Witnessing historic events?

[Dread Knot]

Originally Posted by danlisa

More importantly, should we be able to alter historic events? Should those altered events affect the ongoing (in game) events?

Save the Bismark? (for example)

But then you come up against the problem of what cascading effects altering history has on your simulated Battle of the Atlantic. The British wouldn't just be sending convoys routinely in a business as usual fashion across the Atlantic if the Bismarck is sitting with two battlecruisers in Brest and the Tirpitz is nearing completion. Would the game framework be able to realistically handle all the changes?