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  1. Ancient American Discovery

    Honestly folks, getting Romans to North America is pretty easy. Consider, in 363 AD, Theodosius, a roman general and later emperor chased the picts out of Britannia and completed sailing around Britain. In fact, some of the writings seem to indicate that part of the naval forces landed on...

  2. D-Day: 1943

    The Allies would have to land somewhere the Germans least expected them to land to have any chance.... Hmmm.. where could that be? I know, if they want to pull off a 1943 D-Day they could always land on the Frisian Islands.... :D. That would throw the German high command for a loop. :p

  3. A Shift in Priorities

    wow, I lose contact for 6 months and this thing grows like mad. I finally re-read it though and it is a great TL however..... Please try to keep Canada independent of both the US and the GB. I know some want a greater North America, but those of us who are Canadian cringe at the idea, about as...

  4. Vinland, Ho!

    First off, there is gold in Nova Scotia that could be panned. Secondly, even if its a long haul to Vinland, the stuff that Vinland can export to Europe is incredibly valuable. (Ivory, Falcons, Furs etc.) Thirdly, I think that if you can convince the Greenland colony to migrate when things get...

  5. CH: No Yamato Battleships

    The Yamatos were laid down before WW2. At that point, no one was sure carriers were the wave of the future. Big guns had served for hundreds of years, and the idea carriers would supplant them in a few years would have been anathema to most Admirals. Honestly, I don't know if a case for not...

  6. AHC: Have all FIVE Yamato class battleships built

    Just wondering, but how come when someone asks if such and such happens, which really changes what one side of battle would do, the other side does exactly the same they do in our time line. If the Yamato class BBs were built without Japan attacking the US and as one poster stated, without...

  7. plausible ways of getting Great britian out of WW2?

    You know, if the Western Allies had invaded Norway and Sweden in an attempt to help Finland against the Soviet Union like Churchill had proposed, and through a combination of German, Scandinavian and Soviet troops had their ashes hauled, including a fair amount of naval damage then had a greater...

  8. Nazi Germany decides to use Gas against the Soviets.

    I know that, you know that, heck even Uncle Joe probably knew that. What some dumb commisar on the Volga knows or doesn't know is another kettle of fish. Seriously, I was not so much advocating that the Soviets would do it as to suggest to people to consider all possibilities when considering a...

  9. Nazi Germany decides to use Gas against the Soviets.

    of course, there is always the possibility that the Soviets used gas first to win at Stalingrad, then the Germans using it after Stalingrad would only be seen as retaliation for the perfidious Soviet attacks, not as ratcheting up the already nasty eastern front war another notch.

  10. WI: No rise of the Yawhists in 750 BCE

    everyone would be deploring the antics of the Born Again Fundamentalist Baal worshippers. :o

  11. Indepedent Vinland

    If the Vikings settling the east coast of Ireland get chased away, either by the Irish, or by the English/Normans, that would be an available source of settlers to help colonize Vinland. That seems to be the easiest way of a POD that would have a Vinland settlement surviving. Yes they would...

  12. Indepedent Vinland

    Well, most of my sources are such things as the Vinland Saga, the King's Mirror and other texts by Icelandic and/or Norwegian authors. To answer your questions the most important would have to be... Why did Greenland fail? Greenland failed for a combination of reasons. These are: 1) Excessive...

  13. Indepedent Vinland

    May I suggest you take note of this.... all from our time line... not an alternate. 1) Furs: Case in point... in the 1300s Greenland shipped the following to Europe... reindeer skins, sealskin, walrus hide, and walrus ivory... If European furs where so readily available why haul these back from...

  14. Indepedent Vinland

    I think you are underestimating the prices that were paid in Europe for such items... Maybe furs might be cheaper from Russia, but not all furs available in North America would be available in Russia, especially in this period. A case in point, for example, would be furs of such animals as Polar...

  15. Indepedent Vinland

    I think you are forgetting another source of trade and fresh blood for the Vinland colony.... Europe itself. Vinland would have been able to supply Europe with several luxury items without having to travel too far from Newfoundland. I see them providing Europe with many kinds of furs (either...

  16. how long could fascism last

    depends on what you mean.... do you mean how long can fascism (ie Nazi party) last in Germany? Or do you mean how long can it last in any country. In Germany, the Nazi party would have bankrupted the country with their policies by the mid-40s assuming there was no war... and likely would have...

  17. How do ASB OTL events even happen?

    ASB = in my opinion is the events on the incredibly bottom or top end of the probability curve of events happening. It's not magic and its not aliens.

  18. A Normandy WI

    Of course if Normandy fails.. there will be a little voice in the background shouting... "I told you. Normandy would fail. You should have landed on the Friesian Islands instead!"

  19. AH Challenge: Make cavalry king of the battlefield again after 1300

    Elfwine.... You are so correct, just ask the survivors of the Light Brigade about the effect of good artillery on cavalry is.

  20. Equip Your WWII Army

    no tanks or artillery guns?
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