Recent content by Dante

That's terrible, my deepest condolences.

The Hapsburgs and the Valois turning Italy into a battleground wasn't enough for the Italian city-states to unite.

Canada in our timeline had their own military units for their defense, and to go abroad to fight for Britain, namely the Second Boer War. The Permanent Active Militia, which was essentially the standing army, and the Non-Permanent Active Militia. I'd imagine the Commonwealth has a similar set up.

I believe the prevailing theory is lack of large domesticated animals led to over hunting of game animals, as well as over harvesting of forests led to a wood shortage, on top of making changes in the natural landscape (more farmland to feed more people, diverting water ways, etc.) led to...

That seems out of the scope of what this TL is trying to do.

I'd be interested to hear more about the native states in the UAR, also Europe would be interesting.

Depending on the monarchy in question I think Americans would be alright with a constitutional monarch with no real power. Say, for instance, the United Kingdom decides to enter the Union for whatever reason. They are probably going to enter as four states: England, Wales, Northern Ireland and...

My dad is a Kentucky Colonel, apparently the Governor of Kentucky at the time my dad was doing business with the state government tossed them around like candy. Interesting story: When you become a Kentucky Colonel they give you an official card saying as such. My dad and mom were on vacation...

I'm interested to see how these fleeing Ottomans do in FRA and the CSA, I assume it's mostly Muslim Turks? I wonder how Americans deal with a large influx of "Mohammedans" in their countries, something that didn't really happen in our timeline until much later.

The interesting thing about gunpowder is that the ingredients for it are pretty readily available and it's east to make, it's a mixture of charcoal, sulfur and saltpeter. All these ingredients are available in the new world and easily exploitable. The problem is creating a culture that has the...

Maybe you can explain this as a combination of bad leadership and worse luck? Maybe the British just totally drop the ball in India.

I love the idea of the British winning in North America, while losing in Europe.

That would work, is there an alliance system in place?

Why is intermarriage so looked down on? It's kind of strange that the Norse would accept to be admitted to the Wampanoag as second class citizens? The Norse are walking a very thin line, if they don't find a way in ingratiate more tightly into the Wampanoag they are going to be in real trouble.

It's going to be a giant mess of a war. There's going to be a front of Belgian and British troops fighting the French (Belgium and Britain had rather small armies in OTL and France had conscription is that different in TTL?) The Front in Italy will be interesting, I think Lombardy and...