Chapter 245 - 243
It was because of this particular game that James fell hard into the world of command, where he could control every facet of his nation, even engagement of it’s armies.
Deciding who to ally with and when to break those alliances in the name of conquest.
In the beginning James would play the historic nations, reliving history as it were.
Or even correcting the mistakes of the past by ensuring his nations did not fall to corruption, decadence and nepotism.
But as the years wore on, and countless play throughs were performed his choice of commanding nation slowly changed.
Rather than ruling over the great nations remembered for their great deed throughout history, he instead started playing for the greater challenge of playing the more minor nations and standing in opposition of these great powers, before once more seeking an even greater challenge as he began choosing the forgotten nations those who typically were quick to fall to the conquests of their aggressive neighbors.
And so it was that across the countless instances of the game, and it’s later to be released versions that James became known in the multiplayer circles as a force to be reckoned with, one who if you found competing against needed to be eliminated quickly at the start of the game lest you allowed him to build up his nation to the point it became a near unstoppable war machine.
His method of play through was quite mechanical, having learned the systems that comprised the game, and in doing to allowing him to effectively create nations that were very different from any nations that truly existed in reality.
The people were content to have regular lives but never indulging greatly in the luxuries that could be found in conquest, instead these luxury goods while somewhat shared to the people, were mostly traded off to their at the time allies.
The nations always had a high conscription rate, while also having the military be a true meritocracy, if it was found one of his commanders had a significant fault they were removed from command, removed from the chain to further train the nations army.