Talk:Coming of the Huns/@comment-31571913-20190809130337

I'm a bit confused about the narrative in this one. Are we supposed to play as the army of Aetius and his allies at the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields in 451 AD, as it is mentioned in the "Historical Notes" section? In this case, a (strategic) victory would be the historical outcome, with the eventual fall of Western Rome being a consequence of Attila's following invasion into Italy and the barbarian migrations the Huns set in place.

However, the Victory text makes it sound like an unhistorical result where the Hunnic invasions are outright defeated, presumably preventing the fall of the Roman Empire, while the Loss text sounds much more like the historical outcome (though I can't really make sense of the line "The Huns are lauding you as one of their greatest generals.").

The Definitive Edition remake clearly puts this scenario in Eastern Europe in the year 373, implying that we are fighting off the beginning of the Hunnic invasions and trying to prevent the events they set in place. And yet, oddly enough, this edition's version of the scenario actually is largely based on AoE II's Battle of the Catalaunian Fields scenario...