (who's basicly the best player there is) managed to conquer the world. Not as Byzantium, but as Trebizond! Hell, he had to conquer Byzantium early enough to get the event to change to Catholic, so his conquest of Europe would be easier.
  2. Bad AH you just HATE!

    Well, the difference between Europa Universalis (or similar game) and real history is simple: consistent leadership. Real countries have a succession of good or bad leaders. Maybe the bad leader lives fifty years, and the good one carks it after two; maybe the leader begins good, but gets crap...
  3. Chrispi

    Bad AH you just HATE!

    That's why my successful Alexandrian civilization (inspired by Carl Sagan's WI in Cosmos) is not an empire but an ecumene or a loose world confederation reminiscent of the Greek city-states, more like the Holy Roman Empire than the Roman one in that the smaller states unite only when threatened...
  4. Bad AH you just HATE!

    ...survive as a major power is one thing; seeing them pretty much rule the world is completely implausible, unless you are playing Europa Universalis or something to that effect. In other words, the "Roman Empire survives and by 1500 everyone on Earth speaks Latin" (nothing wrong with the first...
  5. A Very Different 15th Century

    This sounds a lot like my strategy in Europa Universalis II when I play as Venice: Use my superior province count to force a dynastic union with Milan, then use the manpower of Lombardy to de-Turkify the Balkans and the Middle East. I sometimes even ally w/ Bavaria to help keep Austria off my...
  6. Bulgaroktonos Married?

    ...when it becomes too hard to raise manpower sufficient to maintain such borders. In those circumstances, the Byzantines might become more of a commercial power than military one, with the military still having reasonable strength. BTW, M:TW rules. Have you ever played Europa Universalis series?
  7. Great Mistakes

    I'm actually more of a late Ottoman expert than early, and I'm not quite sure where I read it, but it was not too long ago - it was in the 17th c, I believe, and the Grand Vizier was planning to build the canal so that ships could be sent to the Caspian to connect to the Central Asian khanates...
  8. Great Mistakes

    Could you eleborate on this more? Thats my usual course of action when I play the Ottomans in Europa Universalis II, expanding into Central Asia.:cool: Interesting that it was actually considered...
  9. Roman Timeline

    ...and "relating to the church")? If your Western Church is using Classical Latin then might it not call itself "sacrarium/donarium/templum universalis/communis", but if not then might it be "Ecclesia Catholica"? Or might they not just call themselves "The Church"? What could be more universal...
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