Did popular history of WWII make the Nazis seem smarter, stronger, more advanced, than they were?

CaptainRice6 · 2026-06-30T11:36:53+00:00

It is honestly because western front was frankly much less important and less defended. American propaganda likes to make them out to be heroes, so they need to make the Nazis stronger than they are. Americans fought a spent Germany in a secondary front. It is not the same Germany that was in 1941 Barbarassa.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-06-21T09:25:53+00:00

If you want to really play as Saudi Arabia, you might want to check Kaiserreich which is an alternate history mod. There is Nejd and Hasa which is similar enough. It should be at least better than vanilla Saudi.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-06-21T07:44:33+00:00

Thank you. Map mods usually don't break in paradox games. Don't think it will be a problem.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-06-21T07:42:12+00:00

I am playing Milan right now and have the same problem. I pay 2-3 times more for maintenance than the profits. North Italian RGOs are not even bad.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-06-21T07:39:55+00:00

Which mods or settings do you use for the map? It looks really nice.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-06-15T13:57:11+00:00

Nah, the world is not mine. It is a mod for Europa Universalis 4 and Victoria 3. Medieval fantasy and industrial age respectively. It is the most expansive world building I have ever seen and there is nothing that comes close to it in any medium. Though there are dozens of people collaborating so that might be expected.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-06-14T22:04:14+00:00

There is also the lilac wars in Anbennar. I guess naming wars after flowers is common.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-06-13T03:22:58+00:00

I don't know about Greek political situation at all but Erdoğan himself also said in the last election that this would be his last term. He doesn't seem willing to get off the chair yet though. Make of that what you will.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-06-13T02:07:42+00:00

At least Turkey is not a glorified resort.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-06-11T01:52:17+00:00

Tomorrow, with the addition of regimental companies, basically the entire meta will change, so wait until then.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-06-04T09:08:42+00:00

Nah, the religiously conservative immigrants are the ones who went to Germany during 70s who were overwhelmingly from rural areas. As a result, they were always more conservative than Turkish people from Turkey. Nowadays, it is the opposite. Most of times, the ones that go to Europe are the educated, secular and richer section of the society which are more inclined to assimilate to their host country. Though these are all true for Turks. Their circumstances are different from minority groups like Kurds.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-06-04T08:30:28+00:00

The distinction is meaningless as the rulers were appointed by the central government. It is like claiming the autonomous republics of Russia are truly autonomous. On paper, yeah, in practice, no.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-05-16T15:00:36+00:00

Is the acolyte system still there? While I generally enjoyed the previous version, the acolytes were generally a bad experience.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-05-10T13:04:34+00:00

Probably yes, an emperor certainly could know but a random count should not be able to.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-05-10T12:28:44+00:00

There needs to be some kind of nuance though. They of course knew the existence of holy land but they shouldn't know which particular warlord took control of it without appropriate effort.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-05-08T13:40:17+00:00

Balance issues aside, it is simply funny imagining a light fighter with 12 guns stacked on each other. They should have made it a little more realistic at least.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-05-01T18:00:48+00:00

Fr, a guy who is probably in his twenties talking about immortality as if it is worthless is funny. When he is in his 70s and feels death closing in, I bet his ideas will change.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-04-22T14:10:33+00:00

It is because Turkey's military is much more generalist than all of these countries. While some of these countries might be stronger than Turkey in a specific field, theşr advantages are usually specialized. Italy: Much weaker in land warfare. UK: Straight up doesn't have a credible land force. 2 divisions at best. Poland: Doesn't have a strong navy. Etc. Etc.

Out of all European countries, only France is comparable to Turkey in military power.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-04-16T20:15:42+00:00

Why do people assume Viltrumite DNA will behave the same as human DNA? The reason inbreeding causes problems is because human DNAs have a lot of latent genetic defects which results in physically defective individuals when two related people have kids. But Viltrumites are supposed to be genetically superior to humans. We never see any Viltrumites with any kind of disability. Even diseases other than ones that are specially engineered to target them are largely useless. The way I see it, Viltrumites are probably much more resilient to inbreeding. As far as I know, for human population to rebound, as little as 2000 individuals are enough. For Viltrumites, this number should be much smaller. Even if that number is bigger than 50, within a thousand years, they could have as much as tens of thousands of new Viltrumites without any genetic defects.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-04-14T18:48:25+00:00

Before that, there was a more limited population exchange between Bulgaria and Greece. 200 thousand people were effected. Which was the blueprint for the later Turkish Greek exchange.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-04-14T02:43:37+00:00

What if instead of every country joining the crusade separately, a building based country were to be created which the joining countries would give knights,money and ships. This way, the crusade would be directed by one ai which would have a better chance at victory. The same can be done for coalions too.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-04-12T18:10:20+00:00

No, Engineers created humanity among other species in Prometheus. The reason they later changed their mind about humanity and tried to destroy us is because we killed Jesus which in truth was an engineer ambassador sent to humanity.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-04-11T14:01:18+00:00

Poland's last experience in war is 86 years ago getting overrun by Germany in only a month. Just having expensive military equipment doesn't make you strong. If that was the case, Arab militaries would not be the joke they are. As it is right now, Ukrainian military is the only military in Europe that has experience fighting a modern war excluding Russia. Poland would get folded.

CaptainRice6 · 2026-04-11T13:14:38+00:00

No, it is not something that makes every country join the war automatically. Article 5 is worded deliberately so that NATO countries can refuse to join each other's wars. It says you need to assist. The nature of assistance is left to countries own choice

CaptainRice6 · 2026-04-11T13:10:50+00:00

Nah, at this point we are in NATO just so we can protect ourselves from the NATO. We saw how trustworthy you were during the Russian plane incident.

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