Cynical eh…


No Koei could base their next game, using a similar engine, on the crusades.
This ‘teams’ may include the Islamic forces, The Christians and the Mongols.
Witnessing new heroes would be better than Zhuge Liang catwalk 2004 with summer fan and improved textured garments. To name some of the various Christian forces Count of Vermandois, Godfrey, Baldwin and of course Robert, Duke of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror!!! The Mongols (Kublai Khan, who attacked Europe).
The chronology for ‘crusade warriors’ is difficult – then again Lu Bu participating in Nanman campaign is also wrong.

As for your argument that Romance of the three Kingdoms is ‘historically accurate’ – Do you really believe Sun Quan participated in the front line at the battle of Chi Bi? Or that Zhuge Liang sent Sima Yi women’s underwear to aggravate him into battle? These elements are testimony to a writers imagination not the devices of the archivist styled historian modernists understand.
Personally, history interests me, but not in the: Learn the dates, dialectical approach taken by modernists. These demons consider the past fundamentally wrong, a struggle between classes that is broken by the revolution. This seems intelligent to the public, especially when such scholars dribble off the exact hour that ‘key’ events occurred. Yet they somehow miss the larger cyclical elements present in history.
As we see in both China and France the revolution brought more misery to the ‘proletariat’ and saw a tyrant into power (Dong Zho and Robespierre, respectively). Historical accurateness is secondary to the poetry. Tales of great warriors and romance abound in all cultures. Whether it happened in 192 B.C. or 1794 A.D. is of no importance… all the dates approach does is bore the hell out of high school students, turning them away from history. It also segments their understanding of history… e.g. the French revolution was at a different time to the Russian… so it must be different. Rubbish! Revolution is the result of progressive dissatisfaction with centralised powers. People become so inflated with their own needs that they spite people more fortunate. Rather than a net benefit of overall public goods, revolutionists prefer NOBODY to derive benefit from society, so every thing must burn and start a new. As Count Machiavelli wrote “Those wishing to seize power have all those who stand to loose against them and all those who stand to benefit with them. When the expecting beneficiaries outweigh the establishment, the elites will have an uprising on their hands.”
Obviously historical accuracy is a weighty subject – at the end of the day the archivists have been forgotten as history speaks not of them. The true heroes of historical thinking are our writers and philosophers.
Finally, would you prefer to read a story or a list of dates? History is after all a compound of his + story.