User blog comment:IndigoOnIceCream/Map Games VS Timelines/@comment-1593341-20120207002816/@comment-1630894-20120207024546

You mean like how old-style Europe 1430 had the Bytzantines staging a last minute conquest of all Ottoman territory and then Bohemia takes most of Africa, Norse paganism takes over Scandanavia, and the Persians all convert back to Zoroastrianism?

Or in the "New and Improved Map Game" where they had an industrial revolution within a century or two of Rome's fall?

Or the New Map game, where Russia conquered all of their modern-day territory by 1266 and the Bytzantines conquered back almost all of their OTL territory at their greatest extent?

Or the original map game itself, where they had moon colonies in the 1980s with a POD a century before, and where all of North America united into one nation, then broke up a couple years later, then reformed a couple years after that only to get nuked to oblivion?

Compare the current map games to that, and only the Second Imperial Europe map game gets to that level.