What if I prefer competitive game play (crushing adversaries, building an empire, achieving world domination)?

Players may form factions and through them, build strategic alliances. Cities that ally to your cause provide resources to accelerate your rise to power. However, adversaries will check your advancement through diplomacy and warfare.

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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.