The Need of Alternating History

If there is one thing I enjoy from the forum games I take part in, it's the willingness to change history and turn things either for the better or for the worse. I for one feel a sort of pride in playing these games and thusly always end up choosing Argentina. Probably due to time constraints and other factors, playing my homeland (in this case in the 1920's) allows me to invest enough time to make it manageable, but not turn it into an obsessive hobby where I have to keep track and mass produce posts 24/7.

Also it appeals to my "Khanite" necessity to expand and conquer; something any gamer of my age will do after being brought up playing Command & Conquer and Age of Empires. Expansion, expansion, expansion. That is the only true method.