Recent content by Count of Crisco

I could see one of the post Claudian emperors decide that they wanted to be known as a conqueror and launching an invasion of the rest of Britainia, it would not be as major a risk, nor as expensive, as an invasion of some other neighboring territories like Parthia or Dacia so may be seen as a...

Aka the Japanese army and navy fight their true enemies. On a more serious note there are so many times Japan could have had a civil war.

I am probably wrong, but I assumed alot of the reason was national in nature, France, England, Spain, etcetera, all had the political and economic power to feel like they were better than being grouped into the same dioces as their neighbors.

To be fair that strategy of fight everyone had worked for Prussia, problem is it worked in a very specific time with specific circumstances and things had moved on.

Yeah I was trying to make a list myself, I also think they won several colonial conflicts in the period, I would also add the Sino French war.

I think Poland was mostly just on the route of invading armies throughout history… Mexico on the other hand was conquered by a couple dozen shipwrecked Spanish dudes.

Cant see outer worlds without mentally adding the voice from and shouting (sometimes outloud but usually inwardly) LISAN AL GAIB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe a scenario where Hapsburg Spain at its height when it controlled Portugal, Austria, the low countries, and much of Italy makes peace with the Ottomans and set distinct spheres of influence for one another in the central med could fit? Say Spain does this before becoming embroiled in a long...

If no Taco's then no Tacobell, no Tacobell means no Baja blast flavor of mountain dew, and thats not a world I want to live in!

I actually wrote a TLIAW or something years ago which had Strathclyde allying with England against the Scots and Norse out of self preservation, the kingdom maintains its own independence afterwards as a buffer between England and Scotland over the next several centuries. Iirc the kingdom signs...

HEICN Is way to short of an abbreviation and we can do better. What about the Honorable East India Company Maritime Trade Defense Forces HEICMTDF?

Allow me to introduce you to the rediscovery of the ramming attack as a viable tool which came about as a response to the fear that the development of ironclads, which seemed to have rendered guns obsolete as the weapons of the period were generally inferior in some eyes to the task of...

I dont think that equality was a big factor of Atenism, though the faith did make a major move to remove alot of the power of the previous temple system which had alot of control over the people. The side effect of moving away from the existing religion of the state was that those involved in...

Adding to that I have read that the Soviet and Chinese economies were less effected by the depression due to being on the silver standard at the time, though their economies already being near rock bottom probably helped to as there is only so far down you can go.

An LCS or two would take up most of the Irish defense budget to run I would think. Surely the give would put a stop to it. Edit: looked it up and if USN estimates are to be believed Ireland could run ten of the things if the entire defense budget went towards them.