TheAuldGrump
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Gez said:I think they would. Germany and Austria had a good start, but in the end, things were looking grim for them. Their progress in the west were stalled by the Trench War, and it was France, not Germany, that developped the first tanks.
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They were so effective that Germany made sure, in the 39-45 war, to have this time the upper technological hand.
To the contrary, one of the big difference between the real world and Eberron is that Eberron did not experience an industrial revolution, magical or not.
Magic has always existed in Eberron. There have been no sudden magical breakthrough comparable to the invention of steam engines. The only magical revolution Khorvaire underwent was the apparition of dragonmarks, and the funky stuff they allowed. It was not a revolution, but a slow evolution, one that shaped the Dragonmarked houses as the powerful financial and economical forces they are. It was not a sudden invention of telephone and electric light -- not a sudden change. Not a revolution.
Wildly off topic - Great picture! Is that from a site on the subject of early tanks?
The Auld Grump, steampunk addict... and includes the Great War in that theme...