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Tyranny of Steel

Julian Weber is an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a graduate of Westpoint Military Academy with a degree in civil engineering. As U.S. involvement in Afghanistan comes to an end, Lt. Julian Weber finds himself involved in a terrorist attack by the Taliban, which claims his life. However, he quickly finds out that death is not always final as he is reincarnated into the body of a Baron's son and heir in an alternate Earth set in Late-Medieval Europe. In an era of political turmoil and civil strife, the Baron's young son is named Regent of the Barony of Kufstein and forced to contend with feudal powers. Will he be able to institute reforms leading his Barony into the age of industry? Or will he succumb to the pressure of his feudal overlords and a corrupt church that seek dominion overall?

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Papal Woes II

The Pope sat in his Chair with a hopeless expression. Not only did the peasant's Crusade to Iberia fail miserably, but due to the massive supply of forces sent to the region, the Catholic world was undergoing an economic crisis and a massive famine. Roughly half a million peasants from across Europe lie dead in Iberia, their corpses rotting under the hot sun. 

Because of this, there were substantially fewer people to work the fields. The Catholic Kingdoms were severely lacking in agricultural technology compared to the Kingdom of Austria. Since practically all work had to be done by hand; the overwhelming majority of the population in the Catholic World were forced to work on farms.

Now that half a million men lie dead in a foreign country, the populations of France, Hungary, Poland-Lithuania, England, and the German States were depleted. This had led to a massive food shortage that could not easily be overcome.