Recent content by Awilla the Hun

It's a bit late in the period, but spare a thought for Venice? One of the mightiest trading hubs of the contemporary Mediterranean, highly defensible, and utterly beautiful.

As strange as it may sound, Oswald Mosley as champion fencer.

It's like how in CoD Modern Warfare II the Russians somehow fly into the US on helos without ever mentioning the navy. Then as now, populist techno thriller writers didn't know their stuff. Which is fine, because if they did they'd have a really bored audience.

Some of this thread sounds like the contemporary 'invasion fiction' people actually wrote in the early 20th century. The alliances there were no less ludicrous.

Somehow facilitate a return to the 'war of movement' before tanks are developed. That's the simple answer.

I'd argue that a British fallout would either be faux Edwardian (perceived as not as 'Dickensian' as the Victorian age, generally seen as the sun-drenched 'last gasp' of civilization before the lights went out in WWI; it even includes an arms race and invasion scares), or Agatha Christie time...

Having read this article in the Guardian-how were race relations in the Soviet Union? This appears to paint a very positive picture...

Impausibility levels of this timeline: intensifying. Not leas that the USA is recognizing (and implicitly backing) a state which wants to newly conquer an Empire larger than that of Alexander the Great.

Orwell later in his career was increasingly suffering from ill health and paranoia. If he lives into the '80s, then he is unlikely to be suffering from these problems until the very end.

He just wouldn't want to do it by then, that's the problem.

To judge from what happened to the V-1s and V-2s, it gets fed dodgy targetting information by allied intel and shells empty countryside.

Interesting, but I confess to being somewhat sceptical about how quickly these advances can be sustained with pre WWI logistics. I know that OTL's Eastern Front was pretty fast moving (for WWI), but getting to more or less the same place as OTL seems somewhat implausible. There are no tanks, no...

A Distant Plain's a pretty good one for grand strategy in the Afghan War: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/127518/distant-plain

This was fascinating, the attention to detail was incredible. Thank you for writing it.

I think that was more sentimental attachment; weren't they were the German Admiral's old squadron.