Recent content by kuroda

I'd love to -- especially with folks coming from an AH interest -- but I'm just not online enough, or in big enough chunks of time, to do MP stuff :( Turn-based strategy-type games do have some advantages... In the meantime, I need to get back to shepherding Manchu California through the...

YES! I also missed this in its previous period(s) of activity, but would be delighted if you pick it back up!

I don't have anything of my own to contribute, but this topic is woefully incomplete without reference to the Republic of Novegrad and the beautifully developed and documented modern Novegradian language.

I think Metalinvader 665 sums it up best. Perhaps the most acceptable POD would be an early end to the Zemane Mesafint era through, perhaps, someone flickered on the head by strange bats in passing; someone who could both lay claim to the central 'throne' while radically subjugating the regional...

Yes! In case that any attentive moderator reads this thread, I should be clear: it was a Manchu-language joke. ('Elhe Taifin' = the 'Qianlong' emperor, who croaked well before [??] this thread's POD.) There's not many of us, even here, who get to throw such jokes around. Obviously, I'm excited...

Subscribed! But if this is being written by Elhe Taifin (rather than, say, Gubci Elgiyengge), shouldn't this go in the "Future Histories" sub-forum? ;)

I can definitely see it being possible, even (or especially?) post-Yuan. But what I can't see is a good motivation for it.

What WhatisAUserName said. Compared to any of its competitor movements/schools/ideologies, it's much more of a full-frontal assault not just on existing political structures (and interests), but social structures in general. And I don't think there's much evidence that the environment was primed...

Oh, she won't be after her bracing regimen of Vitamin M supplements! ;)

You spread yourself very thin, but very richly. I'll miss you. Green Antarctica, in particular. A lot of people besides myself have suddenly stopped spitting and vomiting into handy receptacles and started weeping into them instead. But perhaps I get why you're going with this. I feel like...

I'm not a native speaker of Russian, and not even a fluent foreign-learner-of-Russian. But I have some fairly long (if now also long-decayed) practical reading knowledge of it, and spoke it as a little kid. If no one better qualified is interested, I'd be glad to chip in on Russian...

I'm thinking that in this TL punk is going to be turned up to 11, and will be breaking out any day now. (If you'll pardon the impure and inappropriate stadium-rock reference.) I'm really, really enjoying this and looking forward to finding out what happens.

Just a quick note on natural resources: petroleum exploitation in northern Sakhalin was ongoing from the early 1920s. Japan occupied the upper part of the island from 1920-25 and retained oil drilling concessions up through 1944 IIRC. Seizing direct control of N. Sakhalin might make a kind of...

I don't know much about the situation in the Andes, but from what I've read, in Mesoamerica the (military) technological edge of the Spanish seems to have been not in blades or firearms, but in their armor. (No, I don't have citations at hand -- I'm sneaking in to AHL on my coffee break at...

I remember KAL 007 very vividly too, though from another (sphincter-clenchingly!!!) part of the globe and from yet another part of the ideosphere. I haven't searched for one, but I haven't seen one: an ATL based on that specific 'incident' -- which seems very very odd to me, once that you bring...