Good news for this idea: They are ready and primed for revolution to potentially happen!
Bad news: They are ready for a revolution. And A certain someone is currently NOT in France.
Heads might be chopping regardless of our actions!
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La Chanson de la Victoire (The Song of Victory): La Petite Arpenteuse (Non, SV, you are a General of France in the Napoleonic War!)
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Bad news: They are ready for a revolution. And A certain someone is currently NOT in France.
Heads might be chopping regardless of our actions!
Magoose
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It's a OC.
He's basically the Red Napoleon (I use that because... Well... You'll see)
Oh shit Communism is coming
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No not communism, just someone who will make Borodino look like a minor skirmish.
Oh boy...let's hope we can stay on Russia's good side then.
Honestly, if we ever come to blows with Russia again, we HAVE to fight it defensively. Invading Russia is a losing Strategy, no matter how you do it.
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Fighting Russia is a losing proposition. Invading them means you have to deal with the oppressive summer heat, freezing winters, and endless seas of mud in between. On the defense, they can and will throw waves of conscripts at you until you are buried in a mountain of corpses and drowning in blood. And this is before industrialization. It's not like the tsars actually care how badly off their serfs are, they just see an endless manpower reserve and vast untapped resources. You can win in the short run, but quantity has a quality of its own.
Sure. Hence why I said IF we come to blows with them. The Implication being that we should do our best to not come into any serious conflict with them at all.
This is sort of true and mostly a stereotype. The Tsars may or may not have actually "cared" about the serfs, but even they had to take into account public opinion of the serfs and of the Russian Nobility. Not to mention, when Napoleon started his invasion of Russia, his army actually outnumbered the Russian Army, which put the Russian Army initially on the defensive until the Grande Armee was weakened enough to directly confront. The Russian Army was not endless. And Russian Army did suffer from equipment shortages and lack of trained and untrained conscripts due to lack of sufficient industry, horrible transportation infrastructure, and inability to get men where they needed to be.
Not to mention, the Russian Army did have excellent generals such as Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov. Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov, and General Pyotr Bagration. These men cared about the lives of their soldiers and were very skilled generals. They were very much not the kind of generals who just send their men to the meat grinder.
Superevent - War of the Second Coalition: French Victory
Superevent - War of the Second Coalition: French Victory
"It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory."
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The Tricolor victorious once again
"It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory."
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The Tricolor victorious once again
A.N.: Better late then never. Hope you like it.
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So British have india? Or there is still resistance?
Magoose
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There is resistance but nothing can stop the British Empire.
For reference, those reforms would have to be at least (if going by historical done early, but at same rate):
- Abolishing serfdom
- Establish local urban governments
- Fire and replace about half of their generals
- Open officer recruiting to the middle classes
- Set advancement to be based on education
- Establish a War Ministry
- Overhaul and consolidate previous military institutions
- Place the military under formal civil rule
- Systematize and codify military operations
- Found the Prussian War Academy
- Begin formally training a General Staff
- Reorganize conscription into shorter terms, and with a monthly churn at the company level
- Abolish corporal punishment
- Train soldiers in skirmish techniques and in the field.
- Break down the independence of the cavalry, artillery and infantry through integration
- Attach a Chief of Staff to each commander.
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Magoose
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And they have to do it before 1800, unless they can get some of their own rolls to do well and extend the deadline to 1812.
Yes... They are in for a shitshow.
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So does this mean that OC French officers could appear if needed?
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Magoose
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They've appeared since the beginning of the quest. Severin And Chamans are prime examples.
Very likely.
Magoose
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Let's just say this: that oc is only a colonel under Surov and he is not god tier just yet
in fact he will only get god tier if you manage to do the impossible in Russia.
make Russia bow on their home soil.
but at this point yes the trait may need adjusting and I will do that tonight.
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Magoose
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Actually yes: you may make an OC officer in an omake and if it becomes popular or well written enough, we will add in the person to the officer roster.
Hey guys, I found someone that could be useful in improving our firearms. His name is Jean Lepage and he helped lay the foundation for percussion cap firearms and made a rifle carbine. Here's his Wiki link
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Jean Lepage - Wikipedia
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Hey guys, I found someone that could be useful in improving our firearms. His name is Jean Lepage and he helped lay the foundation for percussion cap firearms and made a rifle carbine. Here's his Wiki link
Jean Lepage - Wikipedia
He's currently 16. So unless his OTL career started very early (the link does not give any detail on his early life), he's too young to have any influance yet.
edit: also Fuminates are not yet discovered OTL, IIRC and I don't see anything in the TL which changes this.
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Right sorry, just was trying to find people that could help our weapons development.
How about Jean Samuel Pauly? If we get Switzerland on our side we could get him to assist in firearms development.
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