Eastern EB?

[Intranetusa]

Well, I suppose if you started during the Warring States period, there could be some decent action without swallowing up the entire map. A bit repetitive fighting essentially the same factions though.

Well you can't really say they are the same factions considering historically each of the states had their own language, writing system, currency, etc...and they each had different styles of fighting, different armors, weapons, etc.

Err, it would be more similar to the Aedui and Arverni. China had no real "other" culture to draw ideas from. The Northern ones never did use much nomad technology, and the only major development in warfare was the adoption of cavalry. But even then, chariots were still the norm.

You can always include the many kingdoms in what is now known as Southern China, and many nomadic factions in what is now known as Northern China, and plenty o Greek/Persian/Indian factions to the west.

and I believe there was a mod in development for the Warring States period (of China)

And yes, now that I think of it, you are right: for the longest time Korea is the only civilized state in direct contact with the Chinese, although I'm not sure how 'civilized' they were back then ;)

I'm not sure if "Korean" identity existed in that time period...

Then please enlighten me. I'm working from guesswork based solely off of China's more homogeneous ethnic background.

Ummm, even today China is far from homogeneous...

You have disgruntled minorities living in the west and south west, and your integrated minorities in Inner Mongolia/Manchuria/Sichuan/Yunan/much of the southern regions/etc. And they've been able to retain their distinctive culture...

Their government lists 55 minority groups (about 150-200 million people)...but the real figure is probably much higher.

Remember that "China" is roughly the size of the entire continent of Europe...and the modern boundaries and conception of "China" is the result of thousands of years of conquest and integration of vastly different people.

(ie. Thai, Cambodians, Hmong, Viet, and Austronesian people all had kingdoms in Southern China before being integrated into various Chinese Dynasties)