Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-4656717-20130106102552/@comment-32656-20130107073221

Incorrect, Cal.

They were, in fact, not "good allies."

Absolutely wrong about the numbers during the Austro-Prussian War. The Prussians outnumbered the Austrians by a fairly large amount. There's a reason they did so at almost every single battle during that war. Same goes for Prussian allies.

Overall, you're very wrong about that war. Prussia held massive advantages in firepower, mobility, organization, and even in numbers. A-H had no chance whatsoever.

Look at Russian problems during WWI. Subtract a few decades. Makes them far worse. Russians don't get any troops on the scene before Austria gets beat up, and then Prussia shifts its troops, and beats the stuffing out of whatever Russian troops arrive. An "immense army" does squat for you if you cannot bring it to bear.

And, the Prussian troops sent after the Austrian's allies outnumbered them too, for that matter. No doubt, as well, that Prussia still left forces at the Russian frontier. Austria? You miss entirely just how much of their army was kept elsewhere to keep things "quiet."

Let's just say that Otto was a bit of a moron. And the Greeks didn't take too well to the idea of the monarchy, anyways, as history showed.