A Maratha campaign that reverses Alexander's route

Alex Clarke recalls a previous Maratha campaign that expanded across the map, entered Europe, and continued into the Americas. It reached the game's territorial victory conditions before all of the Americas had been conquered. By one stage, the ruling family and generals appeared to be fighting everywhere except India. The direction of expansion is compared to Alexander the Great's in reverse, beginning outside Europe and moving into it. The ability to begin as powers around the world supports the interpretation that luck had a large part in historical outcomes. The game provides a counterfactual example of different outcomes without establishing how likely those conquests were in real history.