That's a good point. I'm probably going to update the TOE of the liberion infantry to be more like RL late war US Marines, with three BARs per squad and substituting the platoon's 60mm mortars with bazookas while increasing the proportion of rifle grenadiers, although keeping that many automatic weapons supplied in the expansive ETO compared to the small pacific islands is going to be a challenge.
Sending dudes with rifles is just wasting ilfes and materials made on making such rifles.Becouse when LMG could be sometimes efficient,when rifles were not.
It comes to a question of weight and weight of fire. LMGs are heavy, the Browning Automatic Rifle which was halfway between a battle rifle and a true LMG weighted roughly 16lbs compared to the 9.5lbs of the Garand rifle and due to its higher rate of fire the use of ammunition will be greater than a rifle during prolonged engagements so the soldier using the rifle needs help carrying enough ammo for a prolonged engagement, now in the Marines and in early WWII army infantry formations that was done by an assistant gunner and a ammo bearer or by the rest of the squad carrying some magazines in addition to their own loads. In a theoretical BAR infantry squad even reducing the ammunition loads on account of supression fire and a higher weight of fire the entire unit still needs to carry its own weapon plus at least the same amount of bullets that they would for their Garands (and that's a very conservative estimate), and if they're not part of a mechanized unit they need to walk miles with it just to reach the frontline so they would take longer to arrive and would do so more tired, plus the tactical stamina of the unit would suffer as well, requiring more dedicated logistical support to replentish ammo.
Completely different mechanics, I haven't quite worked how it works, but the SW spirits are on a symbiotic relationship and the spirit themselves are actual thinking and feeling beings. on the other hand the Type 95 is more like a cursed item that indoctrinates the user but has no will of its own, similar to the gag episode of Road to Berlin when the idol statue gives everyone huge boobs and a desire to become more fertile.
shrugs
Tanya already got her battalion, and both Dacia and Legadonia have fallen by now but before Arene. As for the SW finding about Tanya, they have had limited contact with her during the initial investigation on the portal and a brief firefight between the SW 501º and the YS 203º but both her magic power and her age are common enough in the SW universe than they would find more remarkable her degree of the War College that her Silver Wings Award for courage (equivalent to a Victoria Cross or a Medal of Honor) because the youngest member of the Strike Witches (an elite multinational squadron who mostly recruits aces and/or powerful witches) is twelve.
This is a very common misconception. The closest thing to a genocide of the Aztecs was the Native allies taking revenge, which is completely reasonable given the generations of human sacrifice and cannibalism they had suffered. The Conquistadors actually tried to stop the attacks on civilians, but their numbers were simply too few compared to their native allies to really control the situation.
That actually is true,Aztecs after taking their capitol were murdered by spanish allies,not spaniards.
Agreed, dive bombers are better, in particular against WWI vintage ships with less armored decks. But there is a problem, they're also really good against heavy Neuroi, with the Dauntless and the Helldiver operating not only in the Liberion Navy but also in the Army Air Force as the A13 and the A26. The Ju-87 served well during the evacuation of Karsland and its factory's machinery ceded to Gallia where it resumed production which ended in both countries calling posterior dive bombers as Stukas, not to mention Fuso's own flimsy but long legged designs used in long range strikes.
True,that is why they sell not 1940 dive bombers,but their plans - or,even better,idea of dive bomber so YS Germany could build their own using new engines.
Plans for modern planes are hard. It's not only the plane, but also the infrastructure to build the plane and the raw materials to do so as well as transferring large part of the same machinery you're using to build planes so the resources for that are limited as well.
All of them very good ideas, but I haven't thought that far. At this point both sides are still testing the waters with the Empire offering only the A35 Junkers training orb and the League offering military surplus readily available that can be drawn by theater commanders in Europe with limited paperwork. As the relationship becames less shaky, the scientists are reassured that the hole between dimensions is not going to implode anytime soon and the utility of the orbs is confirmed under fire the allies are going to offer more, and at the same time demand more while the Empire will have to start thinking how to allocate their store credit to get the most bang for their buck, especially because Tanya will eventually point out that the allies have twenty years of additional knowledge, thousands of research institutes and a magical tradition almost as long as written history, if they became too bothersome the League will pull off all the stops to reverse engineer the Computational Orbs, and if the daughter of an albionese poet could do it then five thousands scientists with near unlimited budget can do as well.
Something which help and easy to transport -
Artillery is very doable, Neuroi are irritatingly hard to kill with indirect fire so batteries are overall found in smaller quantities and there's a surplus of prewar artillery available, including acoustic locators for counterbattery and (empty) chemical rounds.
Why,neuroi used trains ? WHY? they could fly,right ?
Some neuroi fly some don't. We actually see ground neuroi on the SW Movie, the spin off Brave Witches and the third OVA. As for why a train? In addition to geometric figures of different grades of complexity Neuroi imitate animals (real and mythological) and tech, not only from the WWI and WWII but also from the future, with at least one becoming a freaking SU-47 Berkut. The Bullet Train Neuroi appeared during the evacuation of Karsland as a method to pursue the humans through the railroad system, they were relatively unsuccessful at that role since air recon could find them with ease and derailing them followed by mortar fire was actually safer than engaging a conventional heavy neuroi unit. But since they ripped apart the tracks they did immense damage to existing infrastructure, in particular in abandoned stations were the most expensive gear is found.
Train neuroi was waste of resources,then.
A lot of what the Empire could best use would be schematics and a few examples. More importantly, the best case for everyone is that the Great War is brought to a quick end by diplomacy, allowing the Empire to do what it does best; mass production.
Indeed, if the Empire is smart and not too greedy they will come on top. However half of the canon problems come from the Empire being both cocky and greedy, the surprise attack by NotFrance comes from the fact that after Legadonia's border intrusion (an action that pathetic doesn't deserve to be called an attack) instead of containing them with the Northern Army and calling for a ceasefire with the support of the Allied Kingdoms (who brokered the first peace treaty) they decided to conquer them using the Central Army, their strategic reserve, creating both an intolerable security hazard for the Francois (being x, I hate that name) and an opportunity since their reserves were on the other side of the country. If Revolving Door happens as in canon (and I haven't decided yet how far the SW butterfly changes things) then the tech they get from the other side will just add fuel to the fire and provoke the world to escalate even faster.
The League of Nations need to be frugal with their finite resources in order to fight a war after having a continent half-depopulated. The Neuroi gets resources from thin air as if they were part of a cheap videogame or anime, they don't care about wasting their resources until after the defeat of the Gallian Hive when they are finally losing, and by then the heroines are getting cheap power-ups like a videogame or anime character.
Yeah. Perfectly reasonable for them to be pissed off. Now imagine what would happen to Gallia if the Empire detects and decisively stops a large scale evacuation under flag of truce done with the willful and malicious support from Albion?
I'm trying to find a balance between each other, although I admit it's easier to write on the SW side because the timeline is far less saturated than YS and the characters have less to worry about interference from third parties which gives a lot of freedom to incorporate whatever element I want without having to consider a very close possible endgame such as Revolving Door or the Evacuation.
You could always focus on YS characters on the SW side of the portal. Anyone who joins in on the fighting over there can expect a massive tech windfall, and can make a obscene amount of money from millitary sales. Simply exporting food should make a lot of money, as it would be fresher and going over a shorter logistical train. A lot of the ammunition used on both World Wars is compatible, as is fuel.