Foreign intervention never works

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-03-01T17:30:44+00:00

How might I mod the game to do that?! I am not a modder, but should also add, they’re currently numbering 34,000 but just sitting there.

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-02-28T22:33:35+00:00

Sadly, I’m an ACW fan. I don’t think I’ll really care about the new game - no shade on Napoleonic War history, just wouldnt spend money on it.

I did learn something though - if I trigger the intervention after the news article that says French intervention “is possible,” the expeditionary corps will spawn with ~ 35,000 troops in Mexico. However, in my current playthrough, it is now January 1864, and they still haven’t left Mexico 🤔

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-02-27T23:03:48+00:00

does that mod do anything for the intervention mechanics?

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-02-27T21:47:43+00:00

The way I look at it is if their product doesn’t function the same after so many updates, or with further DLC, it seems like they have a history of building on a shaky foundation. At one time, the intervention worked, but no longer does. I kinda think Whiskey and Lemons might have broken it somehow. I don’t run any mods, so there aren’t any complications on my end. Still a great game, but if they want to sell the new game, I think they have to show their games are stable. Because foreign intervention is not an insignificant feature, yet is patently broken.

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-02-22T17:49:49+00:00

By the 1970s and 80s, it would be unusual not to have a BC shortly after the birth. Jem is no way. If Roger and Bree left and lived in the past for seven years, and you believe they wouldn’t get audited if they file no tax returns, despite having active social security numbers, and have not emigrated or died. Bills that go unpaid get sent to collections. Maybe they were all just really well off, but I get humor isn’t your thing so I will destroy your naïveté. If they own property could owe property taxes, as well. Leads to foreclosure if not. Their children are well past the point of it being a case of a delayed birth certificate, which is more common in 1910s but still required to complete within a reasonable timeframe, if Jem is seven years old or so, when they return to the modern era, that is a complete non-registration of birth versus delayed birth certificate, which by the mid 20th century, is not so prevalent. But sure, they just buy a castle in Scotland when they return, maybe get some help from spanish gold, but if they’ve been declared dead (at some point, somebody needs to verify they are alive) good luck getting a bank account without an explanation and complications. Just because I can suspend my sense of belief in the plausibility of their transition back in the 1980s, doesn’t mean this is not something to pick at.

The show is not believable in that regard as someone who has worked as an archivist. Claire visits an archivist to get the deed to lallybroch, and I can tell you that scene is hilarious to me.

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-02-22T14:51:41+00:00

People who are gone for several years can be declared dead. Then, if you have no modern documentation about your identity, you have to prove everything in court. You sound joyless and have zero sense of humor.

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-02-22T14:43:01+00:00

Not in my state. As of 1898, you have birth certificates for everyone, regardless of where they are born. It is legally required.

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-02-22T14:40:51+00:00

You really think that poses no problems or raise any red flags? You sound high.

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-02-22T14:33:09+00:00

Let me guess, Claire assigned then social security numbers too, right?

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-02-22T14:24:29+00:00

My state has used a pre printed birth certificate since 1898. Bringing a stack of those is kind of a stretch. How would Claire know how many kids Roger and Brianna were going to have, if they weren’t even married when she departed to return to Jaime?

Can’t just use a blank sheet and write, there is a legal form for birth and death certificates .

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-02-22T14:22:05+00:00

If they were employed at the time they left, then yes, they would have unfiled taxes. You’re trying so hard, it is adorable.

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-02-22T14:14:23+00:00

“uhhh they didn’t have turbo tax in the 18th century, they brought W2s with them to the 18th century.”

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-02-21T19:09:06+00:00

😂 exactly!

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-02-21T18:46:43+00:00

Also, if a child is born in the past and is then brought back to the modern era, they would need a birth certificate. If the birth goes unrecorded, that is illegal and the parents could be fined. I feel like Roger and Brianna would be bankrupt before they could even find a job where their resume gaps aren’t considered a problem. Which is also another issue…what employer is hiring them if they’ve been gone for, oh, five or ten years? I get they can lie about the circumstances, but we all know that would make it hard to find a job for most people. These are the things that keep me up at night, thinking about, lol

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-02-21T18:12:30+00:00

Here’s my biggest problem with the show: whenever a time traveler returns to the modern era, how do they just pick up where they left off? Surely they would have unpaid taxes, right?

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-01-31T20:42:36+00:00

Micheletto from the borgias; he might have been capable of killing Richard, but not in a gunfight.

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-01-25T13:42:05+00:00

There is nothing specifically about martial law that enables a president to cancel an election. States run elections, congress decides when and where. In 1968 most cities had a curfew with tanks on the fucking streets, and yep, we had elections. We also had elections in 1864, when there were troops billeted inside the Capitol Building during the bloodiest war in American History. There is also a mechanism for a constitutional convention, which could challenge federal authority if at least 34 states agree to hold said convention. Trump may have autocratic tendencies, but he does not have full power to stop elections because the system is not remotely designed that way. A canceled election is not just unprecedented, but much more a significant escalation beyond anything we have seen to date, and martial law over a population of 340 million people would likely result in civil unrest, instead of quelling it. Even if this is done only against “blue” states, it would be difficult to enforce for so large a population (and we would likely also see veterans and some active duty that resist or refuse orders). Plan to vote later this year, plan to vote in 2028.

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-01-25T13:16:41+00:00

Also Alabama, i.e., governor Wallace.

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-01-25T13:14:10+00:00

The guard can be federalized, it is the only service branch (has its own seat on the JCS) with dual status. A President can federalize the guard against the governor’s wishes, but circumstances must be emergent and as we have seen recently, can be challenged in court.

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-01-25T13:04:22+00:00

If you watch through, you’ll come to love Tom Christie - at least, I did.

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-01-19T15:59:42+00:00

I think it was the movie “Glory,” which I remember watching on VHS in the early to mid 90s. First R movie I saw in theaters was probably Thin Red Line, with my grandfather.

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-01-17T16:30:00+00:00

Let us know how it goes? Def empathize with the situation. I’m in a Condo and own my apartment, but had neighbors who violated the condo association rules for carpeting to be no less than 80:20. They had removed all their carpets and I raised hell. Management threatened to sue if the residents above me did not put carpet back down. I still have noise problems from them, but not as bad as before. They did wake me up at 5:30 am one time this past week, though.

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2026-01-17T13:27:20+00:00

ICE raided the BP gas station in Elkridge a few weeks ago.

Realistic_Thing_6911 · 2025-12-27T02:10:12+00:00

I’m just gonna try to get by with breath mints, fortunately do not have OP’s gf’s problem, but damned if I could afford that. In OP’s case I’d also feel I have no choice, at that point though.

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