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Y'know, if I was Alfarus I'd be terrified of it for more reasons than just "they can actually stop us", there's also the fact that a worldwide coalition against the Combine would falsify Combine Societism. Their whole idea is that the Combine is the only Human government, that the illegitimate...

I dunno, it could also be pretty long but extremely propagandistic? In a sort of, "This is what the records we have say the rainforests were like before the Combine, and this is our film footage of what's left, which is why the Combine deserved to get Threshed." Honestly, IDK if we've seen an...

And so Tsar Paul, faced with the looming threat of encirclement and the consequences of his own Interbellum-era policies of expanding Russian power at any opportunity, launches a titanic spring offensive taking advantage of new technology and tactics aimed at bringing the war to a decisive close...

Gonna be honest, I'd totally forgotten they had lost Poland.

Y'know, one interesting thing about the Russians here is that a lot of the trouble they're in goes all the way right back to decisions they made during the Pandoric War and the Interbellum. Specifically, they went and took a whole bunch of really advanced positions, right close to the core...

So with Austro-Societism emerging onto the world stage, I wanna take a moment to note that Alfarus' panic makes total sense. The obvious parallel here seems to me to be the SPD-KPD split during and after the First World War, over exactly the question of whether socialism could be accomplished...

You know, I wonder if maybe the Emperor made the classic mistake of believing his own propaganda? Russia was the undisputed winner of the Pandoric War, the entire world quaked in terror of the Dread Armart Legions, and then under his guidance Russia actually gets into another war on a similar...

So I can't remember which post it was in the last volume, but there's a post stressing how Diversitarianism and Societism share their origins in a critique of the society of the Long Peace. What's interesting to me is that, even though to all appearances that global society broke during the...

I've gotta say, I'm really grateful for more recap-y sections like this one. I found the Pandoric War kinda hard to follow, enough so that I wound up taking a break from following LTTW until I was able to binge-read the entire thing in one go, and considering how many bits there were in the...

The Bundeskaiser is dead, long live the Interrex! Well, not yet, but you get the point Y'know, one point to make here is that it seems like Bohemia and Poland have had their fates reversed. Bohemia is the battleground of eastern Europe, while Poland is the headquarters of the RLPC and a...

You know, there's no reason both of these things can't be true. Verbeek-Black Flag alliance of convenience to kick out the Russians, and then the Verbeeks realize after the fact that this was a really, reaaaalllly bad idea and they've signed on with something a lot more dangerous

You know, one other thing to note here is that we could be looking at a situation a lot like the one in Carolina or Kongo, where the Combine get invited in willingly by people who don't necessarily know exactly what they're getting themselves into, but the promise of peace and protection from...

You know, one thing Thande likes to do is lay in foreshadowing for future events all through the previous volume. The interwar years built up to the Black Twenties, the Pandoric War being hinted at all through the previous volume. What I find interesting here is that, all through this volume so...

I mean more, doctrine-wise. TLL doesn't have ICBMS and doesn't seen to have MAD so I was thinking it might be because they're thinking of Threshold Bombs as being basically an upgunned Scientific Attack. You deploy it from airplanes against military targets the same way the Combine uses the...

So there are two points of interest here for me. One is that the Combine is indeed going to jump into the Black Twenties and American-Combine naval battles are coming up, and not only coming up but are prominent enough that the last great Lineship battle is reduced to being run with rules for...

You know, that might explain a few things about the weirdness of threshold bombs. I'm thinking, maybe what's going on is that Timeline L thinks of Threshers as being basically upgunned "Scientific Weapons" with radiation in the place of chemical weapons as the payload?

You know, one point to note here is that if the English win this, I think it'll be the first really major English naval victory in a while? They lost the thingummy that let the French invade during the Jacobin wars, the Pandoric War was a complete fiasco for them, uh, I forget how the Popular...

Yeah, and we just found out that the most important ones by far are kicking around the idea of outright rebellion. So far this volume has been showing how France is weaker than everyone thought, and now we're getting into how Russia is weaker than everyone thought. I'm thinking we're really...

Incidentally I was thinking about Russia before the update was posted, and I was thinking, how strong actually is Russia? Their Pandoric War gains are actually pretty marginal. Sure, Czechosilesia exists and sure, they got the northern half of Noochaland, but I'm starting to think a lot of the...

Oh, right, I forgot. Thanks!