Historical setting for game suggestion

>>3169765
tell him to get a real job

>>3169785
He does actually. It's a side project

>>3169765
Just release it in early Alpha and figure it out within five years or so. Then you can abandon it

>>3169765
I never see alternate history games set in a world where France wins the napoleonic wars (somehow defeats both britain and Russia)
For all you examples, there will be a book somewhere that a historian has covered in extensive detail.

>>3169765

You should go to /tg/, they used to have good historic threads.

Did you actually play M&B? There are good mods similar to what you mentioned, With Fire and Sword is Cossack-based and Carribean Blood & Gold is set in colonial Carribean.

I strongly suggest that you look up on Thirty Year's War and try to make something out of it. It was a huge European conflict with numerous great powers involved, numerous great battles, great historical figures like Richeleu and Gustav Adolphus. But for some insane reason it almost never is an actual setting in historical games. I don't even think 30 years war games even exist.

If your friend could make it good it would be a very unique and interesting game. Hope that helps.

>>3169765
>with the main focus being survival, establishing contact with locals, trading and exploring.

do the great game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game
https://www.amazon.com/Tournament-Shadows-Great-Empire-Central/dp/0465045766

>>3169765
Some tips.
1. Do not deal with 15 century. Its full of lie.
2. 16 century - age of city states. Do not belive in bs about Spanish or Portugese state expeditions, it was mostly private actions with some activity of cities. Many characters like "Drake" or "Magellan" were not existed.
3. Carribean icelands of 16 centuries were mostly free pirate city states.
4. Europeans met non-primeval societies in Mexica, India and China but they were so bad that Latin states collapsed and Europeans became main part of Indian-Chinese-Japanese high classes.

>>3169867
OP here. Yes I did play Mount and Blade for a long time. Carabbean bllod and gold is good but his vision is more orientated towards exploring/surviving. He told me that you wouldn't have a map and you would have to have a cartographer to draw you the map as you explore the uncharted territories. 30 year war is an amazing setting but I think the scope is too large for his team at the moment

>>3169765
>Poland and Lithuania's war with Teutonic Order
>Bohemia during Hussite wars
>Italian city states during renessance
>Ottoman conquest of the Balkans
>Germany during Thirty Years War
>Richelieu's France
>England during civil war
>Ireland during Cromwell's crusade
>Cossack rebellion in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
>Swedish deludge in Poland
>Russian conquest of Siberia
>Berber pirates on Medditerranean sea
>Mexico during Cortez's Conquista
>Peru during Pizzaro's conquista
>Sengoku period Japan
>Ming China
>Mughal India
>North America during French and Indian war

>>3169908
Excellent post. Exploring Siberia sounds awesome with travelling between kreposts