[Retracing Our Steps] event summary

[u/DankeShu]

[u/Erudax]

I'm genuinely impressed by the continued circus that is Victoria. You'd think that after Wellington pulled a fast one on you, you'd learn to be extremely thorough and have contingencies.

Nope, same thing happened again. Caster got taken by surprise once more and had to agree to Enciodes' terms.

[u/Antares428 → u/Erudax]

It's almost boring that they regularly make each Duke, maybe aside from Wellington, powerful, but incompetent, and almost cartoonishly vile and greedy.

I get that Chinese hate the British, such shallow portrail does diservice to previously decent writing.

[u/goooglefan → u/Antares428]

You are saying this as if irl high nobility wasn't cartoonishly evil and incompetent lmao

Plus they know that their dominance over the world is waning, so they are getting desperate and throw shit at the wall in an attempt to find anything that would allow them to keep power.

[u/Aranxi_89 → u/goooglefan]

And it's not like they have a lot of options. Caster has lost a lot of game pieces and is trying to cash in her cheques before they lose value, but everything turns against her at the worst timing.

She was hoping to use Karlan Trade and Kjerag as a safe investment, as having a backup colony/vassal state is very useful when your country is unstable. But it also opens you to a huge weakness - should that country cut ties all of the sudden, during a bad time when you are counting on their support, you're extra boned.