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I think theres already a script to prevent the romans heading north, it spawns silver chevron stacks in some of the cities north of the alps. or i may just be remembering an older version of the mod.

Wouldn't Hitler likely have been (more) okay with helping establish israel, since at first they were merely trying to deport/get rid of all the jews in Germany at first?

Actually the sixth army only had 3 panzer divisions with it when it was surrounded. the loss of the sixth army wasn't, at the time it was lost, a blow the Germans couldn't recover from i would argue....

it was less snapping it and more cutting it down. Basically you take a 10(ish) foot long spear meant for use on horseback and cut it so its a 4 foot stabbing spear more useful in on foot combat. the...

They really weren't cowering. it was more that since the humans were Eru's creation, none of them really were sure what to do, and so they asked Eru to deal with it.

And they also probably didn't...

I should think the letters between King Edward of England and King Magnus of Denmark and Norway certainly qualify. this was when Magnus, having taken Denmark according to the pact he made with King...

Just to add to the discussion, what really killed the German ability to launch even a theoretical operation sea lion was Norway. "one of the Kriegsmarine's two heavy cruisers, two of its six light...

So did the Italians, and the Rumanians, and the Hungarians. but despite all these being much closer to Germany and much easier for the Germans to aid, they still wound up being mostly speed bumps...

You could try the fix that worked for the unspecified errors in TATW. Its strange, but turning off daylight savings time seems to really cut down on them in that mod, maybe it'll do the same here?

Mongol-turkic origin. they weren't the pure steppe mongols of 1240, but they were a mongol empire nevertheless, just islamic instead of pagan(horribly oversimplified i know). and again, the climate...

The defenses at Intombe were not nearly as good as the ones at Rorkes Drift, being a haphazard laager of wagons vs stone walls supplemented by sandbags and boxes. While at RD the British manages to...

which makes sense, getting into close combat negated enemy artillery and made it more a contest of troop quality and training.

There was no artillery used at the battle, though there were men from the artillery branch fighting alongside the regular infantry since they needed all the help they could get., same with any...

that was half of his undermining the Schlieffen plan, theres a second one you tend to hear less about. the original plan called for a weaker right/center that would fall back as the French advanced,...

I think the issue is less with the mediocrity of the participants and more that everyone spent the years going up to the war assuming it would go a certain way and making one big plan, and then...

I actually own 3 of those listed (K98, Mosin and type 99) and i would say the type 99 is in the same category as the other two. its a sturdy, well built bolt action rifle. But mine is also one of the...

Sorry about that, was writing that all down off of memory at the time. fixed it.

there actually was a plan to invade russia first. or at least, to fight russia while leaving border defences on the french frontier. due to the constant drills and the military control over the...

Actually i believe it was in fact John Hawkwood who led the white company, since after him the italians themselves took over the business of being exploitative mercenary bands from what had until...

i think this was brought up before, so forgive me if I'm repeating things, but that was also over the course of the empire's entire history vs just 6 years. it seems just a tad unbalanced to compare...

Nonsense, the deer is clearly trying to lick Hephastions mighty sword!

well, they had a record of winning against overwhelming odds, even charging against pike squares and winning.

I think he was talking about the Repulse and Prince of Wales, considering the joke about British ships and kamikazes in WWII
"When a kamikaze hits an American ship, its six months at Pearl, when one...

War in 1938 means Germany is in quite a bit of trouble. they only have 48 divisions at this time in their army. Of these, three are Panzer division's equipped with light tanks, 4 are motorized, and...

How did that one saying go? I think it was something along the line of "A Gallic army would rout after 5 minutes against the romans. the romans simply had to survive those 5 minutes with a horde of...

maybe he had to look for one this, well, outlandish? its not like threads people start about spaceship riding Atlanteans are that common.

Fro what I've read Little Napoleon had two problems that really held back his performance. the first one was his methodicalness. I'm not saying this wasn't needed, he transformed the Army of the...

Not entirely true, especially in the American theater where is seems everyone loved to underestimate their enemies. Like in the battle of the Monongahela, where both Braddock and Dumas forces ran...

please point out where people have said hannibal could not be black because there were no Blacks in North africa. And unless everyone is Black in the Levant and we've just been colorblind this whole...

Maybe also that the roman army would have been a lot more uniform in quality and training as well.

The Ardennes was Mansteins brainchild, not Hitlers. Manstein was simply lucky enough to get an audience with hitler right after the original plans for operations in the west fell into allied hands....

not to mention that there had been plagues before, some just as or more deadly, in times where people would have been far more superstitious and less learned as a whole. indeed, plagues of this...

I would argue that it was not the plague that really damaged the reputation of the Church. what hurt them far more than anything else was the Schism, which pretty much cut the revenues of the Church...

The sweedish pike component at least was due in part to the Ga-Pa Tactics uses prominently by the Caroleans. Essentially they would move up almost to point blank range before firing, at which point...

Isn't that the same guy who said "an officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed"?

The main issue being many places tend to have an abundance of loud noises and pointy sticks. Camels and elephants not so much.

Actually WWII, provided it happened, might have gone a bit differently. You'd have had a Russia that would have still been at least on decent terms with the western powers, rather than one that had...

I'm aware my post was quite biased and simplistic. Mostly i was just A Running with the joke and B. Bringing up the whole "who the heck is running the diplomatic show here" aspect.

Wasn't trying...

Not to mention letting the alliance with Russia lapse, building a Navy and mouthing off Britain, Various attempts at gunboat diplomacy that always backfired and never really worked, telling Austria...

I seem to recall imperial Germany's problems tended to come from the fact that their "Diplomacy" seemed to consist of bullying, threats and an astounding lack of delicacy and tact. We're talking...