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r/victoria3•

How to break the holy alliance?

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I tried to form Scandinavia as Sweden but every time I try to get Finland for myself from Russia Germany and Austria join them, which is just too much. Even 30-40 years into the game, they are best buddies. Is it possible to influence their relations to break the treaty and fight Russia more equally?

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r/AskEconomics•

What are the side effects of a “Freedom to invest” act?

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I was thinking about a law that could incentivise everyone to invest (assume that as the policy goal), preferably into productive assets, while potentially addressing some other issues. I call the idea the “Freedom to invest” act. The idea is as such:

  1. All companies must have an account that is opened with the total cost of the initial assets on the name of the founders (organisation/organisations and/or individual/individuals).

  2. Any company or individual can invest currency into any company with the sum of that investment being added to the investment account. The company is free to do anything with the said currency.

  3. All profits after taxes of any company must be paid out as divi

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r/ancientrome•

Pila

As far as I understand, the state-provided outfit of hastati, principes and, later, legionaries included 2 pila. A lot of online sources say that these were 2 different kinds of pila: one light pilum for the first longer throw and one heavy one for the second shorter throw. Were they really different? How different? What are the sources for this distinction?

Should pilum be viewed as a heavier and advanced counterpart to the lighter and more traditional javelins employed by leves, velites and pretty much everyone else at that time?

Did any melee infantry of other cultures use precursor javelins, specialised heavier versions?

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