Wow people are triggered. To address a few things said:
- (this had nothing to do with the topic and was just argumentum ad hominem that has 0 to do with the actual matter) IMG collaborated with CR in a mutually beneficial agreement, when there was an IMG leadership and membership that was literally the diametrical opposite in personnel and behavior of what it was during the Aland crisis. What ever "help" IMG gave CR was given years ago by completely different people (or RP characters) that showed completely different behavior, irp and oorp. Don't claim rewards for something you didn't do. Also, I wasnt even part of CR when aland happened so even your (failed) ad hominem is completely misdirected. If you want my stance on it... everyone was wrong. Devs were wrong to take the shipyard, IMG was wrong to reject their offer of better mining in Dublin and go hostile, and CR was wrong to not stay out of that clownshow.
- If royals were really that concerned with their own people's well being instead of personal power over everything, they wouldnt have been engulfed in a civil war and they wouldnt have sent their nation into a crazy world war they couldnt win. If you think such conflicts and tin-pot nationalist dictatorships are a sign of true love for one's people and not a way to control and abuse the ignorant masses for your own benefit, there is probably no convincing you anyway.
(10-26-2020, 09:56 AM)Shimamori Wrote:
(10-26-2020, 03:09 AM)Karlotta Wrote: Because national unity and integrity is everything to a bunch of genocidal authoritarians who had no problem sending their soldiers to their deaths and oppressing their own populations before they were ousted in a civil war by the guys they're now siding with because muh gallia.
A very good reason to keep sides unbalanced too. For the rEaLiStiC rP!
If we start talking about "realistic RP" let's start from the premises of the war under which Kusari should not even have the capacity to lead an offensive war with invasion after economy depleted by 813-817 war with Bretonia, 817 obliteration by the Gallic Royal Forces, 817-825 Gallic puppet regime, 823 (?) - 25 - civil war, 825 - conflict with Rheinland. And people say w years are enough to restore economy after that.
If we speak about "rEaLiStiC rP", then one needs to take into account the economy side of war which is the most important actually unless you can win in a few battles with blitzkrieg which is not the case here. If we turn to how most countries were restoring after the war (either WWI or WWII, or more local conflicts) you will see it takes much more time to restore to pre-war state. Even Japan managed to launch economy by mid 1960-s and only with the assistance of the US who forcibly opened their market to cheap Japanese goods.
As for the Enclave - you think they would further their goals more by siding with Kusari who explicitly said they were after war criminals from the Duchy (and the Enclave, obviously) to get the label of collaborationists and never get the badly needed support within Gallia and lose the support they already have? Yeah, mucho logic. You win the couch geopolitician prize, congratulations.
I never said the Kusari invasion, or the reason they gave for it, made any sense at all, or were a good choice.
