Recent content by Michael B

If you are sending large numbers of people by sea then it is going to be dangerous and expensive. Every ship has got to go via Cape Horn twice, unless you want to make every voyage a one way trip. The HBC could tell American colonists to pound sand, but that does not mean that local factors...

RE a larger Russian Alaska. Alaska was of marginal value to Russia. It was just too far away from Moscow. You have to travel all the way across Russia before you are even close to it. Re British Seattle. Same problem as the Americans had. The only sensible way to get there is by wagon train...

And the Atlantis was intercepted because the OKM ordered it to rendezvous with a U boat. The British intercepted the message and decyphered it so was able to send a cruiser to the area On the other hand if you are intercepted by a cruiser you will be outgunned. So we now have three missions...

I don't seem to find any references to the He52 or He53 so could you please post a link to a description.

Almost any contemporarary plane would be better than a Roc. However, if the hybrids are still around in 1941 their planes are going to have to take on Martlet Mk IIs.

The tank was a no brainer. Where the British stole a march on everyone else apart from Burstyn in 1911 de Mole in 1912 was to build one that could easily cross trenches. The latter two gentlemen incorporated trench crossing/climbing into their designs. However neither was taken up.

Actually it was (is?) worse than that. Saudis were financing Al Qaeda with proceeds from oil sales to the USA. The USA was fighting Al Qaeda with US troops paid for by US tax payers. What country in its right mind finances both sides of a war? And too much money for grifters and sycophants of...

If you read Appendix 3 you will see that the entire North American continent is claimed by the British Empire. No states, presidents, etc.

On OTL the Finns had a regent for the Grand Duke of Finalnd between the abdication of Nicholas II and a new constitution. The French could do the same here with the tweak that they would not say whether the Regent was for the Orleanists or the Bonapartists. Darlan could also follow the...

1) We have the the rise AfD right now. I would not want to bet against them leading a colaition. 2) Soon after the war, yes. In the sixties, a bit harder to consider invading a country to depose its governement. In the ninities, unlikely. And it does not have to be a member of the Bonapart...

The danger of a republic is that it gets hijacked by the Bonapartists and becomes an Empire again. No constitution will prevent that. Look what the Freedom Party did in the CSA.

I would start with the destruction of every Christian kingdom south of the Pyrenees. It would a lot harder for the Christians to launch a Reconquista if they have only a Mediterranean coastal strip plus some mountain passes from which to launch it. That means subduing Asturias. Not easy and the...

The main advantage of Iberia is that Mediterranean coast of the Iberia did fall not to Italy (Rome) or Carthage until after the 1st Punic War. There is also the advantage that it can mimic them without having to develop new technology such as the heavier plough that France and Germany really...

Illyria is a better option than Dacia because it is less likely to be attacked by steppe nomads. The catch is that it is going to be overrun by the Romans.

If it was sucessful given it would be a torpedo attack that and not bombs would be seen to be the way to go attacks by aircraft on shipping.. If it was a diasaster it could set back carrier warfare. I do not think that it would influence air defences any more or less than the German airships...