With a POD after 1788, make Vietnam more prosperous and powerful, possibly removing foreign influence and making a colonial empire for itself. Extra points if the country is Protestant-majority.
The OTL is a Vietnam Wank actually.With a POD after 1788, make Vietnam more prosperous and powerful, possibly removing foreign influence and making a colonial empire for itself. Extra points if the country is Protestant-majority.
well, we're trying a bigger scale.The OTL is a Vietnam Wank actually.
Vietnam has annexed Champa and Eastern Cambodia which became South Vietnam.I don't get it![]()
Perhaps taking more territory from Cambodia in the 1800s. If the Thai are distracted then Cambodia is vulnerable. The problem is actually conquering Cambodia removes a convenient buffer state where Thai and Vietnamese armies could fight instead of their respective countries.
This is a relevant question for how to wank them: did Vietnamese ever really subscribe to the traditional Southeast Asian practice of abducting people en masse in war rather than conquer land?
To many SE Asians, managing to take a capital and take most of the inhabitants back to ones own kingdom would be a great victory, as land was seen as plentiful but people were not. So a wank in the region could be more about taking many captives rather than much land. But I don't know if the Vietnamese practiced that.