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This but in reverse

Rome couldn't conquer ancient Sudan. I think modern Africa could fair even better.

This isn’t Ancient Rome, but it is Medieval Europe, lol. store.steampowered.com/app/2109770/...

I know they're barely sentient racists over on X, the ai csam app, but the Egyptians alone would do horrible, horrible things to every 39 air force. What the fuck is 39 europe gonna do against Rafaels? Or Pz 2s against Abrams?

95% racism, 4% thinking troop numbers are completely determinative, 1% "M2 on a jeep actually is still doing work."

laughs in precision guided munitions

We'll, it helps if you are incredibly racist if you want to believe these things.

You'd all remember that the apartheid-era SADF had a motto that indicated their self-belief in their ability to generate violence on the battlefield : "40 days to Cairo". They've actually been said to have improved since the end of apartheid.

Also where are they fighting because having to do an opposed landing in North Africa when the best air superiority you can muster is hurricanes and BF-109Es against Egyptian jets is uhhhh

Romans nearly lost to Carthage, and blue check wants me to believe they could beat modern Ethiopia?

If it said 1939 America helicopters would exist... but Europoors can't be us 🤷‍♀️

There are Somali gangs that could manhandle the Roman Empire single-handedly.

top post make sense while the bottom post is FASCIST BULLSHIT which will be ousted by gavin newsom this 2028!

The only difference is that militaries now might be slightly less focused on anti-personnel weapons (due to tanks and planes and ships), but the ones they do have are so much more effective.

I am willing to be that more than few of those assholes believe that all Africans even in this year of Alan Ritchson 2026 still fight with spears.

And I'm not even touching the Roman question because that's utter fantasyland.

Holy shit LOL

The thing about Hearts of Iron 4 is that the AI is bad at its job and will fall for your tricks over and over again, and the worst players don't seem to realize that it might be slightly harder to lead a real nation in a war against real people than to exploit a video game.

"Don't siege Leningrad, take it immediately"

The 40k bigots are infamous for never posting a single mini that they've painted. Hobbyless behaviour.

This would basically be repeating that time some American tried to take over Nicaragua

do they not understand that many women also have guns

The funny thing is if there's anything the Roman military was good at, it was losing. Do they not know whose ass Pyrrhus kept kicking until his army was exhausted?

Just imagining GBU-103s vs a Roman camp

This was my first thought. The war opening with Italia just absolutely tripping out the gate.

I was gonna say, one country literally defeated an invasion from that exact era

Just seeing this would make them surrender.

A malnourished child conscript with an ak-74 might as well be mf psycho mantis to them

Oh yeah! Pz Is and IIs were the vast majority of German tanks, then you had the Czech LT vz. 38 among several nations, (or Pz 38t if you want to go with the exact situation in 1939), and the Soviets with their huge fleet of about 20k tanks (but most of them in terrible shape). Hmmmm... wondering...

An army of JUST technicals would not be that far off a horde of Hellcats!

1,000 Afrika Korps Panzers vs 1 coughing Toyota Hilux

How does a Roman legion defeat a half dozen technicals?

A Toyota HiLux with a large cal on the back could take out whole Roman legions (assuming they even stuck around after essentially witnessing God's thunder)

hitler would be shitting blood if the toyota war came to 1939 germany

These are the people that think they could take Serena Williams.

It'd almost be worth seeing that scenario just to see 1939 Italians try to roll up on Ethiopia for a third time only to discover that the Ethiopians have T-72s.

What’s the point of having so many military dictatorships if not to quell the call of chuds?

Bottom post is just -Mussolini, 1935, colorized