Originally Posted by
NikeBG
Well, they did include Hungary (one of the giants of Central-Eastern Europe), they did include Poland and Lithuania (although the latter only in the expansion, but their Commonwealth became a giant quite after the game's starting date anyway). The only thing they usually tend to (dis)miss is the Balkans and more specifically - the Southern Slavs. Then again, they haven't made a game set in the heights of those said factions, so that's kinda logical too (especially since they're famous with their completely Hollywood-type of approach to history (flaming pigs and elephant rocketeers, anyone?))...
But, on the other hand, is it their fault that the mass medias propagate only some mainstream factions and only some historians know a bit more about other non-mainstream ones? Just like most of us probably don't know anything about the West-African kingdoms...