This is one of the periods that has always intrigued me largely through the title. It is quite evocative of a romantic idea, which always suffers a little bit when you get into the reality (which caused me never to really get into it, but which when you pair it with the Idea of the Imagi-Nation begins to acquire a pair of legs.
I've been puttering away and slowly building my "Russiafied" imagi-nation (Called Gulagia, with it's capital at Gullaginn's Island) and I have a plan for an opposing Swedish-Scandinavian Empire called Floridanica which is pretty standard stuff so far. But the name "Great Northern" War always conjures up in your mind, vast landscapes of a frozen wilderness, of the huge spaces of the teppes, the vast forests of the Taiga, The quaint Swedish style houses and the squalorous huts of the Moujiks. Of saunas and clubs, the knout, the whip, and the gayety of Veredi's "UnBallo in Maschera" and so forth.
It certainly doesn't evoke all this scrambling around in Poland of all places, let alone the Ukraine and so forth.
So I was wondering, what if we moved the coutntries a little far north and had the artillery being drawn on sleds by musk Ox or Reindeer or cavalry mounted on Elk for winter operations. My friends have been trying for years to get me into the Seven Years War Bears or something like that so maybe the Gullagians have a few regiments of trained bears.
Hmmm…I'll have to work on this one…
So I was wondering about going further an making up
