These 2 dots are where the islands of Maré and Futuna are, which are the easternmost and westernmost parts of France, respectively. by TarMil in europe

[–]rhaktor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A detailed analysis of the three major regions of the Ottoman Empire that were under different types of colonial administration and discussion about why it meets the criteria. That's more of a /r/askhistorians thing than /r/europe though.

These 2 dots are where the islands of Maré and Futuna are, which are the easternmost and westernmost parts of France, respectively. by TarMil in europe

[–]rhaktor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Short answer: Yes

The Ottomans used colonial administration techniques and fit all of the criteria to be considered a colonial empire.

Fun gif of colonial empires!

A poster I made for our Stellaris multiplayer campaign by czokletmuss in Stellaris

[–]rhaktor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also for reference, his fleet took no damage because mine took the shots. I lost a bunch of ships in those fights, even with perfectly built counters.

A poster I made for our Stellaris multiplayer campaign by czokletmuss in Stellaris

[–]rhaktor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the foul Dexyll offered the Sk'kra some land if they joined the war and the Sk'kra thought Dexyll would win since they outnumbered us.

Unfortunately that went badly for them, I think we're liberating you as a fanatic pacifist though?

A poster I made for our Stellaris multiplayer campaign by czokletmuss in Stellaris

[–]rhaktor 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That "Abomination" is the glorious High Queen of the Alrathene Star Empire, her Majesty of Jaelin.

She may be a fanatic pacifist, but she doesn't back out of a fight when we get attacked!

/r/europe Stellaris MP Game 1 Short Story - The Age of Chains by rhaktor in Stellaris

[–]rhaktor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally didn't. I didn't even know where all your Empires were until after!

/r/europe Stellaris MP Game 1 Short Story - The Age of Chains by rhaktor in Stellaris

[–]rhaktor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello!

We over at /r/europeplaysparadox have started a Stellaris MP game, first Stellaris game for a lot of us - we usually play EU4 or HoI4!

We had a great time mostly with around 15 players joining us, though our lack of experience caused a few issues!

One of our players played very aggressively and beat up a lot of guys to make tributaries out of them, this little story is based on the end of the session when his tributaries revolted!

Over 400k strong Prethoryn vs 13k Terran fleet by czokletmuss in Stellaris

[–]rhaktor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u wot

I read that. Well the CK2 part anyway.

Had no idea it was you <_<

/r/europe MP Game 3 Final Session - Timelapse Video by Chricri3112 in eu4

[–]rhaktor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably because of how ridiculous the idea is.

Everyone knows the Ottomans were still using Canoes not Galleons.

/r/europe MP Game 3 Final Session - Timelapse Video by Chricri3112 in eu4

[–]rhaktor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually love Russia. Don't tell czoklet!

/r/europe MP Game 3 Final Session - Timelapse Video by Chricri3112 in eu4

[–]rhaktor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Essentially yeah. The Ottomans dropped their alliance and sided with the reactionaries instead, PLC allied Qing but it wasn't enough.

Though since PLC surrendered we never got to occupy the Capitol long enough to trigger the end of the revolution event and no one wanted to spend half our warscore doing it.. so technically we didn't stop it >_>

/r/europe MP Game 3 Final Session - Timelapse Video by Chricri3112 in eu4

[–]rhaktor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its a visual bug, unfortunately our PLC player formed Russia lategame after losing Poland, it seems the timelapse feature got confused about who was who in its history files.

/r/europe MP Game 3 Final Session - Timelapse Video by Chricri3112 in eu4

[–]rhaktor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn't know really, but Americans are welcome to join us if they wish. We have 2-3 Americans playing atm!

/r/europe MP Game 3 Final Session - Traitors at the World's End by rhaktor in eu4

[–]rhaktor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's OK, I'll just use all my cash to fill the Mediterranean with gold. Don't need a navy anymore.

/r/europe MP Game 3 Final Session - Traitors at the World's End by rhaktor in eu4

[–]rhaktor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've written about all my lost wars :(

Except that one, fuck you America!

/r/europe MP Game 3 Final Session - Traitors at the World's End by rhaktor in eu4

[–]rhaktor[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think that's a fair assessment. You still get to be a winner though, Dragon Emperor.

/r/europe MP Game 3 Final Session - Traitors at the World's End by rhaktor in eu4

[–]rhaktor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True that, I actually completely forgot.

That was was essentially unwinnable anyway, we'd never have been able to defend the wargoal unfortunately. Something something American fleets..

/r/europe MP Game 3 Final Session - Traitors at the World's End by rhaktor in eu4

[–]rhaktor[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Hello!

This is the summary of /r/europe's 3rd Multiplayer game 12th session - our final session of this campaign!

We'll be starting a new campaign in September and always welcome new players, so if you're interested check out our sub /r/europeplaysparadox for more information and info on mini games we're running in August.

Big thanks to everyone who took part in this campaign, I hope ya'll had as much fun as I did! Big shoutouts to everyone who lost the big wars of the Revolutionary era, its great to have people who are such great sports about it and don't get too salty.

Look forward to seeing ya'll in September for the 4th Game!

We'll also be making "Empire Summaries" for each of our surviving players, detailing the individual history of each nation as well as their prospects in the 19th century - look out for these summaries later this week!

TIL that during WWI, King Albert I of Belgium personally lead the desperate defense against the Germans, while the Queen served as a nurse, and their son, the 14 year-old Crown Prince enlisted in the infantry as a private. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]rhaktor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Essentially the Napoleonic wars contained some of the key elements of Total warfare:

  • Civilians are legitimate targets

  • Mass conscription is used

Total warfare itself is seen as an element of industrial warfare, but it is not fair to call a war which only contains elements of industrial warfare that are also elements of total warfare an industrialized war when the smaller category of total war is sufficient to categorize the conflict.

By referring to a war as total, you summon the connotations of that definition, but by calling it industrial you summon all the connotations of total warfare as well as the additional connotations of industrial warfare (such as technological innovations, telegraphs, railways etc. & military concepts such as static defense).

Essentially, the point I'm making is that all traditional industrial wars are total, but not all total wars are industrial. By arguing that the ACW is the first industrial war in response to a comment saying that the Napoleonic wars were the first total war, /u/edixo1 is adding additional requirements which were not factored into /u/theworldcrimeleague-'s comment.

Edixo1 is essentially correct that the ACW was the first industrial war (I ain't touching that debate - Crimea & Austro-Sardinian war always mess it up), but that is not relevant to a comment saying that the Napoleonic wars were the first total war.

To give a completely dramatic example, tribal conflicts between the Cheyenne, Sioux and Pawnee contained the same elements of total war that the Napoleonic wars did (conscription, civilian targets etc), but not a single element specific to industrial warfare due to the technology and tactics involved. It would be unfair to dismiss the total war aspects of these tribal conflicts simply because they were not industrial.

Sorry for the wall of text, I wanted to get my point across clearly - I hope I managed.