Recent content by Shtudmuffin

Depends on how early your PoD is, as was said. For different PoDs you could do different nations. Here's some possibilities I've always envisioned for the US and Canada: Pre Independence PoD: -New Netherlands -New Sweden -Puritanical Massachusetts/Connecticut/Rhode Island -Vermont -Spanish...

Hey, so I was just reading about the Treaty of Fontainebleau signed in 1762 by France and Spain that gave Louisiana to Spain. However, I was a bit unclear on France's motivation. Was it because they didn't want all of New France to fall to England? Was it because they lacked the capability to...

I would imagine that the Second Spanish Republic would continue to exist to this day in such a scenario.

I thought COD in the title meant "Call of Duty". I was all like "It already is, I've gotten it like 3 times..." :p:D

That's not going to happen unless Spain gets thrown in the war, and that itself is unlikely unless you can get rid of Spain's political instability in the 19th century.

So, I just did some research. Turns out this guy was making IC engines 50 years ahead of their time. They were crude, but could easily have been improved. Unfortunately, he was assassinated in 1804. What might have happened if he had lived, though? Also, does anyone have a...

We're measuring output in the amount of consumable calories. And what kind of reforms, short of forced land redistribution, would be necessary to encourage the dismemberment of the latifundios into these smaller and more productive farms?

Let's assume it's on decent quality soil, growing wheat/corn (whatever the standard European crop of this time was), with standard Western European climate and I don't know about the labor and other stuff. To be more specific, 19th century Spain.

So, this thread is for questions on land reform/agrarian reform in the 19th century and how it works. I'll probably be asking most of the questions, but oh well. I shall start us off with this: -What is the optimal farm size for agricultural productivity?

What do you have against unified Germany? 99% of your maps have a divided and/or France-dominated Germany

Who's to say it can't go up sideways or diagonally? The machine can move from side to side, it isn't just relegated to forward and back movement. And I don't think too many steep hills like that could be found in a typical battle (but I don't know a thing about hill grades, so...)

I'm honored that I was quoted in the OP :o:)

Shurik, do you have to ruin me outside of Viva la Revolucion too? :p Anyway, these responses to your points will be brief, and some might be missing, as I am on my phone. First off, screw drives have a lot of torque. Worm gears, basically a gear version of the screw propulsion, have one...

True. But perhaps auxiliary, unarmed fuel-carriers with a similar method of propulsion would be able to extend the range. Ah, right, I forgot about the fireman. Maybe a coal auger would suffice?

Yeah, I knew. In fact, that's pretty much what gave me the idea-use that machine's screw drive as the big tank in the first picture's propulsion.