What went wrong?

>>147285708
It ended

>>147285708
Not enough time spent on the Terraist plot.

>>147285708
You, making this thread.

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Yang Wen-li's death

One sided empire superiority on battles.
Really, the show could have benefited for having another good republican admiral besides Yang.

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Rudolf wasn't vindicated.

Not everyone was cute as Reinhardo

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>>147288945

The FPA were more competent though as a result of having a military based on merit rather than pedigree. There's considerably fewer admirals in the FPA than the empire at large (not counting Reinhardt's hand picked golden boys) that are portrayed as grossly incompetent. I can actually only think of two guys at the top of my head (you know the ones).

They were held back by politics though. Because of that they had less effective technology, a smaller budget to work with and some pretty fucking idiotic military campaigns ("let's just fucking throw our army into the meatgrinder because its election time soon and we need a major victory to get reelected!").

This is why Yang was so harshly critical of the leaders of FPA.

>>147288750
This. Also Julian.

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>>147288945
>>147289595
>who is bucock?
why do people forget him, loyal, and competent. His legacy was as admirable as Yang.

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Was Yang sticking to his principles just pure stubbornness? I mean he pretty much put an end to his entire country.

it's been while since I've watched it, and maybe I've just forgotten too much, but it was really too long. I think the same story could have been told in 40-50 episodes without losing much at all. There's just too much filler.

>>147290084
only 'filler' IMO is the terraist stuff, felt like a side story

everything else is essential and not filler.

>>147289804
was Julian supposed to be the Wesley of LoGH?

>>147289595
>>147289815

To put it this way:
>The empire's borders were secured by Iserlohn blocking FPA from mounting a succesful attack. They also had the perfect base of operation for deep strikes into FPA territory, and unlike FPA they would have no concerns about peasants dying.
>FPA:s boarders were protected by numerically inferior army (FPA had a smaller population and presumably a smaller military budget) using technologically inferior ships (more canons to compensate for lacking firepower, no ability to land on planets).

Yet somehow FPA was never defeated before Reinhardt purged the empire simultaneously as FPA suffered through rebellion of its own.

>>147290222
Generally, authoritarian states suffer from lapses in effective authority over the bureacracy. To actually maximize an authoritarian state, you need to concentrate power in the hands of a single leader.

>>147288889
He get killed by a folder, died alone, without anyone by his side. It still got me.

>>147290222
There are several factors at play:
>Phezzan's very existence depends on the status-quo, and it's stated explicitly that they work at several levels to prevent a reversal. If the empire got close to a breakthrough, Fezzan would sabotage it or provide covert help to the alliance.
>The empire was characterized by shitty human material before Reinhard cleaned it up. Any attempt to invade the FPA would be held back by complacency and incompetence.
>Iserlohn is an extremely good stronghold, it takes very little to defend it. It would take an expensive and difficult force buildup to actually hold a bridgehead across the corridor, let alone a larger area.