Alamo Samurai

[Count Dearborn]

At first I thought that this timeline was inspired by the movie, The Master Gunfighter.

[drrockso20]

true it can be strange and whatnot but whatever

[snerfuplz]

I remember reading this TL almost 3 years ago. I got through the post about him dispatching 150 soldiers than I hit the back button. Please 150 soldiers with a gun? These are just samurai we are talking about, they are not uber good fighters here.

[drrockso20]

I agree that is a silly part and is an overinflated number by at least a 100 but remember that it's night old fashioned musket's and early rifles he's a highly skilled and unique combatant the troops probably weren't very well trained with proper bayonet use in close quarters combat and they probably got all confused and panicked because of a sudden attack like that

[Doraemon]

And considering that Japan had closed itself from the West until the 1860's and this timeline somehow has 600 immigrants from Japan in the 1830's

[drrockso20]

I think one of the PODs is that japan isn't so isolationist this time around

[Hendryk]

First things first: how did a Japanese aristocrat end up in Texas at a time when the Tokugawa kept the country closed to the outside world? And how did his extended family manage to join him there?

Really, if there is no plausible answer to that question, then the lack of realism of all that follows is a moot point.

[drrockso20]

how many times must I say it it probably wasn't meant to be anywhere near realistic

[Ofaloaf]

Originally Posted by drrockso20

how many times must I say it it probably wasn't meant to be anywhere near realistic

We get our kicks out of raging over this sort of thing. It's nothing personal.

[rcduggan]

Originally Posted by drrockso20

I agree that is a silly part and is an overinflated number by at least a 100 but remember that it's night old fashioned musket's and early rifles he's a highly skilled and unique combatant the troops probably weren't very well trained with proper bayonet use in close quarters combat and they probably got all confused and panicked because of a sudden attack like that

Except most of the Mexicans were veterans, and using the final attack as evidence they were very skilled at fighting with bayonets.

[Keith Robertsson]

There are many and various good reasons why San Francisco eclipsed Monterey as the center of Alta California del Norte. The primary reason is San Francisco Bay is a better hrbor than Monterey. A secondary one is the interior can be reached via riverine traffic (ferries and other watercraft). Monterey is strictly "landlocked".

[jmberry]

This timeline is typical of the ones that were found on OTL.com. The vast majority of them, if posted here, would have been posted on the ASB subforum, and even there they would have been picked apart. Several timelines, in fact, often had the Rapture or a nuclear war occur in 1997, regardless of whether it had any relevance to the timeline in question.
I remember one timeline had Lee capture Washington by leaving a decoy force at Gettysburg. If that was implausible enough, this action convinced the Border States to secede - and form their own country! The United Confederation of Kentucky (when an English speaking country chooses a name that can be acronymed as "Uck" you know the timeline has left all bounds of reality) then proceded to conquer the US.
That said, I have seen one excellent timeline from that site (though not on that site). This is "By a Fluke of the Gods:Cox defeats Harding" and can currently be found on the forum on Dave Leip's site.