
"Fallen giants seldom pass on quietly, for even as they die, there are always pretenders seeking to take their place in the sun. The death of Czarist rule in Russia has inspired local Marxists, now called Bolsheviks, to seize control ... even as the peoples of that empire fight not just for freedom from Bolshevism, but also from their enemies, the loyalist Whites, as well as a resurgent Germany eager to maintain her control on eastern Europe.
"This struggle for postwar survival and greatness is mirrored further south, where the nascent Turkish republic struggles with Greece for control of the Bosporus while simultaneously seeking to extend her influence into lands lost to Russia. Meanwhile, the seemingly victorious but fledgling Chinese republic is sundered by warring cliques who use corruption and coercion to usurp votes - only the south remains true to the Republican cause, otherwise northern China is lost to the machination of the great powers of the day and warlords vying to become the next Son of Heaven. Unsurprisingly, the Bolsheviks and Japanese see China as easy prey for different motives: the former attempts to subvert China as a stepping stone toward a pan-global workers' dictatorship, the latter seeks in China the means to contain both godless Communism and European aggression in Asia.
"Together, the wake of these fallen giants - the Sublime Porte, the Romanov dynastty, and the Qing Empire - has grim consequences for peace in the Old World. It's been three years since the greatest war the world has ever seen came to a bitter close, yet the world is no less safer than it was back in that fateful summer more than seven years ago. Regardless, an era of NEW WORLD EMPIRES is about to visit the chapters of man's history - but at what cost to our own humanity?"