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It would be a matter of would the expenditures be seen as worthwhile, how would these colonies be run, and most importantly how can you keep political will for the project across factional disputes or even one emperors life time. An attempt would be possible, but unlikely to last.

What period of the Tsardom are we talking about here?

October 17th, 1575 Iwadeyama Castle Town, Mutsu Province Hugh, Richard, and Cathan had gathered in a room in a small inn. which only had a few straw mats as furnishings. "How many mountains can one land have?" Richard asked aloud. "I am not sure myself, but at least we don't have to climb...

I think CK III will be the EU IV to CK II's EU III. Basically it will have a base game that is for the most part an improvement on the old, because it adopts so many DLC in the prior game as baseline features.

There's a kernel of truth in that. It's not until Maoism that you a Marxist philosophy that truly puts any value on the peasants. The Bolsheviks largely cribbed SR ideology for their own uses, but their focus was on industry. The desire for land was still a legitimate grievance among the...

My assumption is will. Lenin had basically designed his take on Marxism to basically be confrontational as possible, and saw all alliances as temporary. The repression under him and Stalin was used a political tool and the Bolsheviks as a whole were more than willing to resort to violence. My...

Except ,you would hard pressed to find proto-fascism in Russia especially in such a divided group like the Whites, or even a clear leader would be. White Russia would not be a picnic but I would be hard pressed to say it would turn out to be the early years of the Soviet Union, but cloaked in a...

What does one mean by a White victory here considering it encompassed anyone ranging from Mensheviks to those with monarchist sympathies? It would probably have to function on coalition government, and least keep itself isolated to rebuild. Poland is going to be allowed to succed, and I don't...

Basically the Japanese army would not be ready for an invasion any time soon, the Boshin War was only four years ago, and its not enough time to have an army and navy built from the ground up invade and conquer a place, and expect to hold it, and not even getting into the societal reform aspects...

I don't see it happening even in the strictest sense of an Ottoman ruled Siber. The closest the Ottomans can get is if one of the Giray Khans unites Kazan and Crimea and roughly reforms the Golden Horde, but that just gives them a friendly ally. Ottoman influence over this state compared to...

No, the Sino-Albanian alliance came at a time when the Albanian's ever fearful of the Yugoslavs, and having a dispute over Kosovo, looked to the Chinese for potential safety because they opposed the Soviet Union, once the tensions start to cool the alliance loses it's usefulness.

I would say not really. Guns had been around in Japan for a while, and that innovations came independent of Nobunaga considering, the Oda were far away from where firearms first arrived and spread.

If your talking about Nagashino, then it was not all that innovative. What Nobunaga did was basic field fortifications with something close to pike and shot, but the kicker is the Takeda being famous for cavalry is largely folklore, for the most part. At Nagashino the only unit of horsemen with...

It is not so much about commanders as it is technology. Japanese ships would still be risk, and their naval tactics might not match up. Depend on when Japan invades Admiral Yi might be disgraced, but even without him. Japan could still be cut off by supplies. What the Japanese invasion force...

No, my understanding of England's Irish woes was that it was less about religion, and more about exerting control over Ireland because English authority hardly extended past the Pale. That England was Protestant did not help matters, but attempts to change Irish local governance to a more...

How can they if the Norman's might not have a Pope friendly enough to help them this time, and as mentioned earlier the Normans really do not have many friends around them either?

This is tricky, but I do not think you can get an Ottoman succession crisis that late, or even by a lack of heir except through extenuating circumstances, unless you have Sultan Ibrahim die very early on in his reign. Mind you with Islamic realms outside of the Sultanate of Delhi, you cannot...

I would say in terms of advance Rome had more engineering feats, but far less of a stable bureaucratic machine than the Han, sure you had your fair share of rebellions invasions, attacks from the north, at least two usurpations maybe three, but it beat out short-lived with even shorter lived...

Since the cool kids @FalconHonour and @Cate13 are doing it I might as well. This is an attempted introduction for my Timeline, I hope it is not too long. This timeline takes place during the Sengoku period of Japan, it was a time where Japan was divided among feudal lords who were namely out...

(I hope this isn't cheating.) Red Seal Warriors (Shunin Bushi or 朱印武士) were encouraged by the Imagawa Shogunate as a way to relieve their countries restless warriors by allowing to fight in conflicts overseas. The Red Seal Warriors were hired by contract although after their first contract saw...