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  1. WI the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was more successful?

    Yeah, I got the distinct impression that he was severely under-resourced - which is why I suggested that maybe an external, European, power invested some time and effort into bolstering his forces with the hope and expectation of payback further down the line (perhaps to suddenly find themselves...

  2. WI the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was more successful?

    For those unaware, tenuous and terrible introductory material here. Now, given that the rebellion was completely and utterly crushed, there's quite a bit of room for various definitions of "more successful". The PoD I'm going to go with is that France and Great Britain were less inclined to...

  3. Alternate Weapons of War thread...

    I've noticed there's a couple of contributors here that like making realistic space ships (Hapsburg immediately springs to mind). Have you guys heard of Kerbal Space Program? It's a beta-release game intended to model, well, a space program, but it allows you to construct your own space ship...

  4. Alternate Weapons of War thread...

    Woah, wait. What? Fictional aircraft thread? Oh, mannnn. Do you have a link, please?

  5. How long until AH gets the Twilight treatment?

    I think you might need this. Although I'm not too sure. It's hard to tell with the ball-slapping misogyny bouncing around in here.

  6. Alternate Weapons of War thread...

    Holy Merciful Mother. That is bloody gorgeous! I am open-mouthed at the beauty of it. Well done! I'm going to add this in here as well. Has anyone heard of the boardgame Attack Vector: Tactical? I've found *some* artwork for it, but I'm a greedy little snotling and would like to find more...

  7. Soviet-US mission to the moon

    Alright, so I'm cribbing this idea straight from a Cracked article, but it intrigued me enough that I thought about asking the Collective Wisdom of alternatehistory.com what they thought of it. Apparently JFK was this close to convincing Khrushchev that the USSR and the US would benefit from...

  8. Alternate Weapons of War thread...

    Hoe. Lee. Crud. That ... oh, man. I can see it now: "The Red Cross had its origins in WWI, when a field surgeon got utterly sick of the devestation wrought by war and decided the only way to resolve the conflict was to hit harder, faster, and with a much, much bigger stick." whose name I...

  9. Alternate Weapons of War thread...

    Heh. "You will take this charity, sinnah! Take it! Take it now!"

  10. Map Thread VII

    I don't mean to be a pain (and I hope I'm not treading on anyone's toes here), but could you possibly point me in the direction of the base map this one comes from?

  11. Lysergacide: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

    Hmm ... you could even play with English routes, given that this is a southern US evolution. To manifest kind of means to travel, right? So, mindcross? Mindwide? Hm ... "It's mindwide, cat, you dig?" ... Does that work?

  12. Lysergacide: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

    Just out of curiosity, how is lysergacide pronounced? Random question, I know, but ... yeah. I'm curious. Is it lie-SIR-gah-side?

  13. WI: No WWI (or WWII)?

    Sweet! I had no idea it would be that easy. As I've said, I'm pretty new to this, and I much prefer the idea of a gentler POD anyway. Going by what you're saying, if Germany and Russia had a turf war (maybe over territory in the Baltic, perhaps?), we'd have a united Europe ... could this...

  14. WI: No WWI (or WWII)?

    Lung ... plague? Oh, man, that sounds nasty. And, well, perfect. Human Lung Plague it is, then!

  15. WI: No WWI (or WWII)?

    Hmmm. Highly contagious and airborne it is, then. That's quite a convincing argument. I guess I just don't want the US to be the solitary world power (we've got that already, after all).

  16. WI: No WWI (or WWII)?

    Water-borne would make for a more widespread catchment, wouldn't it? Also, would the United States be able to exercise their industrial power as much without cheap immigrant labour to back it up? As for an Islam-wank TL, I always got the impression that the Ottoman Empire was on its last legs...

  17. WI: No WWI (or WWII)?

    This is my first time trying this, so I hope I'm doing this right. I realise WWI / WWII are post-1900 events, but the way they came about, the POD would need to be well before 1900. What I'm thinking is, for the wars to never happen, the imperial age would somehow need to be foreshortened...

  18. A more Polytheistic World

    Erm, just a minor nitpick, but Hinduism is actually monotheistic. No, really. Hear me out: The way the logic works, the Hindu god is everything: all time, all space, all thought, all matter, all energy - you get the idea. Humans are incapable of comprehending omnipotence, so just to be nice...

  19. Civ4 BTS: The Road to War

    I do love a good Civ Conquest story. Since the motion for witty commentary has already been seconded, I'd like to cast my vote as "aye!" I'm pretty sure that means the motion has carried.

  20. I need an alternate word for "Crusade".

    How about excoriatus? ex·co·ri·ate [ik-skawr-ee-eyt, -skohr-] –verb (used with object), -at·ed, -at·ing. 1. to denounce or berate severely; flay verbally: He was excoriated for his mistakes. 2. to strip off or remove the skin from: Her palms were excoriated by the hard labor of...
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