Recent content by Alonicus

The Battle of Somosierra - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Somosierra - think of it as the Charge of the Light Brigade, but the ASB's swooped in and made it work. 125 light horse on one side, 9000 troops on the other including three well emplaced batteries of artillery in good defensive...

Sorry.... I thought I knew about this period (heck, I grew up during the cold war !), but I think my writing style is very wrong for this TL. I write more by way of developing a storyline, but I have realised that this is a forum where 100% detailed technical knowledge is required, which I...

Moscow was primarily symbolic, St Petersburg was the centrepoint for the administration. Why would disrupting the administration of Russia be considered barren ? Combined with a decisive field victory (likely unless the Russians decide to abandon St Petersburg as they did Moscow), it's far...

Elizabeth Carr sat rock still in her chair, the piece of paper hanging from her hand. How had it all gone so wrong, she wondered to herself ? First the glimmer of hope over Iceland cruelly dashed when it turned out to be nothing but propaganda and fog of war, and now.... this. There was no...

I must admit I simplified things, partly for dramatic effect and to avoid writing pages and pages, but also because I worked based on a few key assumptions. I reckon the Russians wouldn't have been able to get a large force to Iceland at this stage, so the SBS teams (with lots of sympathy from...

We should probably assign a date (and maybe even time of day) to the maps. Would the Soviets have made significant advances in N Germany ? If I recall right, IOTL that was where it was expected that their major axis of advance would be. I might see if I can play with the maps a bit tomorrow...

((OOC - you can have the Invincible. Now for why she was where she was :D)) Admiral Dandridge had to wipe tears from his eyes when he heard of the Invincible's fate. But he felt an anger rising within him, an anger that said he had to make the sacrifice of the sister ship to the one he rode...

That would make it a much easier thread to work with ! The original idea certainly left it very open to us how the campaign would go. I must admit, I really like the idea of a Battle of Gatchina, though :D In terms of Bonapartes for Russia, the ideal choice would be Louis, because I think...

*grins* I'm working really hard to think up imaginative ways NATO could hit back without using nuclear or bio weapons. And (I admit) I like playing with weapon-type toys, even if it is purely in literary form ;)

The average serf had no great loyalty to Russia or the Czar. Their prime loyalties were to their owners, their families, and their stomachs. Most of them wouldn't have understood emancipation, whether it came from the Russians or the French. But there is one big different thing they would...

20th June, Over Northern Bavaria. "One-six red, in position to launch ALARM missiles," Carr called over his radio. "Roger one-six, give us all the cover you can. Eagle Heavy out," came back the response from the Hercules high above. This was a set-piece; all five planes remaining from 16...

I think it's possibly an over-simplification to just say "Napoleon was a megalomaniac" and use it to justify stupidity. Everything he did was intelligently calculated, even if it didn't turn out as expected. What needs to be considered is the background. France was a revolutionary state...

Just a thought..... It's interesting that in writing this from the point of view of our various heroes (or anti-heroes, lol), we're building in the fog of war nicely. No-one really knows what's going on, or how effective their strikes have been. For all the Russians know, the Scottish...

"This is Tomas Christon, continuing my series of special reports on the crisis engulfing Europe and the world. Today, I'm pleased to have British Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe in the studio. Welcome to the programme, Mr Foreign Secretary." "Thank you Tomas; feel free to call me Geoffrey."...

Without the Khazars converting to Judaism, there's have been no significant population of Eastern European Jews. That means no Russian pogroms, no Warsaw Ghetto, and probably no WWII death camps. In fact, without a Jewish population to spur anti-Semetism, it's very unlikely Hitler would have...