Prussian Union Puns

So did they merge Lutheran theology with Reformed theology or are the theologies kept separate but the reformed and Lutherans use the same church? Like I read about it and I can’t wrap my mind around how you could possibly merge the two theologies together and it be logically coherent.

The two most fearsome armies of the mid 19th Century duke it out. For those who don't know, the Union Army was the American army of the north that reigned victorious in the US Civil War. The Prussian Army was part of a confederation that grouped up and conquered Paris in the span of 4 months, a feat that wouldn't be replicated for another 70 years by the same Germans.

Round One: The American military right after the conclusion of the American Civil War is immediately sent to France right at the start of the Franco-Prussian War in place of the French Military. After taking a month to get acclimated, the Union fortifies and prepares to take on the German coalition. Prussia wins if it can conquer Paris. The American army wins if it can hold out for a year. Who wins?

Round two: The Prussians replace the Confederate military in 1861. The Union wins if they can conquer Richmond. The Prussians win if they can hold out for 5 years. Who will reign victorious?

Each side got 20k troops and are fully armed with the best weapons they got by the end of their respective war.

Location: All 3 armies got displaced to a neutral flat terrain, each army are 3km away from each other

round 1: No prep, they all think the others must be destroy, all commanders got a map of the battlefield. US: Ulysses S. Grant, Japan: Saigo Takamori, German: von Moltke

Round 2: now the year is late 1871, all get to prepare before they got displaced to the same battlefield. United States Army vs Imperial Japanese Army (Rikugun) vs Imperial German Army (Heer). Now each army is double the size of the previous round.

Who would win? The American with deadly rate of fire, the Japanese with fearsome morale and melee or the German with devastating artillery?

In my current game as the Isles I ended up with the von Hohenzollern dynasty on my throne and was able to force a union with Brandenburg. I know that Prussia is the only formable nation that can be formed by a subject nation, but if they're my PU subject does my monarch still get the military point boost from the Prussian monarchy? I'm mainly wondering because a powerful Poland controls the last province I need to form Prussia so I'm debating whether I should prepare for a tough war against them. Thanks!

I learned in this sub fairly recently that some European historians consider the ACW the last large conflict before the beginning of "modern war". When I saw that I only had a popular history knowledge of the ACW. I've been reading a lot since then (not because of the modern war thing. I like to take conflicts one at a time so I can obsess. Also I play John Tiller wargames and knowing history is half the fun).

The first overview of the war I read was Savage War by William Murray and Wayne Wei-Siang Rseih. Very good by the way. A real military history that spends very little time on politics. Anyway the authors go out of their way to stress the logistical challenges posed by the incredibly large battlefield. The diverse terrain, antiquated roads and long rail lines.

He talks about how no army had dealt with those kind of logistics since Napoleon in Russia, and that invasion failed in large part because they couldn't be supplied. They point how much trouble Prussia had supplying themselves in the Franco-Prussian war. Then even went on to bring up the early stages off ww1 when it took Germany far longer to repair Belguim rail lines then it took Union Engineers in hostile country.

Was the ACW the first modern war and did the logistical feats of the Union and to a lesser extent the Confederates help to make that so?

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---Ailurophobia---

“So…?” I start, hesitantly.

“I’m not a Terran?” Tuun asks, matter of factly.

“Well…” uncertainly, drumming my talons against my perch, I decide to err on the side of caution. “...are you?”

She gives a mirthful puff of air through her nostrils before taking a moment to think.

“It’s true, I’m not a Human, nor have I ever set foot on Terra… Nor, for that matter, have I ever been within 50 light years of the Sol System… Despite that…” she breaks off here.

I prompt “Despite that?”

She seems to pluck confidence from the aether, in a very Terran fashion “I would consider myself Terran, by upbringing, Ma’am. I also completed a full certification at New Tromsø University, on Nova Fennoscandia, making me a fully qualified Auxiliary Security Officer.”

I immediately have half a dozen questions but manage to decide on one to start with. “What is your species and homeworld, Ms. Tuun?”

With decidedly deathworld confidence, she answers “I am a Don, of the planet DonOlu; it’s a tidally locked, Class 9 roughworld, in proximity to the Crab Nebula. It also has a highly isolationist culture, hence your unfamiliarity with it and with the Don.”

“Roughworld?”

Taylor answers “They’re planets that straddle the line between gardenworld and deathworld. Threats to life present but nothin’ so egregious as to make the planetary classification nerds shi… mess themselves. Sapient roughworlders ain’t as rare as sapient deathworlders but still pretty rare. Maybe a dozen in Known Space.” he glances at Tuun “That about the size of it?”

She nods at him and smiles with just a hint of purple in her cheeks. “Just so, Mr. Taylor.” Her tone makes it clear that she’s unused to others’ familiarity with the classification.

He mirrors her smile.

Breaking these two from their staring contest, I ask “So… if it’s not an overly personal question, how did you come to have a Terran upbringing?”

A pained expression flashes over her features for just a moment, before she collects herself. Taking great care with her words, she starts “I was born around five years after the Galactic Union’s Great Consignment Agreement; wherein, the Terrans were given settlement and development rights for all the Galaxy’s deathworlds which had, thus far, been considered unsettlable. A year after that, the Nova Fennoscandian colo

Originally I was going to make a tier list meme, but my computer and phone both decided to refuse to operate tier list creators. I will say I have obviously not played all these paths so some rankings will be based on TV Tropes' word.

This list is based on how these leaders operate on how their relation to the Nazi system is and how comparable to Hitler's rule they are. Any criticism of this list is welcome.

Tl;dr at the end

#Redemption Leaders

The best leaders for Germany are Konrad Adenauer, Bertha Thalheimer, and Hans Oster.

Adeanauer and Thalheimer are potential leaders of People's Germany should they win the Civil War. Adeanauer reintroduce democracy and joins the Toronto Accord, bringing Germany into the free world.

Thalheimer is a Luxemburgist and turns Germany into a free and fair socialist democracy. She doesn't stay in power for long, but her successor continues her libertarian reforms.

Hans Oster is the only leader of a Non-People's Germany faction, found in the Emergency Wehrstaat, that can reintroduce democracy and dismantle the Nazi Regime from the inside. The main downside he has compared to the other two is he continues the existence of the Greater Germany and the occupation of other nations.

Also, if you haven't been paying attention to what mod we're talking about, this is where the good leaders end. Everyone else after sucks.

#The Lighter Shades of Black

Our first group in this faction is The Dirty Commies

First is Erich Mielke, he is a National Communism and establishes a Communist Dictatorship.

Second up is Willi Stoph, his regime is akin to that of North Korea and holds the state policy of New Darwinism.

Now we move on to The Anti-Nazi but Still Fascist Gang. Both of which are found in the Emergency Wehrstaat.

First is Friedrich Olbricht, who follows a policy of Prussian Militarism. And then there is Hans Speidel, who reshapes German Fascism to match the Italian System.

#The Pragmatic

Hermann Göring, he is the Dengist of the TWR Universe (I said it, you happy?), and is the most pragmatic of the reformists. He makes detant with the TA and "reforms" the Holocaust (keeps the slavery and state rascism and imperialism, but slightly lowers the killing). Also, Göring being the least evil Nazi does not make him good.

#Literally Hitler

This is the group of Führers who are really not much different from Hitler. Let's go

Martin Bormann is obviously on this list. He does not enact any m

Howdy folks!

Excited to be kicking off the journey through this incredible novel this week. Against the Day is honestly tied with Gravity's Rainbow as my favorite Pynchon novel, so I'm stoked to dive in again and read what others think. Next week, u/LordNovhe will take us through sections 7-10 (pages 57-118, Penguin edition). The full schedule is available here. Beyond a summary and analysis, I've addressed some broader themes that are just beginning to emerge in these early pages in the interest of laying a strong foundation for your read-through and giving you some sign-posts for an expansive story, but I am religiously against spoilers, so fear not.

Summary & Analysis

Section 1

"Now single up all lines!" Thus begins our adventure with the Chums of Chance, a plucky group of aeronauts and their ship, the Inconvenience, in the year 1893, as they head toward the Chicago World's Fair (a.k.a. the World's Columbian Exposition), and all the modern miracles it promised. The Chums are straight out of the boy's adventure novels of that era (in particular, see Tom Swift and His Airship, which I suspect was one of the sources of inspiration for Pynchon). "Single up all lines" is a sailing and aeronautical term for undoing the secondary mooring lines holding the Chums' balloon to the ground, in preparation for takeoff, leaving only single lines holding it down. We're one sentence in, and Pynchon has already laid the groundwork for recurring themes of the novel: doubling, and the reduction of potential lines of possibility down to single final outcomes. Seems fitting for a novel building up to World War 1, no? It's also noted that the ship is "decked out in patriotic bunting," emphasizing the all-American idealism of the Chums.

We also can't overlook the epigraph, by jazz great Thelonious Monk: "It's always night, or else we wouldn't need light." Here's another theme, not just of Against the Day, but of many of Pynchon's works: light vs dark (but often in an inverted manner from their traditional connotations).

The Chums include Randolph St. Cosmo, the commander; Lindsay Noseworth, Master-at-Arms and generally irritable stickler for the rules; Darby Suckling, the baby of the bunch; Miles Blundell, Handyman Appr

Well, it's that time of the year again...! Black Friday is this Friday 26 November, but many stores have already gotten started early so it's time to get our megathread up and running :)

Big thank you to u/mangoes4daze who got us started with their Black Friday Sales thread, and u/SamStillReading who shared more Black Friday deals here!

If you'd like to see whether a store you're interested in might offer a discount, or what offers you can expect, you can refer to our Black Friday/Cyber Monday megathreads from 2020 here: Part 1, Part 2.

This will be the dedicated thread for all Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale info from now until next Tuesday. Please share any sale deals that you come across (including sale dates if possible), your tips for getting the best deal, and what you’re buying (if anything)!

This post will be regularly updated to add deals shared within the comments. Sort by “new” as well to see all the latest comments. :)

Apologies in advance for any errors - please check sites for exclusions, T&Cs, end dates, etc., and do your own research and time zone conversions before purchasing. Please comment if you notice anything wrong and we'll fix it.

Thanks u/Octoember for this reminder also:

#USPS ARE CURRENTLY NOT SHIPPING PACKAGES TO AUSTRALIA! Please check which shipping company is used before buying from the US.

More info/discussion on the USPS temporary suspension of Priority Mail International shipments to Australia: here, here & here.

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Some right wingers have always criticised Universal Health Care for it's significant upfront costs and logistical challenges but on the other hand, Universal Health Care is genrally considered to be good for the economy as it leads leads to a healthier populace, and thus, in the long-term, helps to mitigate the economic costs of an unhealthy nation.

So then what is Universal Healthcare ?

Well, Universal healthcare (also called universal health coverage, universal coverage, or universal care) is a health care system in which all residents of a particular country or region are assured access to health care. It is generally organized around providing either all residents or only those who cannot afford on their own, with either health services or the means to acquire them, with the end goal of improving health outcomes. It is described by the World Health Organization as a situation where citizens can access health services without incurring financial hardship. The Director General of WHO describes universal health coverage as the “single most powerful concept that public health has to offer” since it unifies “services and delivers them in a comprehensive and integrated way”. One of the goals with universal healthcare is to create a system of protection which provides equality of opportunity for people to enjoy the highest possible level of health.

The history of Universal Healthcare:

The first move towards a national health insurance system was launched in Germany in 1883, with the Sickness Insurance Law. Industrial employers were mandated to provide injury and illness insurance for their low-wage workers, and the system was funded and administered by employees and employers through "sick funds", which were drawn from deductions in workers' wages and from employers' contributions. Named after Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, this social health insurance model was the first form of universal care in modern times. Other countries soon began to follow suit. In the United Kingdom, the National Insurance Act 1911 provided coverage for primary care (but not specialist or hospital care) for wage earners, covering about one-third of the population. The Russian Empire established a similar system in 1912, and other industrialized countries began following suit. By the 1930s, similar systems existed in virtually all of Western and Central Europe. Japan introduced an employee health insurance law in 1927, expanding further upon it in 1935 and 1940.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Hello all! 40k’s Imperial Guard has an insane amount of varied regiments, but at time of writing, only the Cadians, Catachans, Scions, and Krieg have plastic kits- of those, the former two are ancient, and the last one is still exclusive to a box set.

I’m a big fan of other Wargames, and I’ve found a lot of Imperial Guard proxy options, and wanted to make a guide and share. The biggest benefit of these in addition to the increased variation and customisability is Price- £20-25 is the norm, but that’ll get you anywhere from 20 to 40 models, compared to the 10 from GW.

Note that this guide is non-exhaustive, and I’m not including companies I don’t have experience with (sorry, Victoria Miniatures), but I’d encourage everyone else to chip in with their experience(s)!

One thing that’s worth keeping in mind is that while these models are all 28mm, there is some difference in scaling. I personally don’t mind it as GW scaling is all over the place- for example, Perry Miniatures look really thin and tall compared to Cadians, but fit in well with Battle Sisters, and Warlord models look really bulky and deformed compared to the new Kriegsmen, but don’t look too out of place next to catachans. I’d also argue that they’re mostly all within the realm of possibility for human dimensions. However, I’ve had a few people tell me they don’t feel, for example, Perry truescale plastic kits fit in with Cadians, so that’s something to keep in mind. For what it’s worth, I’ve put an emphasis on Wargames Atlantic kits here, and they fit in perfectly scale wise with Imperial Guard from GW, aside from their Raumjager. Said kit is actually designed to be the same scale as the Cadians, but they’re a bit too bulky (I personally use them as troops in winter uniforms due to this).

For one final note, weapons are the main issue with most of these, as they’ll have congenital firearms. You can just use them as counts-as Lasguns, but it’s worth noting Wargames Atlantic is about to release a £6 upgrade Sprue that’s explicitly intended to convert sci fi versions of their historical miniatures.

#Anvil Industry (special mention)

Anvil Industry is a bit different from the others, in that they sell resin bits. They do have the option for full figures, but they’re more costly than the GW ones. They get an honourable mention, as the sheer amount of options they provide for any 28mm game (I use them for Bolt-Action, for example) eclipses everything else.

Hello colleagues, friends and GenossInnen

as is to be expected, Austria is often enough not mentioned in this sub for its achievements in terms of Social Democracy. But what should I expect ...

To change this once again, I'd like to tell a bit about one of the movements most famous but often forgotten members here in Austria. A curious person that tried to escape his village a few times, a man that saw the real devastation of industrialisation and pre-war capitalism. One that would change a lot of things - which echo until today.

Let me tell you of Ferdinand Hanusch.

Birth and early upbringing

Ferdinand Hanusch was born on November 9th 1866 in Oberdorf bei Wigstadtl (today Vitkov in the Czech Republic), then part of Austrian Silesia, Austrian Empire (only in 1867 the Austro-Hungarian Empire would be declared). His home region was only months before invaded by the Prusssians in the War of 1866, Wigstadtl was very close to the border to Prussian Silesia and known for its huge production of cloths.

His father soon died after his birth and Ferdinand grew up with three older brothers. Hanuschs mother was a Hausweberin or Hausarbeiterin (house weaver/house worker - meaning that she worked from her own home and not in a factory). Generally the family was poor and the children soon had to help contribute and earn money for their own survival. These memories lodged deep inside young Ferdinand - he went to basic school and found a love for reading which angered his mother.

Fleeing Vitkov - going on Walz

His first job was as a Hilfsarbeiter (unskilled worker) on the weaving machines in a cloth factory. [A little anecdote here: I share the same job title and description right now - I am currently a Hilfsarbeiter as a storage guy for a small electronics company in my home region.] This didn't satisfy young Ferdinand (at this time he was under 18 years old) so he left his home and went on Walz (better known as Wanderjahre - journeyman years, which were quite common in this time and can be seen from time to time in Germany and Austria).

For Ferdinand it was both an adventure as well as an escape from the dreadful state of affairs in his home region. He escaped three times - the first Walz at age 17 (1884) went via Odrau (Odry) and Tobitschau (Tovačov) to Kremiser (Kroměříž), via Göding (Hodonín*)* and Weikersdorf reaching Vienna/Floridsdorf. From Vienna he travelled thorugh Lower Austria and Styria to Cilli (Cel

(TL;DR at end but I ensure you it's a decent read)

I'm hoping the end result of this comes out slightly digestible, and after several hundred hours sunk into this game, I have spent the past few really trying to tie in the written lore, and also making observations on the world, and I think that either it was made with enough coincidences to establish a complete and logical lore beyond what is given or even implied, or, what i'd like to hope, it was made with a lore that was not intended to be easily found. After compiling my thoughts, I'd like to share them here, as essentially the best headcanon I can think of, specifically in turn to the turn of events that mostly predate Kenshi, as a game, and as a continent(?)

To this end, I would like to start with one of the most initially unassuming places that most people would never go due to our favorite death giraffes, Gut.

I have a few headcanons when it comes to the Trees here and honestly think that this place is one of the most overlooked pieces of Kenshi lore, that has some serious implications. First of all. Iron, Trees? 100 quality on every one of them? And Blue? The only way I know Iron to exist and be blue is in Prussian Blue, which is a complex chemical, so take of that what you will, but consider that Kenshi takes place on a tidally locked moon, with the planet it is tidally locked to being constantly eastward from the main continent of Kenshi, and that the main planet has large veins of the same color blue, and I think there are some serious implications. Beyond why the trees are Iron, and how this could imply that the skeletons could in fact be the first race by some reasoning, the implications that begin here are insane.

First off, this is all headcanon, but not unfounded. I personally believe that this entire area was terraformed when the residents of the main planet moved down to move in. The planet is eastward from Kenshi, specifically slightly northeast, so it makes sense that they landed here, and they likely found potential in this planet and wanted to see what they could do.

I am 100% certain that it was the east side they landed on first. The ashland domes are particularly suspect of an orbital drop pod, the exact shape they have and the black charring shows that they could not only orient themselves to land bottom-down on atmospheric re-entry, that black charring definitely seems like the consequences of heat, meaning that the first empire, which according to in game lore, there is n

Essentially, the mod as a whole would add expanded paths for the Nordics, and Sweden would have a monarchist path to restore the Swedish Empire, The obvious choice for the King would be Gustaf V, who was already King of Sweden. While he would be an option, there would also be a path to honor the legacy of Charles XII (Last King of the Swedish Empire), and Gustaf doesn’t work considering he isn’t from the same house or even related to Charles. In order to find an heir, you can request Italy to give Sweden the exiled Crown Prince Rupprecht. He was a distant relative of Charles, as well as one of the last monarchs of Bavaria, and an heir of house Wittelsbach, and it’s ancestor Palatinate-Zweibrucken (The house of Charles XII). He was exiled from Germany for opposing the rise of the Reich, and so he would be happy to reclaim his old lands under a new name. There are several focuses that allow the new Swedish Empire to expand after Rupprecht is crowned, listed below along with explanation:

Restore Palatinate Legacy: Gains Core on Jutland and Sjaelland, as well as the baltic (Demands Denmark and baltic Annexation)

Restore House Wittelbach: Gains Claim on all West German Cores War goal to take claims against Germany

Shatter the Prussian Hegemony: (Requires Restore House Wittelbach) Requires having all German cores controlled by you or a Puppet) You annex all of West Germany, Poland takes and cores all their eastern states The states of Danzig, Konigsberg, and Ermland-Mausen are cored and given to a new puppet called The Duchy of Prussia, ruled by Duchess Victoria of Hozenhollern (Danzig is also no longer international). Poland is always given the Eastern states, and they have the choice of either integrating the three aforementioned states or allowing Prussia to form.

Avenge The Battle of Fredrikstein: (Requires Restore Palatinate Legacy) Gain annex war goal on Finland and Norway

Avenge The Battle of Poltava: (Requires Restore Palatinate Legacy) Gain Puppet war goal on Poland, Lithuania, and Russia, as well as a claim on Leningrad

A Puppet Commonwealth: (Requires Avenge the Battle of Poltava, as well as Sweden or a puppet controlling all Lithuanian and Polish Cores) Creates a Polish-Lithuanian puppet which gains all Lithuanian and Polish cores, ruled by King Albrecht (son of rupprecht, former duke of bavaria) The new state is named the Commonwealth of Wittelsbach

Form House Palatinate-Wittelsbach: (Requires Avenge the Battle of Poltava and Av

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Source : The Catholic Transcript, Volume LX, Number 41, 13 February 1958 https://thecatholicnewsarchive.org/?a=d&d=CTR19580213-01.2.14&srpos=112&e=-------en-20--101--txt-txIN--------

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Konrad Adenauer himself received an honorary law degree from Jesuit Georgetown University in 1953 :

The St. Louis Register, Volume 13, Number 13, 27 March 1953

Here are the Knights of Malta proudly claiming Adenauer as a member of the Order :

>Dr Adenauer, a Grand Cross of Magistral Grace of our beloved Order, a man of exemplary piety, was the last truly Catholic statesmen of Europe, and man for whom religious principle and the Truths of the Faith trumped all consideration of career or political expediency. He had received the Grand Cross from Grand Master Chigi in person. http://saintjohnofjerusalem.blogspot.com/2018/09/dr-konrad-adenauer.html

Konrad Adenauer got on the Time Magazine cover (Jan. 4, 1954) and won \"Man of the Year\"

Konrad Adenauer, The Soviet New Times (December 11, 1954 )reported, had serious connections with The Deutsche Bank, even working for the banks supervisory council : https://archive.org/details/wall-street-ruhr-alliance-1954

>The Deutsche Bank has gained a predominant position in Bonn Germany, largely due to the efforts of Dr. Adenauer, who has longstanding connections with it. They date back to the Weimar years, when the present Federal Chancellor was Mayor of Cologne and a member of the bank’s supervisory council. The Deutsche Bank is the financial mainstay of the Christian-Democratic Union, the ruling party in Bonn. But it is equally true to say that the CDU is the political mainstay of the Deutsche Bank. **Its directors have traditionally maintained close relations with the Catholic clerical element in the Rhineland and Bavaria-— the forces grouped around

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

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Background : König Albert was the fourth vessel of the Kaiser-class. Laid down on 17 July 1910 at Schizau-Werke in Danzig, she would be launched on 27 April 1912 and commissioned the next year the 31st July. Interestingly enough, she was the last ship of the class to be launched, but the third to be commissioned, thanks to turbine issues on Kaiserin and diesel engine delays on Prinzregent Luitpold. She was part of the Detached Division – which consisted of Kaiser, König Albert and Strassburg – and was sent on a tour in West Africa and later South America. The goal was to represent the growing power of the Kaiserliche Marine and to test the turbines on long cruises. The three ships returned to Germany on 17 June 1914.

Albert participated in most of the major action of WW1. She did not participated to the battle of Jutland as she was in drydock for maintenance. However, she took part in Operation Albion, shelling the coastal defenses of the Sworbe Peninsula on Ösel to cover the advance of the German landings against the Russians. Later, she was assigned, along with Kaiserin, to suppress a battery at Zerel. The heavy fog, however, delayed them from engaging. The Russians seized this opportunity to open fire first. Thanks to the fog, Albert’s and Kaiserin’s retaliation was inaccurate and the gun battery was only silenced after Friedrich der Große arrived to assist. The three battleships would fire over 120 shells at the battery in the span of an hour.

Following the success of Operation Albion, Albert and Kaiserin returned to Kiel to support a minesweeping operation in the German Bight with several other capital ships.

Albert was supposed to take part in the fleet final action on October 1918. however, the sailors, weary of the war, mutinied. The battleship at that time was on picket duty in the Bight and was kept away from the unrest until she returned to port and her crew joined the mutiny.

Following the German capitulation on the 8th November of 1918, Albert and the High Seas Fleet were interned at Scapa Flow. She would be scuttled along with the rest of the fleet in 1919. Her wreck would be raised in 1935 and broken up for scrap at Rosyth.

Namesake : Albert of Saxony (23 April 1828 – 19 June 1902) was King of Saxony and a member of House Wettin. He had successful military career, leading his troops in the First Schleswig War, the Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War.

Albert would succeed to his father, King John, in 1873. His reign would

For a broad overview of Vicky 3, check out my announcement coverage on IGN: https://www.ign.com/articles/paradox-reveals-victoria-3-a-long-awaited-sequel-to-a-grand-strategy-series

For everything else...

CAVEAT: Everything I saw was very work-in-progress. Anything could change, especially specific numbers.

KEY: This is a simulation. It's not a map painter. Military conquest is not the main focus. Victoria 3 is more about diplomatic maneuvering, shaping your society and laws, building and industrializing your economy, and "tending the garden" of your nation.

• 1836 - 1936.

• 4 ticks per day, so the number of ticks per campaign is similar to EU4.

• The map is divided into States and Provinces. There are about 730 States at game start, which are the smallest unit you will interact with for purposes of politics and economics.

• It's possible to split existing states, such as when you demand a Treaty Port in a war or Diplomatic Play. This creates a new State that is only one Province in size. Even at game start there are some cases of having more than one State, gameplay-wise, within a single "State Area."

• Provinces are subdivisions that you usually only interact with for maneuvering armies and when colonizing (which is done one Province at a time as you add more Provinces to your Colonial State), and there are roughly the same number of individual Provinces as in HoI4. (According to Google, that's around 13,000 - roughly 18 Provinces per State on average.)

• Visually, urbanization will spread across individual Provinces within a State.

• The pre-alpha map we saw looks better than HoI4 but worse than CK3/Imperator. They did say specifically that it isn't done yet. You can definitely zoom in further than HoI4, so I'd say the map overall feels bigger than the HoI4 map. Zoomed all the way out it looks very similar to the Vicky 2 paper map. Zoomed in you can see realistic clouds and stuff drifting over the landscape. Railroads are visible.

• Well over 100 playable countries, but not all countries are playable. Most of Africa, parts of inner South America, and a few surviving native tribes in North America (including the Lakota, Dakota, and Cree) were not playable. These are "Decentralized Countries." Post-launch, they want to make them playable eventually. But they want to do them right because the gameplay experience should be significantly different. All the Decentralized Countries have names and governments. There are no "uncolonized" provin

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Recent research has shown for some time that by no means all layers were enthusiastic when the war broke out. The rural population was generally more cautious, and working-class families often did not cheer. It was clear to the German government that they could only successfully mobilize the population for this war if it succeeded in convincingly presenting it as a case of defense.

In all countries the opponent was portrayed as an aggressor who had to be countered out of pure self-defense. So everywhere people went to war with the conviction that they were simply defending their homeland.

This belief contributed significantly to the fact that the overwhelming majority of people identified with the war and were ready to die in it or to sacrifice their husbands and sons to it. The war would not have been possible without the consent of the masses - that too is one of the consequences of democratization.

Similar scenes took place in all European capitals: huge gatherings at the declaration of war, cheered leaders, invocations of national unity and strength - 'truce' on the one hand, 'Union sacrèe' on the other.

Even the Social Democrats took part and approved the war budget in parliament. For many it was a great and moving experience to finally be accepted into the bosom of the national community. From the perspective of social democracy, one of the most important arguments was that this war was against the despotic power of Russia - where, with Tsar Nicholas II, a decidedly reactionary monarch actually ruled.

In the Reichstag, the socialist MP Hugo Haase shouted: 'For our people and their free future, a victory for Russian despotism, which has stained itself with the blood of the best of its own people, means a lot, if not everything, at stake.'

But the socialists also emphasized their patriotic feelings: 'We will not abandon our own fatherland in the hour of danger,' it was said in parliament.

The overwhelming part of the women's movement in all warring countries turned themselves into national service and ended international cooperation. Nonetheless, there were still voices against the war, and there were a striking number of women among them. Rosa Luxemburg was deeply disturbed and appalled by her party's approval. On Christmas 1914, the British feminist Emily Hobhouse and a hundred other women's rights activists wrote a

What up what up its time for Part 6 of the Great Powers of Victoria 3 series, and today I'm talking about Spain. As always with these introductions, I have a couple of disclaimers: Firstly, this is a summary and blah blah blah, if you've been following this long then you know that I can't cover everything. Second, I have found contemporary historiography for Spain in the 19th Century to be pretty lacking, and indeed up until the post-Franco era, sources are quite rare to find. This has resulted in a lot of anglophone histories being used (which is a shame), as well as many sources written well over a hundred years after the event, which naturally makes things less reliable. I think in a similar theme to the Austrian Empire, the fact that Spain was in terminal decline at the time puts people off a little, and Franco's censorship of really anything with slightly liberal leanings meant that what histories were produced are fairly static in their output. In my experience, people like to focus on the good times, not the bad, and the 19th Century was certainly pretty bad for Spain.This has been quite an enlightening experience for me, hopefully I can convey what I've learned well to you all. Thirdly, my last post got stuck in the mod approval queue for like, 16 hours. I'm not entirely sure why because other posts were making it through at the time I tried to post, but I'd assume it was because it was so long. That meant that it missed the window for it to appear on most people's feeds, and while it received a small amount of traction, it was nowhere near what other posts in this series had received. I have decided to assume that this lack of attention is because of how long it spent in the mod queue, and not just because people thought it sucked. If you get through this post and think it was worth your time, go check that one out too - there are links at the end of the post for all in this series so far. If you’d like to read about Prussia before reading this one, then check it out here.

I will, as always, be paying close attention to the comments. If anyone wants to talk about any aspect of the post in further detail, tell me how wrong I am about everything, offer up a source or otherwise, please feel free to do so. I heartily encourage participation. Anyway, let's begin.

As always, I’ll start with a brief introduction explaining the thirty or so years pri

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