thank you that clears a lot up and are they still limited in mountain or winter operation
An Age of Miracles Continues: The Empire of Rhomania
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What do you mean? Peter the Great did not industrialize Russia. Russia didn't even get rid of serfdom until a century and a half after his time, and even then it tried to maintain social and economic stratification right up to the Bolshevik Revolution.
The Empire on the other hand has cultural & ethnic majority in the Greek-speaking peoples, has incredibly high literacy for a pre-industrial state further pushing the Imperial Greek culture, allows social mobility for well-to-do commoners, has high administrative efficiency, has extensive road networks and shipping routes throughout its core territories, and is building up strong university & schooling traditions roughly analogous to 19th century Germany.
Going by your argument I can say that it won't go the way of Russia since Russia is a different example.
Well that's ominous, sounds like the Allies have pushed into Thrace. Constantinople is the anvil, while the hammer will swing in from across the straits?
It's interesting that the army has expanded so rapidly, how aware are the Allies of these developments? Seems like Demetrios is winning the intelligence war, would be disastrous for the Allies if they reach Constantinople only to find that the Roman army has doubled in size.
Demetrios will certainly repeal this tax when the war ends, wink wink. Governments using wartime expenses to pass through major taxes is nothing new. Major taxes in some of the Western nations these days were "temporary" taxes implemented during WW1/WW2 for example.
I love this incomprehension on Theodor's part. He honestly believes this war can be won. It's almost endearing, in a pathetic kind of way.
Donald Reaver
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Theodor is going to be horribly overstretched, he must be struggling to replace his losses. The farther he advances his shaky supply line is more overstretched, and more garrison troops used. A major defeat outside of Constantinople, he will have a fleeing army disintegrating before his eyes, returning to territory already plundered of food.
I just noticed your signature.Love the callback. How long have I been oblivious to it?
You’re not oblivious at all, it’s a recent addition. The pdfs you’ve been releasing for the patreon inspired me to reread the whole thing! I had forgotten he was first mentioned as second-in-line to the crown of Lombardy
I wonder if the “king of the cows” will ever avenge him... *cough* Vijayanagara *cough*Great update, love all the stuff Demetrios is doing to make the Empire a logistical juggernaut.
You’re not oblivious at all, it’s a recent addition. The pdfs you’ve been releasing for the patreon inspired me to reread the whole thing! I had forgotten he was first mentioned as second-in-line to the crown of Lombardy
Great update, love all the stuff Demetrios is doing to make the Empire a logistical juggernaut.
The Roman empire looks like they are still like the super power(elephant) in Europe, Far stronger than during Andreas Niketas time.
During Andreas Niketas time, the weight Rome was throwing around was due to Andreas Niketas capability. Even at the Battle of Cannae, Andreas never outnumbered the Latins to this degree. If I remember correctly, Andreas was outnumbered and outgunned(more cannons) by the Latins. He won it thru flanking the Latin position than the full force of the Empire.
Don't worry, the inevitable catastrophic defeat Romans will get soon should fix that issue.
The HRE and the UKs are still bigger than the Romans, in population and material resources. The Romans are just better able to harness and utilise theirs. Once Latin institutions catch up, they'll easily out match anyone in Europe, save for a reunited Russia.
Unlikely to last, industrialization will hit their populations the same and the Roman Empire is larger, soil exhaustion will give way to tractors and fertiliser. Turkey with Anatolia alone has a population of near 90 million today, certainly the Empire will surpass that and most likely all other European states bar Russia TTL.
The Empire's ethnic policy will play a large role as well. We know that the Western European nations will adopt scientific racism and treat non-European ethnicities as secondary citizens at best, while the Roman Empire classifies people based on their culture.
Evilprodigy
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You're treating it like this is a predetermined thing. There's still the possibility of cultural change in both the Romans and the broader European culture.
Perhaps, but we know from the future POV snippet that the Roman Empire considers everyone that speaks Greek "Imperial Greek", no matter what they look like. The Triune historian was expressing disgust at the "backward" Greek propensity to ignore modern things like blood purity.
Ofc that could be the historian's bias coming through, but having a highly placed academic to spout that kind of hard racism implies much.
Oh yeah, forgot about this bit. The Triunes are already killing people for mixing blood with non-Whites.