And so ends the Time In Chains arc, and so begins a brand new adventure for our perplexed crew. With the exception of 301 and 302, Geoff has been writing every script for the past FIVE MONTHS while I’ve been […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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So, there’s the little matter of Alexander the Great now owning the world to take care of, which is as fine a place as any to start this new arc which will soon have us in a brand new century […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah, pretty much every time Peter faced total defeat it was because he got over-excited about grabbing a new port. The Great Northern War, which ended well, AFTER 25 years of combat and almost total annihilation, was largely a port […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Could have sworn I wrote “sear”, but I have been thinking about D & D a lot these days, so maybe I’ve seers on the brain… One of the MST 3K episodes I used to have on all the time […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The jury is still out on who burned down the Great Library of Alexandria and with it an untellably tragic amount of the greatness of Greek civilization – whether it was Julius Caesar by accident or a Christian mob entirely […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What if the Library of Alexandria never burned? The common route that is considered is the one where knowledge flourishes and things are automatically awesome. However, in every game of Civilization that I’ve ever played, my research heavy civs tend […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Welcome to the 16th century! Home to some of my all time favorite and totally least favorite people! We’re gonna be here for a while, so dig on in!
Ivan was, in fact, pretty terrible. His private police outdid each other in trumping up conspiracies leading first to the torture and death of individuals, then families, then entire towns. At least twice Ivan marched them into a city thought […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While Frederick did actively contemplate suicide a few times during the Seven Years War as a way out of the meat grinder he had thrown himself into, and in fact carried poison with him to effect said suicide if the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think Newton’s analysis is basically true. Given the same four adventurers, if Newton himself had been the leader Frederick and Peter would both have been pragmatically sacrificed hundreds of episodes ago. If Abe were the leader, they wouldn’t have […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…