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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Certified "Hold my Raki" moment

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You know how it is, late at night, deep in raki and cold water with the boys, and someone challenges you to destroy the age-old nemesis of your rising empire - tale as old as time!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.