• db0
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    52 months ago

    Byzantium joins China and later Belgium who had entirely too much faith in their “impregnable fortifications”.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      For a long time their faith was warranted. And not like they could do much in that situation from what I remember, they didn’t have much power to go on the offensive.

      • db0
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        42 months ago

        Ye, it was a dying empire at that point anyway. But we’re just shitposting here :D

      • @Rolando
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        22 months ago

        Light novel idea: someone like Bismarck or Cavour is isekaid into Byzantium of this era, and has to diplomacy it back into a world power.