Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-97.81.240.58-20130603234626/@comment-24590102-20140403071254

I dunno - there's a number of possibilities.

Titus Mede II may not have been the "brilliant" strategest behind the preceding victories. He may have simply made consistently bad decisions which his generals managed to bail him out of - which would work for him just like they worked for Napoleon. In short, signing the the treaty was the one bad decision his generals couldn't bail him out of.

But the possibillity of ideological subversion of the individual loyalties of officials can never be ruled out when ideology is part of the military strategem. E.g. I have heard that one of the French generals (Huntzinger?) ordered the dismantling of French defenses on the eve of the Nazi invasion.