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I'm really on that fence on that on my opinion about Conrad many people hail him as a genius, others think he was a complete idiot. I always assumed that his tactics were good but not for where he used them. But I could be completely wrong.
Honestly your opinion is your opinion. AH will always will remain one of my top favorite historical countries even if it's your least
. You've been a pretty amazing bit of help with my questions on this thread so thanks
Yeah I never really bought into the picture that the empire was on its last legs just waiting to be torn apart by the various ethnic groups that made it up
. And I could easily understand the idea of counteracting the Hungarians by incorporating more Slavs and dominating the Balkans was really the last avenue the Habsburgs had left to flex their muscles. I mean given enough time AH would probably have rebounded with industrialization and some decent reorganization of the empires current structure would have solved most of the problems the empire faced ethnically. It would have just been a lot of work but doable.