>Rainy little island chain filled with nothing but coal, misery, and an astonishingly inbred people.>Quietly gets the shit kicked out of them for a millennium fighting petty civil wars and being invaded by everyone for laughs.>Island undergoes sudden zenkai boost powerup in the 16th century and decides to go all in on building boats and using them to create a trading empire centered around selling people drugs.>Intervenes in European wars to maintain autistic balance of power where they're the only ones allowed to have a lot of boats.>If their armies get crushed they just sit on their island and pay your other enemies to fuck with you.>Successfully checks the advance of multiple continental powerhouses and builds the worlds largest empire by beating up savages fighting back with bows and spears.And this board has the nerve to pretend that "Perfidious Albion" is just Kraut cope. The British Empire existed to stop interesting history from happening so they could continue messing around with balance sheets like a bunch of autists.
>>18666938>people who travelled and traded all over Europe with numerous waves of immigrants >astonishingly inbredSAAAARRR!!!!
>>18666942>We're not inbred! We've mixed our DNA with cows, sheep, pigs, and we're 1% French too!Way to go Nigel.
>>18666945Bloody benchod bastard!!! Blody bastard bitch!!!
>>18666938>astonishingly inbred people>shit kicked out of them for a millennium fighting petty civil wars and being invaded by everyone for laughs.Brown hands typed this post. And you can’t have it both ways. Truth is, Britain is one of the most dynamic areas in northern Europe ancestrally and genetically speaking. A minimum of 6 historic populations contributed to the current makeup of Scotland alone, and I’d argue it’s closer to a dozen.
>>18666938dergoes sudden zenkai boost powerup in the 16th centuryyou mean NapoleonBritish Isles only became a powerhouse because they were the only ones left with the resource and expertise to create the first steam EnginesEveryone else had to contend with the destruction and Brits used their massive headstart to prevent everyone else from becoming a threatThat, and that the Spanish Armada was ravaged by God
>>18666938>*tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap*
>>18666938There is genuinely nothing uniquely perfidious about Britain. Every European Great Power does shit like this. Britain just happens to have a catchphrase about it.
Pirates with geographic advantage. They still fucked it up.
>>18666938>undergoes sudden zenkai boost powerup in the 16th centuryAuthentic Christianity will do that. Sadly, they fell again into heresy and lost the mandate of heaven.
>>18666938They saved the world a couple of times. Probably 67 times
