Kannap wrote:Let's take a quick Google search of the 21st century weapons each of these nations have militarily (quantities in bold if they're listed):
Reminder that you've been told already that Yugoslavia no longer exists in the modern day. I'll assume you mean the six countries that were formerly Yugoslavia: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.
So, uh, 21st century equipment is not going to be a deciding factor here. Unless you're telling me you expect these countries to overcome the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Japan, Italy, Britain, and France relying on *check notes* 384 pieces of artillery, 13 ships, and 6 anti-aircraft guns as "superior 21st century technology."
I suppose the question you're really asking with this hypothetical is "Can a handful of countries with relatively small supplies of Cold War weaponry and equipment take down almost the entire world when that world has lots of WW2 equipment?" To which I'd answer: No, that's ridiculous, why'd you ask?
Just gonna pull the first numbers I find via Google:
- Greece has a wartime strength of 750,000 soldiers in the modern day. Only 100,000 soldiers are active duty in peacetime.
- Albania has 8,500 active duty personnel.
- North Macedonia has 6,100 active duty personnel; 12,500 reserves
- Bulgaria has 33,112 active duty personnel.
- Serbia has 17,850 active duty; 50,000 in reserves
- Bosnia and Herzegovina has 10,000 active duty personnel; 6,000 reserves
- Poland has 65,000 active duty personnel; 45,000 reserves
- Hungary has 37,650 active duty personnel
- Croatia has 7,514 active duty personnel; 6,000 reserves
- Romania has 68,500 active duty personnel; 53,000 reserves
- Slovenia has 7,300 active duty personnel; 1,500 reserves
- Montenegro has 2,400 active duty personnel
Now let's compare those to their enemies (again pulling first numbers I find):
- Nazi Germany had 13,600,000 soldiers
- Great Britain and her dominions had 8,586,000 soldiers
- France had mobilized 5,000,000 soldiers at the start of the war
- Japan had 1,700,000 soldiers
- By war's end, the Soviet army had 11,365,000 soldiers
- Italy had 2,560,000 soldiers
You want me to believe 1.3 million soldiers stand a chance against 42.8 million soldiers?
HahahahahahaOh, you're serious? Let me laugh harder
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAI can't be arsed to go about looking up Turkey and China's modern arsenal, you should've listed them with the rest of the countries I did above.
Wait, are these countries just automatically getting sent back via time traveling or are they given far enough warning in advance to study Indian history in depth and memorize it before losing access to the internet?
This is your brain on Hearts of Iron IV