Quote Originally Posted by Nightmare View Post
You really believe that, or are you joking (I can't tell)?
Why not? After all there is plenty of what if left within the constraints of the historical parameters.

Historical accuracy can't be viewed as anything except "background" or "flavor" for the game, otherwise you might as well make the game a simple script that runs like a movie, showing you all the events that occurred until Rome took over all of Europe, with no interaction allowed by the player at all (therefore, no ability to change any event that occurred).
Why? We do not actually know how it all happened, there are plenty of questions left. So the best we can do is to replicate the boundary conditions as far as we know them, and proposee a theory or vision if you will that accounts for the variables which are beyond us.