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Not trying that stunt with the Suez might be a good start (this also applies to France too). I mean, it probably will end up with them losing the bulk of their colonial possessions in the long run anyways but at least they'll avoid the obvious display of them not being superpower tier world...

Wasn't Riper also not completely honest with his initial run of the scenario, something along the lines of of those old school methods having the same effectiveness as modern ones when in reality that's not really possible? It's one thing to run military exercises in which the protags are...

I find it oddly interesting that China ended the timeline with borders rather similar to their predecessor's at the start of the timeline. All's well that ends well I guess. So I'm guessing it's unlikely that they'll be a Drakia arm of the galaxy... a pity perhaps. Would be hilarious to see...

Pretty sure he like most of the posts in general as acknowledgment of community support.

Then obviously they need to triple down on their ideology after their doubling down fails...

Or double down on the insanity, comforting themselves with the delusion that all the failures came from not going hardcore enough...

It's gonna take everyone decades to get their shit together, and most likely by the time that happens there's a new balance of terror enforced by WMDs to the point where populations would be unlikely to be willing to make the sacrifices to do so. It's easy for us here in another universe in the...

I'm guessing that for whatever surviving Drakia state will have the mother of all "stabbed in the back" myth, and it'll be interesting if decades and centuries later they act upon that... (interplanetary/interstellar conflict anyone?)

So... Drakia arm of the galaxy when?

In OTL there were some in the German Navy who wanted oil firing ships, but as Germany's access to oil was even more sketchy than UK's the pragmatic choice of sticking with coal firing ships was retained throughout the era in OTL (though some of the later dreadnoughts did have the oil spray over...

Large scale production or secret production, pick one.

For a second I misread your post and thought you were taking about making mega chads like some next step of human evolution, and the funny part was that I was nodding along because I don't see it as out of character for them...

In that case there's even less of a reason to throw insane amount of R&D into nukes, which would mean that the development of better nukes would not necessarily be much faster than OTL.

Historically in OTL most first nuclear tests tend to be in the 10s of kilotons and it's safe to assume that it's the same here. Also even assuming faster research in those 5 years would mean more of miniaturize existing hardware (since it's most likely that the test device is not something you...

I mean, it's not exactly my fetish so I'm only aware of those things on a peripheral basis, also these days I'm mostly writing smut on another forum so it's been a while since I read more mainstream fiction.

Technological advancement isn't necessarily that clear cut, and there's some bottlenecks that couldn't just be solved faster even with trying to shove as much dosh into R&D as they could.

I think we also need to ask at this point how effective are the Chinese nukes? Because in OTL the nuking of Hiroshima & Nagasaki did the damage they did due to the fact that Japanese cities at the time were mostly wooden construction, which were extremely vulnerable to blast damage (in relation...

I don't know about y'all but I'm okay with the Drakia 'winning' here in a parallel to their original counterparts. Kinda funny how fate ended up taking a very similar route...

What US force think they look like... ... and what most of them will actually look like (talking about the PoGs acting all hood ass and shit but you know the most exciting thing they'll do in the war will be moving boxes in warehouses... or at least until civilization collapses)

Using a NSFW forum's inbuilt dice roller thingy, because why not?