The french going into a civil war a month before ww1 is like shooting yourself in the leg right as you see a group of men about to mug you in the alleyway
the Italians actually being in the central powers instead of switching sides is basically when you're watching a movie and there is an expected plot twist that everyone sees coming but doesn't actually happened.
dunno how nor why did i end up here but this reminds me so much of bokoen's content (in a good way i mean). If you put subtitles or countryballs or whatever to understand better i'd say this is on the same level as those videos with hundreds of thousands of views lol
I've had bad expirences with the overall field marshal frontlines when in co-op so I tend to still to my individual ones. Even then I'm pretty sure the tactical system we used in this game vaired and changed a fair amount across the session.