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The reasoning for the military was as a stepping stone out of poverty, which was widespread and there wasn't the social safety net there is today. The entire 'second sons join the military' idea. His entire thing with the military was to escape combat, and it back fires
It isn't (unjustified) plot armour, he's just 'that much more powerful', part of the Being X Package for Plot. Then once given the Type 95, which is yet another step up in power, yes, he can't be compared to mooks. However, that same favour perk gets given to his foes as Being X gets petulant the repenting game isn't going the way he wants.
As for sadism...not really. More a mental disorder where empathy is pretty much non-existant, and people are just resources. Add to that being vengeful... Tanya is a jerk, just not a sadistic jerk. Add in the combat drugs and well...
Being X is just one in a group, but anime doesn't make that clear. He is however, also a jerk.
The 'loli MC' though is pure fanbait. Even if there is a 'reason' (enlist early to get out of poverty, and hopefully be ranked and retired before WW2..except.. history is different so..oops? Welcome to the Western Front), it's still obvious. Perhaps he felt a male adult jackass of an MC wouldn't be as liked as a loli jackass?
Time travel knowledge wouldn't help him here. It's alternate history world, so lottery numbers won't help, knowing how a Pentium is made wouldn't help with magitech world, etc. He'd need credibility for a lot of inventions, capital and tools, things he lacks. There really isn't much his future knowledge brings that would be of use to him. His only advantage (beyond hax magic core crap, and 'if i feign faith, i get a power up, at the price of control and memories') is the world is at a paradigm shift in warfare, and he can (for now) advantage future battle tactics. That advantage wouldn't last long as everyone goes unconventional.
As for random guy being picked, well..one could say this is 'The Book of Job..turned wrong' .
well, its not only MC. In episode 07 their whole squad take fire from a guy with automatic rifle yet not even one of them suffer any damage.
i think show could be good and engaging if only author put some work into world and basis for MC decissions. I mean, author cant be bothered to even make proper names for countries. Empire dont have a name at all, even in wiki its just "Empire".
That said, I agree: enemy get shot past their shields, and limbs explode. Tanya's get shot and they... drift down gently and are recoverable? Wounded sure, but no permenant injury or even scarring. Then again, when she shot down the enemy bombers, those rather drifted down gently into its landing... gentle enough it looked like is should have had survivors.
Designing a computer chip would also be far harder since most chips today are build from robotics, not by the human hand. Robotics that dont exist in the alterd world *yet*. Basicly you would have to redesign a computer from the ground up from the most basic of components in a world where the vaccum tube is state of the art tech.
medieval times you might have a much larger impact. For example as a common person with some basic school knowlege or otherwise in our modern age could reinvent steam power with basic princibles. Or the basics of gun poweder.
Infact simply having an idea in itself would propel a culture leagues ahead in that time. and thats just with basic science.
In Tanyas world, Unless your an expert in the field Tanya wont be able to do anything revolutonary. Due to her profesion in the our moder age she would excelle in human resources. And obviously she also has knowlege of history. So tatctics in an age where gorilla warfare was a very new concept but she knew a great deal of them or at least their existance.
The only real change she could bring is with ideas. Unless she is heard by the right people all she can do is influence and that is exactly what she is doing.
i dont even know what to say
on one hand i admit its hard to actually invent something using your basic knowledge, but on other hand we have assumption, what existence of god and magic have no effect on this world development.
i mean, they fight trench war yet they have bunch of people who can fly
and they invented gun powder yet they have people who can demolish big areas by reciting a prayer.
Tanya could as easily find himself in a world where any kind of progress is considered heresy against god and punished by death.
What does she bring? She knows both Russia and the USA are going to be the executioners, she should be influencing the top brass to have a plan to counter them somehow. She knows the atom bomb is a key project to develop, she knows encryption has to be dealt with better, which needs computing, she may not know how computers are built but she knows what they do and what parts they use so she can give her rough designs to smarter people that only need an eureka moment. She knows cellphones, blue jeans, hollywood and rock, she can steal all of the great trends to put the empire on top culturally. She knows the IMF, UN, and etc organizations can help both keep peace in your power and control the world, she could attempt the empire to be the one that creates them.
She knows her country cant leak scientists, bankers and other powerful people and instead has to win the rush to the top even harder, securing an alliance with the USA would do wonders, reaching the A-bomb would at least secure status quo if not outright win, all this without being an expert on a field, just being somewhat smart and knowledgeable. Which I believe she was on her previous life.
She knows petrol is the major economy driver in the future and can give global hegemony, she would be insisting on an strong alliance with arab states (or, if magical crystals are the best source of energy and deifnitely not petrol, then the top producers of that), offer Russia a safe petrol pipeline deal (backed by the empire's army) in exchange for an alliance. Delay as much as possible while aiming for the A-bomb. In the beginning she was right to have doubts history will play similarly, but after the armistice and republic's fake peace she should expect for sure things will be different, yet the same unless, she does some major meddling.
On the other hand, it is NOT her world. Petrol might actually NOT drive the economy in the future, as who knows what advanced can be made with those magitech things. The atomic bomb might not matter when a single mage can make a thermobaric bomb devestate the battlefield - if that's the power of a quadcore, what happens if they somehow 'network' a 'beowulf cluster of dual cores'? We're all assuming there is oil in arabia..what if there isn't? What if the sands hide rare earths, while the oil is buried under the tulips of the Netherlands? The changes might be more subtle and all encompassing than initially seems.
It's somewhat glaringly not ww2 - no alliances with italy, russia and japan analogues. Yet it's also not exactly ww1 - tech is off, initial impetus for war is wrong, and it's over a decade late. They are using some form of advanced magical RADAR...but that was something not until WW2.
Even past Tanya's lack of social skills, and mindset of people-are-resources, her knowledge isn't really THAT useful, especially without starting capital, time, and willing ears...even assuming she knew things beyond the brief synopsis of 'yeah, iPhone is a thing'.
Of course, that's even assuming Tanya has a single altruistic thought in her head. So far it's not so much "I shall uplift the world", but more 'How can I secure my retirement package best?"
She has already gained some influence/ears that listen with so few years, if she were allowed to live till 40 just imagine how much political power she could get in that time.
there is a very good chance they already knew more about nuclear bombs then your average person does today, and same goes for computers we all know silicon chips allow for greater miniaturization but how do you make a silicon chip?
culture follows trends it does not have intrinsic value and there is no reason to think that trying to start a trend early and out of place would work.
consider flight for example(despite the fact they already have it), da vinci was designing flying machines back in the 1500's to no avail then its not till the late 1800's that people start to have success and then the wright brothers flight in 1903 and in 1912 the British created the royal flying corps.
i think the average person would know enough to design a basic wing but would they know enough to design the control surfaces like the wright brothers?
if not then it shortens the design process to about 20-30 years if so then its still about 10 years. thats only if you can get people to listen to you, when the nuclear bomb was suggested to the US in a letter the scientists involved went to Einstein to have him sign the letter and add credence to it, which is one of the problems i see with the series, a little girl is one of the empires leading military strategists and people are only slightly concerned by it.
i think as a layperson the best you can hope for is to write the letter that rises awareness to a invention or field of study that already exist, you can't just name a invention and expect someone to then know how to build it.
the exception is innovation, if your not trying to invent new tech but instead coming up with new ways to use what you already have then you can be vague.
another thing to consider is the tank, the idea was suggested and designs developed before WW1 but they were rejected completely because no one wanted trench warfare and no one would of agreed to them before they were already locked into trench warfare.
the germans wanted to out manoeuvre the french and take paris and end the war before the entente could fully mobilize and use their manpower advantage aganst them, the entente wanted to use their manpower advantage to out manoeuvre and surround the germans.
you need to convince them that the enemy will keep trying to flank them till there is a continuous line of trenches from the alps to the sea, obviously its a lot easier after the fact.
As you said she's taken very well into account by the leading strategists of her country, the only people she doesnt have any influence on is politicians (and it seems even if she tried to use the generals for this, the generals will avoid at all costs bossing them around) and middlemen (still considered a kid with no political power on her own), but those can be fixed by gettng more quick promotions.
Sorry Translated (mostly ;) )
if you could bring back or memorise and reproduce actural reserch papers or schematics then thats a different matter, you could forgo most of the development but for example if you teach them how to build a tiger tank without teaching them how to make rolled homogeneous armour then they would need to use cast steel which is weaker or develop the armour too.
each piece you leave out they need to develop.
if she could get the mad scientist to help she would be able to get ONE thing invented at a time, maybe after some success she would have more influence but if she tried to do too much they would think she was just a kid who liked science fiction too much.
which is a good example of the problem, we have had science fiction ideas about warp engines and teleporters for decades, some of it for over a century and while i won't deny they have influenced scientific progress we still don't have half the stuff that was predicted.
most of the tech people already knew about they just didn't know how to make it yet and thats what you need to teach them.