Post by isa0005 on Dec 6, 2017 20:12:44 GMT
With over 1000 hours sunk in the CKII, I've fouynd that the potential to explore alternative history has always had me coming back to this game. Be it preventing the Battle of Manzikert as the Byzantines, acheiving victory at the Battle of Stamford Bridge as Harrald Hardrada or beating back Salah ad-Din as the Crusader States. Through the many years that I've been playing CKII AGOT, I've also been esepcially fascinated with the alternative history of Westeros and Essos, for example, what if Blackfyre rebellion was sucessful, what if Robert's Rebellion failed, what if Emperor Aurion sucessfully restablished the Valyrian Empire, etc, etc, etc. Now of course, making your way through the vanilla scenarios that CKII and CKII AGOT provides is naturally half the fun, making those decisions, fighting those battles as you desperatly try to re-write the history books.
That being said, after my third and indeed sucessful attempt and crowning Daemon Blackfyre as Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, I thought to my self, wouldn't it be great if players had the oppotunity to start as King Daemon Blackfyre from the very beggining? Wouldn't it be great if we could navigate fictional, custom made events that happened as a result of his victory, for example, how best to deal with the Targaryens and their band of loyalist. Perhaps we could see events that happened as they did at the OTL but with an alternative twist maybe? Now of course to some this might seem like cheating, skipping through conflicts etc to the end result, but who's to say that after the divergence in the timeline, things would be so peachy during these alternative scenarios?
While I have some modding experience, especially with AGOT, I'm no where near capable enough to really flesh this kind of thing out as much as I'd love to. That said, I figured I'd put the idea out there and see if anyone was interested, see if the AGOT team was interested etc, etc, etc. Feel free to give your own ideas for alternative historical scenarios, if you like my idea, what kind of events would you be interested in? What periods of Westerosi and Esossi history could have gone differently?
Cheers,
isa0005.
That being said, after my third and indeed sucessful attempt and crowning Daemon Blackfyre as Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, I thought to my self, wouldn't it be great if players had the oppotunity to start as King Daemon Blackfyre from the very beggining? Wouldn't it be great if we could navigate fictional, custom made events that happened as a result of his victory, for example, how best to deal with the Targaryens and their band of loyalist. Perhaps we could see events that happened as they did at the OTL but with an alternative twist maybe? Now of course to some this might seem like cheating, skipping through conflicts etc to the end result, but who's to say that after the divergence in the timeline, things would be so peachy during these alternative scenarios?
While I have some modding experience, especially with AGOT, I'm no where near capable enough to really flesh this kind of thing out as much as I'd love to. That said, I figured I'd put the idea out there and see if anyone was interested, see if the AGOT team was interested etc, etc, etc. Feel free to give your own ideas for alternative historical scenarios, if you like my idea, what kind of events would you be interested in? What periods of Westerosi and Esossi history could have gone differently?
Cheers,
isa0005.
