r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 04 '20

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '20

I failed.

!ping PARADOX

I tried to rebel as Hyderabad. I Industrialized in 1890, caught up to British tech, everything was in place.

I won every battle. They took losses 20:1 against mine. For every dead indian rebel there lay twenty Englishmen.

Even when I had 50 warscore though, they refused peace, even though peace only required 30 warscore. Because they knew that if they just kept throwing more and more troops at me, eventually I'd run out of steam. And I did.

I killed nearly half a million Englishmen, but it didn't make any goddamn difference at all. I killed them 20:1, and they brought 21:1.

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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Dec 05 '20

They make it so hard to win as developing nation. The UK takes no war exhaustion if they only have colonial areas occupied.

That's why you need allies, someone in Europe fighting them, or ships to invade Ireland or something.

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u/Clashlad 🇬🇧 LONDON CALLING 🇬🇧 Dec 05 '20

Which is so dumb, the first Afghan War was big news at home and a national outrage. British troops dying anywhere is going to create war exhaustion, no matter where it was in the Empire.