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This is a restart of the Barbarossa Quest I made a while back but with a revamped background and stat list for Barbarossa. I started this on SB but due to limited interest I'm giving it a shot over here. I'm going to be carrying over what I've done so far so please don't post until I give the...

Does anyone remember that game in development by the creator of Assassin's Creed, but then the project was nipped in the bud by Ubisoft buying his company? Turns out it has been solved. http://ca.ign.com/articles/2016/04/25/assassins-creed-creator-gets-1666-back-from-ubisoft And an early...

Looking for the previous story in the series? It's here: Batman 1939: The Dangers of Being Cold August, 1941. On the streets of Gotham City, they say the Four Families are untouchable, and no one is more dangerous than Batman. Tonight, both these myths are about to be shattered. The first...

Looking for the next story in the series? It's here: Batman 1939: Swimming in the Styx December, 1940. Bodies are disappearing from morgues. A couple lies murdered in the street. To solve the mystery, Batman must seek the help of the most frustrating thief he's ever crossed. But even with...

INDEX: Prologue: My mother was a caring woman. Always saying “Abram, stay close to the house! You don't want to get lost in the night,” or “Abram, be careful! Satan will cut out your tongue for saying things like that!” I guess she was right to worry. I was thirteen when they came. My...

So I'd been modifying Age of Empires 3 for the last... 5 years or so and I'm currently working on a modification that aims to update the game for a 19th century era setting. The thing is lately I realized just how terrible the naval system in the game is, basically you've got big, costly ships...

(Recycled this from a game that didn't happen. Might flesh it out more, if it meets with enough approval and inspiration strikes.) TECHNICALLY, IT'S A BONNET A day in the Life of Tam (Flavorful fluff for prurient perusal) A penny dreadful of the most disreputable and scandalous young strumpet...

Prologue It is often said that legends emerge from acts of impressive bravery, acts that defy reason, but that make people believe that everything's possible if you want it. These acts and heroic deeds are why magic and fantasy, like tales of knights in shining armor live on. It's the reason...

Da Pacem Domine - By the Sword and the Cross Christendom and its neighbours, 1247 A.D. Deus Vult! With that call on their lips the men of the First Crusade marched to the east to retake the Holy Land from the heathens. The holy crusades had been called to unite all of Christendom and break...

21st Century: a complaint By Charlie Stross I want to complain to the studio execs who commissioned the current season of "21st century"; your show is broken. I say this as a viewer coming in with low expectations. Its predecessor "20th century" plumbed the depths of inconsistency with the...

Preface As the title suggests, the upcoming timeline/story is an alt. historical tale about Canada. In the beginning of the timeline, it will focus on two individuals, one more so than the other. This individual is none other than noted French-Canadian Henri Bourassa, a politician who would be...

Benito Pérez Galdós was one of the foremost Spanish writers of the 19th century. His Episodios Nacionales series chronicles much of the story of Spain in that period in five series and are collectively considered one of the peaks of Spanish realist literature. In spite of this, I haven't had...

Nicky Quest The 1890s. A decade known to the future as the gay nineties, though you know it not yet. Your time as an active colonel of the horse-guards regiment is coming to an end. Soon, you shall have to turn your attentions elsewhere. You wonder what life has in store for you. In...

Assassin's Creed, now with more Victorian flavor! So not Victory, but Syndicate.

Panzer Vor! A Girls Und Panzer Quest. There are great, powerful schools in the world of Sensha-do… and yours is not one of them. It’s not even in the running any more; the old club members graduating without leaving enough numbers to keep the team going. Well, not any more! With the love of...

What would happen if the Moors had successfully beat back the Catholic Kingdoms of Iberia? Would they have set their sights to France? Or go to the new world? What do you think?

What are some erroneous ideas about what the present day is like that you could see becoming common pop history ideas in the future? ------ Thread inspired by this post on SB, where I got into the minds of people looking at present day people with the same kind of horrified pity we tend to...

Yet another CKII quest (original, I know). The idea has been knocking around my head for a while now and I had to get it out. ******************************************************************************* The known world is a troubled one. To the southwest of the Norse homelands the empire...

(a History tag would be nice) Anyway, this was posted on SB, I thought it would be interesting to repost it here, if only for the sheer hilarity insanity the sake of purely scientific curiosity. A bit old though. It isn't long (17 pages), but it's unfortunately not copy/paste friendly either...

[Title Not Yet Final] :V In giant robot fiction it is normal for the giant robots themselves to be relatively recent inventions. In Mobile Suit Gundam, the Zaku was a revolutionary weapon system introduced just prior to the One Year War, for example. Even in stories and settings where...

Seeing as I was driving myself crazy in Barbarossa quest let's try something different. Cross-posted on SB The spray of the sea and the rhythmic heaving of the waves seem to have an almost hypnotic effect on the young man as he pulls the oar with the rest of his companions. For over a...

We actually didn't have an Assassin's Creed thread, so I decided to make one. Anyway, what are people's opinions on Assassin's Creed: Rogue? Playing primarily as a Templar, while not exactly new, it's rather a moderate change from the usual Assassin perspective. Personally, I don't like it(it...

Assassins Creed comes to the French Revolution. http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/en-US/home/index.aspx

Making this thread just in case the split from SB is permanent.

Scraped from here. It is January 1st, 869 AD A letter has just arrived! Turning it over you see the familiar seal of your family. Happily you tear it open and begin to read. The first thing you note that is in the hand of your old wet nurse. Dear Prince(/ss) [name to be decided], It is my...