New Reality Seeds

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

Mmm. As I understand it, the fear (in the establishment) at the time was that a professional, meritocratic army might notice that they had the firepower and the people running the country didn't. (Cromwell was only 150 or so years in the past. Plenty recent enough to still invoke as a warning.) So they recruited the army from the people already running the country instead, thereby obviating the problem.

Now, plenty of professional armies don't launch coups twice a week, but some dark prophecies end up being self-fulfilling; if people seem to expect it of them... Your western Europe suddenly becomes less stable. On the other hand, Wellington would be straining every sinew to prevent this outcome, and it's rarely wise to bet against Wellington's influence on the British Army.

Wellington makes an epic Anti-Hero or Anti-Villain. Magnificent call Phil Masters.

Britain, which historically was the most stable major nation in Western Europe during the 19th century, would be the source of any organized counter force.