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    A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    Swear this German collapse is more total and faster than some of the hilarious ones I've seen in HoI4.
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    A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    It’d be nice if they did become a full part of the UK.
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    AHC: Have American and British English be mutually unintelligible

    Stronger surviving Northumbria is my bag baby. You’d need to cut down ties and wealth flowing to Kent and the South from the continent though and have it survive the Vikings
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    AHC: Have American and British English be mutually unintelligible

    Newcastle pronunciation becomes the mark of high culture and the aristocracy.
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    A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    This one is a Christmas miracle
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    A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    The thing about these regimes is they always look rock solid... until they suddenly collapse. I can very much see something give way with a much larger pool of young men alive and well combined with a lack of Great Patriotic War propaganda enforcing loyalty to the motherland providing the...
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    A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    The post war East End is going to be a very different place without all those bomb sites and excuses for construction. It might even make a lot more cohesive working class Vs the planners movement if there's fewer damaged sound around to use as a basis for clearance.
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    A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    I don't think so but whats different in the UK tends to be the ability of trains to fit in tunnels and navigate stretches of the line with large loads. No double deckers or overly large tanks.
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    A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    >Somehow the Germans still manage to occupy and hold Rome.
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    A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    Churchill could walk to Berlin by himself at this rate.
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    Protect and Survive: A Timeline

    If anyone is still in touch with the author I'd love them to persuade him up publish this. Either self published for an ebook or with Sealion Press (for that sweet hard copy version)
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    Ancient weapon choices: why swords?

    You hide behind a big shield, the sword stabs from behind it, you repeat until the enemy is dead. Nice and simple. Spears are good as well, the Greek pike was great until it became detached from its combined arms approach an increasingly unwieldy in size.
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    Underlying reasons for difference in historical developments of Japan and England?

    Japan is further away from China than England from Europe and China was happy beating the shit out of the rest of SE Asia. They are also different countries and cultures on opposite sides of the world. That might explain the differences.
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    A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    Hitler's bodyguard gets out of the Soviet gulag?
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