Recent content by Ranchoth

I figured making a thread for these might be pushing it, but... Inspired by the mostly retired Vlad Tepes Award.... And the comparatively lesser known Drunk Fleetlord Atvar Award... I've been working on my own collection of arguably useful (or at least amusing) Alternate History awards...

You know, a bog-standard Photon Torpedo would have a maximum yield of about 64 Megatons. Quantum Torpedoes and high-yield Photons are even higher... Even without including non-expendable or exotic weapons, that's quite a bit more than the punch-to-weight ratio of the torpedo bombers than sank...

Above: A ragged band of guerillas—their ranks including impressed women and children—brazenly parade a motley panopoly of captured and stolen Axis small arms, somewhere on the Africa Orientale Italiana frontier, circa 1949. Above: Groß-Simbabwewerke Chemiefabrik, 1960. Covering an area of...

When you think about it, the only things that would have prevented a lot of people's careers ending in disgrace in the aftermath of 1961's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea would be that they're dead already, or that many of the people who could replace them are dead already. 😱

Above: Hibaro-zoku Giyūtai—Indigenous Special Volunteers, South America, 1960. Often deploring the dreadful waste of humans in post-war colonial Co-Prosperity Civilization building, Japan takes pride in providing a balanced place for subject peoples even within military and security forces...

Indeed—The Bomb: South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme is an excellent source on the history of the program, both in it's technical and political aspects (including planned nuclear strategies), as is Revisiting South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program. Fascinating reads for any enthusiast on...

Not sustainable fishery management, one presumes.

Somewhere, noted pulp scifi/fantasy author Adolf Hitler (1889-1953) is smilin' down from heaven.

Those are rubber, for the record. Unlike the starved, and/or beheaded Africans, a few posts up. 'Pretty sure those are real.

English troopers of the SS division Black Prince—units raised in the British Islands (and indeed, recruits from throughout the former Empire!) have repeatedly distinguished themselves in combat in service of the Reich, earning a rightful reputation as superb Bandenbekämpfung and...

Imperial Special Forces spearheading the counter-offensive against the fiendish hordes of British "Janissary" troops, invading through a mysterious extra-dimensional rift from a parallel nightmare world where the Sun Never Set on the British Empire...in this scene from the blockbuster 1988...

A classic (and well-loved) copy of Der Adler, with an imposing cover of ferry rocket Freude awaiting launch on the Kismaayo Raketenstartplatz, East Africa, to shuttle the final run of crewmen and provisions for the Olympia I Mars mission.

'Meant to get to this one while on vacation, but things got a bit busier than I expected. But... Legióm Cuāuhtlio soldier in parade dress. Despite popular (and heavily romanticized) impressions, much of the Aztec military kit has largely been scarcely distinguishable from that of it's...

Already done. Or, courtesy of Bruce McCall and Maj. Howdy Bixby,

'Nother extremely fanciful/silly one... Zululand Sea Corps (kwaZuluolwandle) exchange officers and sundry journalists onboard IJN Shikishima just prior to Battle of Tsushima, 1905.