Recent content by Red Alucard

It's a very simple test: Are we supposed to be cheering for the person in question? Are we meant to hope for his or her downfall?

Glorious Non-aligned movement?

Simultaneously, the military also needs to be rich enough in STUFF for having more conscripts to matter. I mean, why conscript women into your two million strong army, when you only have one million rifles at the moment?

What about "Don't disband the Iraq army and fire every single experienced man they have", combined with "allow the government to interfere in the holy free market to fix infrastructure"?

Just wanted to comment on the idea that Soviet troops are going to be impressed with the living standard of the areas they're occupying - they're not going to be impressed. The reason is that NOBODY is impressed by smoking rubble, and it's hard to sell something as boundless prosperity when...

Actually, the Mongols were very supportive of Buddhism, it's just that they spread Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism rather than the Zen flavor.

How far back would one have to go, and what would be a good point of departure from the historical timeline, in order for Japan not to be a unified country, but instead several independent ones?

...oh. Can't help you, then. Sorry.

You can with a very simple mod that lets you play as, well, anyone. http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=206207

Damn this game. I was playing as the King of Croatia, and scraping by, enlarging my kingdom slowly, tentatively, while trying not to piss off the Byzantines too much. I was also mostly broke, and as a consequence my Stability tended to be low. Then I finally managed to save up enough money to...

I just fought a victorious war against the Ming as Japan. It turns out the best way to win a land war in Asia is to spend all your money on inciting peasant rebellions, and then having a ten year war during which your enemy's War Exhaustion rises to intolerable levels. Suddenly, the Ming had to...

I don't think you quite understand what "trinity" means. Setting that aside, there's no need to inflate the trinity. Putting Mary in there is completely stupid anyway. You're also assuming that, after being put in a gladiator ring, Jesus randomly becomes a generic action hero and just starts...

Spain doesn't like giving credibility to secessionist movements, because it has its own to deal with.

What's a "move of history" and what makes it so objectionable?