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[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 0 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

What does it take to impress you? To what would you assign their disturbing success?

Meth chocolate, fascism, and taking on armies using WWI tech and tactics

[–] somename@hexbear.net 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It can't be discounted the amount of luck they had early on, as well.

[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 0 points 8 hours ago

Yup, biggest thing is that their attack, though expected by quite a few powers, came out of left field and add in the rushing forward on armies still using cavalry units and the early massive land grab via Germany makes sense