Friends, I want to present you with an amazing, beautiful Let's Play, the sort which everyone should aspire to make. It is House Hohenzollern Rising, and it is beautiful. The game is a Mega-Paradox Let's Play, going from 1066 to 1945. The player, Wiz, uses extensive modding and takes the Hohenzollerns from a small, local batch of dukes based out of Bavaria into the rulers of Germany and leaders of one of the most industrialized countries in the world. The history of Germany itself is remarkably banal, typified by reaction and monarchy, but not too much more so than historically. In some ways, Wiz's Germany is the equivalent to our world's Russia, without being driven apart in the Great War. It is "just" a ****ty, reactionary autocracy ruled by a conservative leadership with support from the fascists.

 

The rest of the world is where it gets interesting. The Hammabids came to rule Iberia, eventually driving the Christians out and colonizing even more than their historical counterparts (Portugal and Spain) did. After a long period of internal strife, they lose much of the new world and collapse to the revolutionary Zuhriman. The Eastern Roman Empire survives, then falls to communism. Russia remains under the Lithuanian-Polish jackboot until the 19th century. Et cetera, et cetera. I really cannot just write out all the different ways in which the world is different (well, I can, but it would take too long to), but it is, again and again. Yet at the same time it is identifiable, its countries recognizable and somewhat familiar. Please read it, for within the month nublets like you who don't want to drop $20 won't be able to.

That's awesome. A shame that such a thing is only possible through massive ad-hoc customization of the games.

 

The world in 1941: http://www.shardsofdalaya.com/images/germa.../world-1941.png

I cast magic missile.

Great find, I love these counter historical scenarios.. It's always interesting to ponder on what could've happened.

One of the more bizarre moments in an old EUIII game (also from Paradox), the battle for the north American continent was finally decided when imperial Tahitian forces crushed the last pockets of resistance of the kingdom of Quebec...

 

(Tahiti became so mighty because a truckload of Spanish colonies defected due to constant Spanish warfare and the ensuing war exhaustion)

The wierdest moment I've had was when China conquered all of Russia and created a huge asian empire, effectively keeping Europe out of Asia.

The history of Germany itself is remarkably banal

 

 

Wrong on so many levels I don't know where to start.

 

Then again, you're a Communist and therefore history is just for airbrushing, right?

I took that as a reference to how the author of the AAR in question played his Germany, not as a general statement about that country's real world history.

The history of Germany itself is remarkably banal, typified by reaction and monarchy, but not too much more so than historically.

 

Good point, dude. Then again, this sentence is so garbled that if I were an English teacher I'd probably take to drink.

Finished reading this today (and I even skipped the CK parts!). This may very well be the best LP EVER -- the author has basically crafted a custom-made mod that encompasses several games just for the purpose of writing the LP. The mod is available for download, too, so I know what I'm going to be playing for the next few weeks.

 

I didn't know of the SA policy of archiving threads after some time (and then charging for access to them), but it doesn't matter as the whole thing (minus goon interactions) is on the LP Archive:

 

http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Hohenzollern/index.html