History of Men


War! War never changes.
-Fallout

Introduction
Hi!

What is this AAR about?
This AAR can be considered as a mammoth project I have been thinking about for a while. History of man will replay an entire string of history, from the Persian Empire till the American domination of the 21th century. Yeah that’s right, I want to pull off a series of AARs that connect to each other, an entire alternative history.
Since I know this is a big AAR and everyone will most likley have doubts ("yeah he’ll start it and never finish it."), I’ll post first things first. I am fully aware how much work this will be, that’s why I will take a slow approche. A very slow aproche. Secondly, I have allready played a test run from 300BC till 1500 AD, and playing that alone alread took me half a year. But I am willing to take my time.

What are the methods?
Since this is my first AAR I’ll have to try a few things out as we go. But this AAR will be written as pseudo realistic primary sources. Certain people will write about something in history. Sometimes they are writing to back up a king, sometimes an aristrocate will write negative comments about a ruler. Sometimes a historical source will be critical with the situation itself. Sometimes it will have lies and plot-holes in it. Some writers might be more interessted in facts, some in myths, and well often enough a writer will be more curious about who the king/emperor/president is having an afaire.
But there will be also historians posting scientific or populistic work about it. You will meet all those persons as we go.
What I want with this method is to create a multi-structual history. I don’t want to simply entertain with jokes or simple dialogs, I want my reader to think and re-live my history with me.

What mods/games will be used?
This is pretty much just an outline. Certain mods may be added or removed. Suggestions are more then welcome
  1. Rise of Persia – One of the earliest mods in the timeframe, this covers the Rise of one of the earliest empires
  2. Megas Alexandros – Well after building this empire there will come this fella called Alexander and he will smash everthing.
  3. Paeinsula Italica – Somewhat in the same timeframe like MA this will cover the first stage of the rise of the roman empire
  4. EB – Being a great fan of that mod, it will cover the domination of Europe and Asia by the Romans
  5. IB – Jumping severall centuries ahead, because there is a lack of mods covering the impirial times, we will see the Roman Empire disintigrate by the various submods covered in IB.
  6. Sicilian Vesper – This will cover the medival times. It will see the byzantian empire being established as a major power and being smashed again. It will see France making the first crusades, and battleing the English in a large war for the french crown.
  7. Viking Invasion – Battles for the dominion of Britan.
  8. Various MTW2-Kingdoms games – I will most likley use the vanilla addon to add some more depth because they use a much smaller landscape. The conquest of america by the spanish will be in it for sure.
  9. Europa Universalis III (with addons) – I haven’t played up to here, but I guess here the first split with the Total War games will occure, since this timescale is hardly covered by any mods. I will play until ETW.
  10. ETW – It remains to be seen if I will use the vanilla game (which I don’t have yet) or if there will be interessting mods
  11. Victoria – I haven’t played this one either, but it covers the time scale from ETW to Hearts of Iron. I’ll see about this as get closer
  12. Hearts of Iron II (III?) – Being one of my favorite history games this will cover the final stage, the war to end all wars


This list is just the first draft.

How will the history be alternative?
This is one of the main questions that has been bugging me latley. I have yet to see how things envolve. But it is obvious that the Roman Empire will rise and fall, so I have to play it for the sake of continuitey. I will not necceserily just replay history as we know it. Things will change, rebellions will happen and kings will be assassined.



What are the rules?
I don't want to outline my rules as of yet. My focus is on roleplaying, not on the gameplay.


This post is also the first attempt, changes may be included.