What is the last playable year

[Zarax]

Well, i set it at 1491... Not much later and still in theme (one year before columbus travels)

[Yoyoma1910]

1453 is the year Constanstanople fell to the turks. Also, there were advances in missile type weapons that made cannons and powder based guns the center of the modern army of the time. There was an insurgence of eastern flight to rome, bringing with it many greek and arab texts and schools of thought, changing the face of western culture immensely.

Which is, I suppose, why the game ends then.

[Zarax]

Exactly, plus renaissance and Leonardo da Vinci.

[Yoyoma1910]

Oh yes, also it was the end of the hundred years war... With France kicking out the British and fully recapturing Bordeaux. They were the first Army to use Cannon as a successful deciding factor in a battle.

Henry VI of England went mad, and the war of the roses ensued. And so, the British were no longer on the continent.

So it wouldn't be historically accurate to have your billmen and longbowmen trapesing all across greater europe as though they were Tango masters. Instead they would be caught up in the local intrigues of the Lancasters and the Yorks.

[eat cold steel]

Changing the end date will not effect your current campaign, only new ones you start.