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I think that on the long stand Italy would become a military dictature in the way of a lot of other nations . It wasn't yet a very socially evoluted country and Army had some popularity among the populations . What about General Badoglio as military dictator of Italy ?

" Homosexuality is a good thing, it increases the autonomy of the regiment " (General Cadorna after discovering waht Italian troops were doing while Austrian broke in Caporetto)

In 1898 the attempt of reform made by the emperor Guangxu failed, due by a putsch made by the Dowager Empress with the treason of the commander of the Beyiang Army, Yuan Shikai . What if Yuan Shikai remains faithful to the emperor ? What if progressist movements take over China ? There will be a...

I don't think it would have changed the political history of Europe .

What about Congo ? With the king that does not gives it to Belgium and, maybe, a Belgian white dinasty governing it with an Apartheid like regime, Congo would be fully exploited ( halas ) and this state would be a threat to other colonial powers .

I'm tryng to gather some players ( we are six until now ) in a simulation game set in a world where Italian unification has never happened . There, Austria is the main power, Mussolini is a cardinal and Hitler is only a nationalist populist ( that yea rules austria ) . Here there is the link ...

And if the empire of Trebzon had mantained its alliance with the Ak-Konoloyu, Georgia and Mamluks, would have it survived to the XV century ? And if it had survived ( maybe under the protection of Ak Konoloyu, then Safavides and finally Russians ), how would have been Turkey after the fall of...

Bava Beccaris Cadorna's stupidity was responsable of Caporetto, also if we were 4 times more than austrians, BAva Beccaris is the general that made a slaughter ordering to shoot with 75 mm guns to a group of protesters . Also during the great war he did wery bad .

answer cadorna is probably the answer, he did very bad during the great war . Bava Beccaris is another good candidate .

Italian Victory Italians can hold in Egypt only if : Graziani is not in command ( and he was the regime's favourite general ) The Navy ( we had a good, but badly led navy ) destroy the British fleet at Punta Stilo or during the invasion of Crete . There is no war in Greece The...

Reply And when should be put france in all this ? Only if Spain wins Thirty Years War, England don't lose Hannover during Napoleonic Wars ( Prussians winning battle of Jena ? ) and Italy realizes its project of creating an empire that goes from Mediterranean to Guinea this map would be...

Meclembourg In my main game I ruled the little state of meclemburg, but expanded conquering Denmark, Lunebourg, Oldenbourg, Brema, Ambourg and Pomerania . I founded so a north german state with one little colony in Cape and oneother in Qatar and Maldive .

Remarks As Italian I have some remarcs to do about the ucrony herself : Carlo Alberto wasn't progressist at all ( he was even more conservative than Metternich himself ! ), he was not intelligent, as all Savoy, was very bigot, too bigot to unify Italy taking Rome . The state of royal army...

Reply In reality Oriental and occidental empires weren't so friendly : shortly before Silicho's death Occidental and Oriental Empire were nearly at war for Illyria's control . Majorian himself wasn't recognised by bizantium and all the emperors ( Anthemius 468 - 472 and Julius Nepos 474 - 475...

Mongols After the end of XIII century they weren't effective at all ; they weren't also very harsh : for example there was a certain religious tolerance . The situation of Mongolian army after XIV century was similar to Achemenid's one : army was composed mainly by non Mongolian, completely...