Recent content by Ditzy Vixen (RossN)

Very recently got into this game after largely being absent from the series since Hearts of Iron II. Surprised by how much I'm loving it! :D I'm considering trying an AAR again on the Paradox forums if I can decide what country I want to try. France, Republican Spain, Yugoslavia or Ireland...

The dynamic between the big three changes completely with Foster being way too young to be a love interest. I also have a hard time seeing Harrison Ford's Han Solo obeying a 14 year old, no matter how capable she is. The lack of romance might not hurt A New Hope too much - there are a few...

While I agree the naval buildup of OTL and antagonising the Brits was an own goal I think an expanded navy was in and of itself a reasonable goal for a country with a very large merchant marine and much more linked into overseas trade than the Prussia of 1870. In a very short war that would...

The Devotion of Princess Sibylla by Félix Auvray, based on the famous legend where Sibylla sucked poison from a wounded Robert's chest. Chapter I: The Italian Princess (1100 to 1112) The history of the Levantine kingdoms is rich with significant women, perhaps more than in Christian Europe...

[Post reserved for upcoming family tree of the Norman dynasty of Jerusalem]

Robert Curthose (1051 - 1134), Duke of Normandy and later King of Jerusalem in Crusader garb as pictured by Henri Decaisne. Prologue: From Crusader to King (1099 to 1100) No ruler of Jerusalem has divided historical opinion as deeply or for so long as the assessment of the first King of...

I'd love to see Superman as the Fleischer mascot but I understand why that is tricky.

No Roland Rat? :'(

Cheetahs make far more plausible pets than the other big cats and have been frequently tamed but IRC unfortunately they are almost impossible to breed domestically.

Saved By the Bell (1989 - 1992) is a good example of the Long 80s carrying on into the 90s. I remember it used to be aired on Saturday morning on Channel 4 (British station but available in Ireland) into the mid-90s and gave pre-teen me a woefully inaccurate idea of what high school secondary...

Really you need to keep Pro-Life Democrats around on an elected level. A Pro-Life Democrat as president seems very unlikely after the 1970s but you could still have a vocal and powerful Pro-Life minority.

I suspect this might be a very low turnout election as faced with a choice between Edwards, Giuliani and Ventura social conservatives stay home in droves. In OTL turnout of elligible voters was higher than average at 62.5% but I expect this may be a lot lower here, maybe even below the modern...

While I agree that the Great Powers wouldn't allow Bulgaria to keep Constantinople would the city really be returned to the Ottoman Empire? Even in OTL the Ottotamans were the Sick Man of Europe; here they have shown themselves so weak they were unable to keep control of their own capital from a...

I suspect during the election the Republicans will try and cast Cuomo as a hypocrite for using his Catholicism as a reason to be against the death penalty while ignoring the Church's on abortion.

I'm afraid I don't know enough about the period to contribute much but it does sound an interesting idea. :)