Quote Originally Posted by Trithemius View Post
Hey now! Saigo Takamori is pretty interesting!

In my opinion (as a diverted history academic) I think part of the appeal of pre-industrial history is it is less familiar to us; if history is another country then the further back, the more exotic it is.
Yeah some of the stuff they have in the vanilla Shogun 2 is pretty mind boggling... Climbing walls instead of ladders? Carving castles into rocks instead of building them somewhere convenient... Cannons made from wood... total lack of shields xD This is almost like watching some aliens.