Ed Piazza

The State of Thuringia-Franconia has recently come across footage that is purported to be of an engagement between Empire and Confederacy forces in New Pacifica. While we have yet to verify its origin, it appears that the Empire forces in this particular theatre have, in fact, been routed by the blitzkrieg tactics of a joint Stanistani-Paroulian force deployed by the Confederacy. Said footage can be viewed here.

Tonight, there shall be a of Chaos. But grieve not, for Jodo left the world as he came into it: drenched in the blood of his enemies. Those who remain, however, stand resolute as ever... and in due time, .

My Chief of Intelligence informs me that the training available for our operatives is sadly lacking in one important aspect: that of misdirection. (Personally, I think he's been spending a little too much time playing Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.)

Soldier count is tied to population anyway, so all you'd really be doing is adding extra work for minimal gain; besides, it's entirely possible that a country might have more tanks than they have trained crews for (We Have Reserves* and all that, don'tchaknow). Now, if you wanted to limit the number of tanks you could use in an attack based on the number of soldiers you're deploying... that would make more sense. * - Warning, TV Tropes link

Would you rather fight one hundred duck-sized horses, or one horse-sized duck?

Sealand

Polandball

The Ultimate Answer.

Weapons

Franz Stigler

Sechsunddreißig!

Radar

Vanilla

Fake.

Folded photograph/10

Yeah, that's the basic premise of the Ring of Fire books. What I like most about the series is twofold: One, they're relatively accurate from a historical perspective; for example, while not all of the "down-time" people are actual people, a lot of them are based on real people and families; for instance, Rebecca Abrabanel herself didn't exist, but the Abrabanel family did, and they were a well-known line of Jewish financiers. Two, they pay attention not just to the big names in the conflict (e.g. Gustav II Adolf, Axel Oxenstierna, Johann Tsercles, and General Wallenstein), but to how the actions of the big names affect the little guys.

...What?

Dammit, Mike Stearns never should have- oh. Oh, there we go. *ahem* Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am Edward Piazza, president of Thuringia-Franconia. I'm here to do two things: kick ass and chew bubblegum. And since the Ring of Fire kind'a cut off our bubblegum supply, we're all out of gum. (Also, for those of you who may be interested in alternate history... yes, I drew inspiration from Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series. It's an awesome look at what might have happened if Gustav II Adolf hadn't died at the Battle of Lutzen; in the case of Ring of Fire, his survival is partly due to the fact that a small American mining town from Virginia got hurled several centuries back in time and several thousand miles across the world to the middle of Germany during the Thirty Years' War.)