Victoria 2 is on sale right now and I wanted to pick it up.
Should I buy it with or without dlc? (The dlc are also on sale)
Should I buy it with or without dlc? (The dlc are also on sale)
That said, you might want to wait for the release of Victoria 3 (which should be before the end of the year) first, as Victoria 2 is a pretty old game.
Really?
What did you modificate? If I may be so bold as to inquire
Pretty much correct:Supposedly, the name "tank" comes from a government misdirection attempt. In an effort to hide the development and early production of the new machines from enemy spies, it's been said that they were referred to as "tanks", as in "storage tanks", which the early hull designs somewhat resembled, rather than as "armored tractors" or some other appropriate term. The intentionally misleading name stuck. I can't vouch for the accuracy of the claim.
On 24 December 1915, a meeting took place of the Inter-Departmental Conference (including representatives of the Director of Naval Construction's Committee, the Admiralty, the Ministry of Munitions, and the War Office). Its purpose was to discuss the progress of the plans for what were described as "Caterpillar Machine Gun Destroyers or Land Cruisers." In his autobiography, Albert Gerald Stern (Secretary to the Landship Committee, later head of the Mechanical Warfare Supply Department) says that at that meeting "Mr. (Thomas J.) Macnamara (M.P., and Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty) then suggested, for secrecy's sake, to change the title of the Landship Committee. Mr. d'Eyncourt agreed that it was very desirable to retain secrecy by all means, and proposed to refer to the vessel as a "Water Carrier". In Government offices, committees and departments are always known by their initials. For this reason I, as Secretary, considered the proposed title totally unsuitable.[a] In our search for a synonymous term, we changed the word "Water Carrier" to "Tank," and became the "Tank Supply" or "T.S." Committee. That is how these weapons came to be called Tanks," and incorrectly added, "and the name has now been adopted by all countries in the world."[4]
The book cited is from 1919. The term "Panzer" was only established in the 1930sYes, incorrectly, since there are a few exceptions, such as Germany (panzer)
On that regard I could only find German sources:I wonder, if the Land Cruiser name had been used, would that eventually have been sub-divided, as they developed into light, medium and heavy models, into Land Destroyers, Land Cruisers, and Land Battleships?
-> The heavy tanks and not realized tank projects in the pioneering phase of tank construction were sometimes called "land cruiser" or "land battleships".
"Nothing could stop a land battleship of that size and power" (talking about the tank "Maus" in the conception phase)»Nichts könnte ein Land-Schlachtschiff dieser Größe und Kraft aufhalten.«