Recent content by Rousseau

To be fair, the game won't actually be finished until about two years after release, after a boatload of patches and a ridiculous amount of DLCs (that are mostly just glorified mods) are put out. So, I'm not upset.

I think it's certainly possible. During the Civil War, there were numerous instances of slaves being seized by Union generals from southern slaveholders. For the most part, these were grouped into Freedmen's colonies following emancipation, when their definition was thus legally changed from...

Speaking broadly, the perception of Grant as a poor president is mostly starting to lose traction among contemporary historians. It's sort of viewed as the case that it was fairly unlikely for anyone else to handle Reconstruction any better than he did, and though the Indian Peace Policy didn't...

In OTL, the Saxons which would settle in the British Isles would go on to adopt Christianity fairly quickly and leave behind the majority of their pagan traditions. On the continent, those that continued to live in the territories of what is now north-western Germany however did not Christianize...

I don't see why the Soviets couldn't just construct for themselves a capital, some sort of shining example of the "will" and "beauty" of their dictatorship of the proleteriat. It's certainly in-line with their ideology, and it'd probably look good to carve out a whole new city of a million or...

The American Continental Republic. Boom, compromise and extremely cool sounding.

Belarus joins the Russian Federation promptly upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union, thus resulting in it having a significantly more substantial military force present within its territory.

Poland is hardly comparable to Persia in this case, as its terrain is significantly less conducive to guerrilla warfare and the country itself is much smaller in raw size. Furthermore, it is directly adjacent to the Russian heartland, and so there'll be much less difficulty in controlling and...

What if, for whatever reason, the 53 mile stretch of sea which separates modern Alaska and Siberia were not covered by water? How would the continued existence of a land bridge impact the development of what would become the native cultures of the Americas, and that of future empires in the...

Would it be possible to achieve that by having the war with the Sassanids during the Heraclian dynasty go a lot worse than it did in OTL, twined with an Arab emergence similar to what happened historically?

By what means could such assimilation be averted, or efforts at it made unsuccessful? I'm aware that these Slavic tribes, in many cases, lasted well into the 10th or 11th centuries before becoming very much Hellenicized and integrated into the fabric of Eastern Roman society. Is it possible for...

In 579, according to certain historical documents, Slavic tribes began to pour in from the north into the territory of what is now modern day Greece. Allegedly, the Eastern Roman Empire came quite close to losing the peninsula entirely, though it would eventually be held and reclaimed. The Greek...

Would it be possible to have such a possible third crown simply be one for all Slavs? Wherein the Emperor would be lord over the Austrians, Magyars, and, titular ruler of all Slavs?

I don't really have any proper evidence to support it, but I think that the use of the Atomic Bomb on Germany will simply ingrain the idea of a war of annihilation into the mindset of the German people and military, wherein resistance will in fact only intensify immediately following the...

Adolfgrad~?