Talk:Yamato Empire of the Rising Sun/@comment-210.24.102.192-20111207032243

That's true [regarding the artistic licence], especially in AoE2 where events that happened over many years are condensed into a single scenario (as in the Genghis Khan and Barbarossa campaigns). What I want to point out is that if one compares the History tabs of the Yamato scenarios with those of other AoE1 campaigns, the info in the Yamato ones is distinctly generic (no mentions of years etc)., and is almost identical to the scenario instructions, albeit written in third-person narrative. The crucial question is, therefore, whether the "historical facts" mentioned in the Yamato campaign [such as the Kyushu-Yamato conflict from 385 to 405] are even remotely based on anything that really happened in early Japanese history. It would be weird for ES to state that the campaign traces the rise of the Yamato Kingdom if there weren't any historical basis to work with. This is a separate issue altogether from the artistic licence taken in re-enacting historical moments in campaigns (which will of course have some fictional elements--- like using the Powerful Artifact storyline to dramatise the fall of Minoan civilization in 1200 BC [Glory of Greece Sc 5], which did really happen albeit due to a different cause).