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Originally Posted by 4Tran

Ah, but are the Imperials reminiscent of the Red Army in 1939, or 1941, or 1942-3, or 1944-5? There's a world of difference between them.

Actually the Imperials are probably closer to Nazi Germany at the begining of WW2 with all the technological advances made during WW2 by all sides. They are seriously leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else, except, of course, Professor Theimer who was something like Gallia's mix between Einstein and all the greatest weaponry designers in history.

Seriously. Dude had a hand in just about every single weapon upgrade in the game except for about... maybe 3 of them?

As for the Federation, I would say they would be a copy of the massively underprepared pre-involvement in WW2 Soviet Russia. From the info in the game it sounds like they were pushed hard at the start until they re-wired all their industry into making weaponry and conscripting soldiers. Only then could they hold their own.

That doesn't make any sense. How can a country be faced with invasion against a superior foe who is quite successful and still be content to resort to volunteer forces. Such a conflict can only go two ways - if the invasion is broadly successful, then Gallia should be in a panic, trying to muster as many soldiers in the field as possible. This obviously hasn't happened, and the Gallian military is actually quite lacksidasical - which would mean that all of the Imperial attacks have stalled or have been sent into retreat. This would seem to be the case except that the narrative would have to be that Maximillian is an incapable commander.

Actually it makes perfect sense actually... well maybe not perfect. You see there are two major factors to take into account here:

1) Maximillian is very very very patient. He's been waiting ~15 years for revenge, knows he has the superior force, and mentioned a key facet of his desires for taking Gallia in episode 7. He didn't want to invade any faster and further until he learned that in case he potentially harmed it.

2) The nobles decide when and who the militia will conscript. Damon is the current favoured noble lackey of the man who makes those decisions. Guess who's getting incorrect and biased information about the war's progress?

Spoiler for Third Point:

(As a third one, it serves the purposes of the story to have the Imperial advance be slow enough for Squad 7 to run around the country freely. Later on in the show, ask yourself: "What if the Imperial advance had prevented them from going to the Barious Ruins?" The difference in the plot would be mind boggling.)

If there was such a strong current of segregation, then how do the Regulars replenish their losses?

During the war? I would suggest that they primarily don't. If they do, they would likely come from the ranks of nobles and any trained men that they bring with them into the regulars. Yes it's stupid. Yes it's inefficient. But it's Damon!

Spoiler for Largish Game Spoilers, though not overly important ones:

After all, in the game, they essentially get to the point where they're practically conscripting everyone simply because the Regulars got annihilated after one major battle and only the Militia was left.

By the sounds of things the war had ground down the Regulars to the point where they could almost all gather in a single place with relative ease.