Sure Rome has no lasting win since the Niketas Era. But they dont exactly have any lasting loss since the time of troubles either. You all talk about Iskandar, but what did he take from the roman apart from some empty deserts? And funfact, they also lost most of his conquest immediately after...
Oddy literally marches east further than Alexander ever did and secured the eastern frontier for generations. Thats a great victory, shame the tourmaches thrown everything away.
Its not like the roman had any actual defeat since the time of troubles (sort of, they technically won but lost...
The Tang tamed the steppes without gunpowder , Russia could do the same. And its generally accepted that gunpowder weaponry are the beginning of the end of steppe empire, while there are defeats here and there, the general trend is there.
A pod with earlier spread of gunpowder and more...
Russia was a superpower for sometimes otl though.....
And could a white russia keep control of Ukraine, Central Asia etc? Wouldn't it fragment along roughly otl border without a unifying(on paper) ideology like communism as opposed to russian nationalism which is the most likely result of a...
The problems with these geographical arguments is the fact that rome has been reunified several times when it was split into warring states with rougly equal power bases. Crisis of the third century and The Caesar-Pompey civil war comes to mind. So why does Rome stops unifying itself after 476...
I dont. Expain please.
Anyway the question is whether the tourmarched will quit now? After all a war in the east means the Latins might act. Also whether this is enough to break their power
Question: with the Persians being the sole supporter of the Mesopotamian right now and the fact their population are mostly Muslims, wouldnt it be wiser for them to convert?
Ah yes Europeans are the only people who know math because they wrote a specific book on the topic. Just like how Chinese are the only people who knows war because they wrote the Art of War and Indians are the only people who knows sex because they wrote Kama Sutra.
I would say because the whole selling point of the tourmarches is to increase the security of the heartlands , which means north, to prevent a repeat of the great latin war,. Italy, to prevent a repeat of the milan invasion or the tenth crusade . And east, to prevent another Persian/Turkish...
This is going to be a disaster. A bunch of hothead with some military experience going up against Iskandar. If the surprise fails to sweep off mesopotamia , they are going to seriously lose all of Mesopotamia.
Gyranos reform if implemented will catapult the empire ahead of its competition. An education system that can get the literacy rate above say 60% would mean a much more innovative and productive economy.
Anyway, this looks like a disaster in the making, honestly this should have been an...
Thats because of French demographic problem in the 19th century. France was the demographic beast of Europe before that point. And i expect with the ongoing devastation of Germany, they are going to keep this lead for a long time. Unless England somehow burns down France in the upcoming triune...
Why? At that point it was pretty clear that France is lost and iirc people seems to think Britain will sue for peace, atleast Hitler and Mussolini did. Why is it unbelievable that UK would sue for peace?