the historical wars cup

[Squamiger]

@howlingwolfpaw i saw you mention this on twitch chat so I'll give you credit where credit is due for a fun idea.

Imagine a showmatch with the gimmick that all the matches are fixed and structured around historical wars and battles. This might capture the interest of a lot of casual players on the periphery who bought the game for the historical aspects but have never really gotten interested in competitive play. The idea would be to introduce a very small degree of role-playing / historical setting by the casters while also creating some interesting, lesser-seen matchups. The challenge would be to make sure that both players get an equal chance to play favorable matchups, while still challenging players to create unique strategies.

I think rather than a full tournament it might just be fun to have two players do a play-all-5 as a one time show match:

game 1: The Aztec Conquest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_c ... tec_Empire. Spain vs. Aztecs, on Mexico. Could also do Spanish vs. Inca and set it in on the map Andes.
game 2: The French and Indian War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War. France vs. British on Hudson Bay
game 3: The Sino-Russian Border Conflicts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Russ ... _conflicts. China vs. Russia on Siberia.
game 4: The Ottoman-Portugal War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman%E ... 80%931559). Ottomans vs. Portugal on C E Y L O N. or i guess fertile crescent if you're a coward.
game 5: The Second Northern War (North American theater) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_No ... New_Sweden. Dutch vs. Sweden on New England

i'm sure people can come up with more scenarios. can you think of more?

[Riotcoke]

Downvoted.

[Squamiger]

aw

[howlingwolfpaw]

I like this. Tired of seeing mirrors, and OP civs switched out each game.

Makes for some thing interesting and new that can be done.

[Le Hussard sur le toit]

Great idea ! Let's add more.

The Chinese-Japanese war on Korea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_ ... 80%931598)
English-Spanish war on Carib.

I think it would be cool if our map makers made a few custom maps for wars between Europeans powers too.

[Squamiger]

i know maybe the very. serious. competitive. gamers. might poo poo this but I think it would be a fun community event, with casters giving a prepared historical narrative before each match. i think custom maps might be too ambitious for something like a saturday showmatch though, and there are plenty of historical maps to use in the already existing game

[Lukas_L99]

No English version of this, but Vienna was under the siege of the Ottomans, but then the winged hussars arrived. Tho no fitting map for this I guess.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zweite_ ... belagerung

Happened twice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Vienna

[Plantinator]

Yeah u can do a lot if we had a europe map set.
My additions that suit the maps we have:
7 years war: fre vs brit on deccan
Japan Civil war: japan mirror on honshu
Haitian revolution: fre vs spain on Hispaniola
Pontiac uprising: Haud vs brit on great lakes
And ofc the classic: knights of Malta vs some guys with white doggies in florida