Recent content by Colin Francis

Aw guys, it's not that important. I only drop in here because I like Alt Hist fiction as well as real history. I'm no Great Historian like my mate NFR above. :p Not looking for arguments but I don't like smart mouths I gotta admit. It just seems that some of you fellas take these things a...

You can just carry on talking to yourself mate. We're all commenting on a work of fiction here, not presenting learned treatises. I strongly suggest you get a life.

Yeh, I know...look I did say that China was a special case insofar as it was only ever part occupied. I agree on the Japanese thoughts concerning their attacks on the Western colonial possessions too. I'm not trying to insult the peoples of East Asia here, just stating that the Japanese did...

Hmmmm well I didn't actually say "well, my facts are wrong, but my theory is correct", by all means you can make things up as you proceed.....just don't ascribe them to me....OK sport? What I actually said was that I was happy to concede that my statement that there was not much resistance was...

Re resistance in the Japanese occupied Asian lands, I'm happy to revisit and revise my statements on the level of that resistance. The basic thesis remains however....the relatively tiny Japanese occupation armies holding vast territoritories with relatively small difficulty. It is difficult...

China I think was a special case, primarily because most of it was never beaten or occupied...a bit like the USSR. Even then I don't recall any resistance of great note in places like Hong Kong and the other great coastal cities. You should really look at the rest of the Co-Prosperity...

Just a thought on resistance. The partisan movements in WW2 were all encouraged by the fact that there were still some big players in the war on the side of the occupied countries...eg the USA, UK and the USSR....all giving encouragement as well as physical aid. Even then, some countries like...

I really can't see where he made any bad errors up until the final showdown at the Field of Cloth of Gold, given the situation. His legacy is a realm almost unconquerable by its neighbours...nice decentralised success story with a standing army no-one else could match. He should never have...

But we know pretty well exactly what the main terms were going to be, as another poster has listed them above. 1. Recognition of Germany's domination of continental Europe. 2. Handing back a few places like South West Africa and Tanganyika. I think that the UK would have had to adopt the...

I found Rice and Salt utterly implausible, even allowing for the reincarnated characters. There was still a technical civilisation and in many ways nothing much changed from OTL apart from the characters' ethnic mix. With a 99% kill rate in Western Europe in the 14th century I just cannot...

We'll never know, thank christ. Sorry about the FROBS. :o ;)

An obvious result is the suppression of islamic fundamentalism and emphasis on secularism in the USSR 'stan republics. Mebbe the USSR does not fall...mebbe Osama Ben Laden gets killed? A mixture of good and bad. It is even possible that the Iranian Islamic Republic would have become...

Re the "evilness factor" of the former USSR. It isn't meant to be that. If I was the NCA of the former USSR, I would follow the following principles, which are not evil.... ...prioritise your weapons delivery amongst the targets to be serviced...some are very time-urgent, and simply must be...

I tend to agree with the above post, with reservations. A full exchange in the year 1985 would have resulted in up to 50,000 warheads being expended, including tactical and strategic weapons. Included there are about 10,000 strategic bombs with a total yield of perhaps 10,000-20,000 MT, the UK...

Firstly, we never had a no-nuke policy re the USN. That was New Zealand. Australia has and does host many nuclear-capable vessels. Fremantle was and is a major SSN, SSBN and CBG base for the USN. It would have been a target. Darwin also was host to B52 aircraft and the USN..also to be hit...