Continued from Thread:4586.
Seeing as you're playing as a warlord instead of a warrior or something like that, it'd make more sense as a strategy game.
I see it as being a bit like Civilization, but more realistic and gritty. You essentially play a single character, but you can still order people around and act all high and mighty. However, there are no ages, no wonders, no instant buildings and no population generators.
In this game, you're pretty much on your own, aside from a handful of loyal followers and some slaves you can capture, and you have to figure out how to not only survive, but thrive. Maybe Dwarf Fortress meets Civilization with a touch of Minecraft would be a better analogy?
Inquiry - what kind of influence does the Mughal Empire in India have?
In real life, the influence was huge.
As far as I know, very few nations in Atra Mors have much influence on a global scale. After all, due to some mysterious historical force which we don't really comprehend as of yet, Asia's not good with oceans, and it has the only factions which could really exert much global influence. Basically, what I mean is, does the Mughal Empire carry much weight in Asia, or are they just "that country to the south"?
I've really got my work cut out for me...
Do you think the Taino could've survived Aztec expansion into the Caribbean?
Just like in real life, the Mughal would be fairly powerful.
As for the Taino, the fice tribes probably could've put aside their differances to defend their land, much like how Thebes, Athens, and Sparta all united to defend Greece from Persian invaders.
I'm not sure how certain we can be on the power of different nations based on history. In the 1500s, Dark Age Europe would be the last place you'd think would become a world superpower (what with the Ottomans and the Chinese going strong). Who in the 1700s would have thought that the US would become the world superpower?
If I were to choose, I think China would be the most certain candidate for being a powerful nation. Real world history shows China consistently being one of the greatest civilisations in the world for thousands of years since its founding. Of course, there have been brief hiatuses (on historical timescales), but overall it almost seems as if it's the natural order of things for China to be at the top (to paraphrase Kim Stanley Robinson).