between what year does the game take place?

[Sheogorath]

Pick all the nits you care to, guys.

Anyways, to the OP: please notice that the game conviently ends just before Napoleon enters the building (don't nitpick this!). It's a likely possibility we'll be seeing that greasy-haired Corsican in a Napoleonic expansion or something extending even further. Who knows?

Not to pick too many nits, but didn't the Egyptian Expedition take place in 1798?

[IsItStillThere]

I'm assuming they are saving the napoleonic era for an expansion pack. Why give the milk away for free?

[Sir Beane]

I'm assuming they are saving the napoleonic era for an expansion pack. Why give the milk away for free?

Very true. Since the Napoleonic wars are what we all want they are the best way to bait us into buying an expansion pack.

If Napoleon doesn't feature in an expansion then the second favourite would probably be the American Civil War.

[Megas Methuselah]

I'm sure the expansion will include a bit more than 20 years of French domination.