On a completely unrelated note, I did something. French HRE, Big Asturias, Big ass Denmark and more powerful Terra Mariana as well as dying Norman Sicily and Occitan being the big language instead of French. Year is 1550.
Beyond the fact that Nic Moran isn't the best guy to try WW2 ergonomics on, I'm talking about how they solved the issues progressively between the AC1, AC3 and AC4. The AC1 was at best a very rough preseries vehicle.
Solutions can't be found in corruption, nor high-tech advantage, nor any kind of natural advantages. The PRC was and is more corrupt than the Soviet Union, Chinese engineers were and are worse in international comparisons that their Russian counterparts, and have fewer innovations (certainly per...
The U.S. does lots of things for values and ideals over realpolitik. There’s plenty of selfish things we do too, but every single sanction we have on things like conflict diamonds, foreigners laundering money here, most economic sanctions we put on countries that do bad things, etc. are a net...
I didn't say anything about "massive buildups" or the economics. The OP wanted diversifying, he didn't mention the scale or the economics, so I was just looking at what tech is available early enough.
I think you are right
I tried holding off on my usual "broad front, narrow front, both are fucked" song and dance act for as long as I could, .....it wasn't very long :oops:!
William I was from start an authoritarian monarch, who use and expanded the room he had due to the rather weak opposition of his ministers. So William I does not have to become more absolute. William I made a mistake by insisting that the Catholic priest education should be ruled by the State...
Turkey will join the Axis when the Wehrmacht is sitting on the Hindu Kush and the Ruwenzori, and not before. Memories of the Great War still burn fiercely for the generals in Ankara.
In terms of politics/history a textbook page examining colonialism’s evolution from new world colonialism into the factory system would be a dream but in terms of newspaper? I think showing off whatever dumb scandal is being used against the FC government could be fun, could show what people...
Italy has Istria back? Or is there PoD somewhere around 1945 and she never loose it?
How did USSR loose (most of) Transcaucasia? (while keepin Ukraine and central Asia)
And are there any changes with french borders, asied of Vallonia?