Board Thread:Misc./@comment-14745711-20170517034952/@comment-14745711-20170517083756

Thanks for your advice. On the whole, WW1 vs 1870 thing, I should clarify that its not a 1:1 port across. Much of the military structure is unique to the setting such as the creation of Northern and Southern commands, and the fact that the 66th Hussar Regiment (that's their version of the Scouts) reports directly to Kaiser. Also, the technology is not actually at the level of real Germany in 1914, as industrial development has been heavily hampered by a lack of easily accessable fossil fuels.

I am aiming for a complicated dynamic as regards racism and sexism, as nearly all characters are going to be what you might call "passivly sexist", in that they believe women should in almost all cases fulfill traditional gender roles. The racism is a very deep rooted part of Prussian society, to the point that their class system tends to go: Prussians, other Germans, other Aryans, most everybody else, and with a few select groups dumped at the bottom (Jews, Black Africans etc).

Thanks for your points though, I'll try to keep them in mind as I go. I don't have too much of a long term plot fixed yet so I'm hoping to pull a few pointers before my ideas cement too much. I especially want to try and make the plot upredictable, to the point where I'm thinking I'll do away with Titan Shifters altogether.

Oh yeah, and I was tempted to hand out liberal doses of facial hair, but restrained myself when it came to the core cast, as I want people to be able to recognise them; I'm not the greatest artist ever so hair styles are one of the main ways you can tell who's who.