[quote=So Boerd]
All for using old stats, but several factors must be touched up on.1. Blockades are too effective.2. The Chinese army is too easily modernized and China is too centralized. 3. Britain's army is overly good. 4. A distinction between home and colonial pops.5. Literacy rate and prestige must matter.
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Duly noted.

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