Recent content by tallthinkev

  1. A better Austro-Hungarian Navy for WW1

    Could go for a number of fast light cruisers 10/12, 9 6'' or 8'' guns. Double the amount of destroyer's and as many torpedo boats as they can manage. Any pre dreads they have can be port defence. But most important make them good, no cutting corners, reasonably cheap over all. They are not a...
  2. AHC: USA loses to Italy in a war (1861 start point)

    Italy wins anytime before the US really builds up it's Navy, before 1905? Before around 1890 USN had very few ships that could stand up to any power in Europe. All Italy has to do is blockade the ports, they win
  3. The Norman Conquest of England failing, and effects on the continent.

    Harold could marry off Gytha to some powerful-ish count/duke, or son? Lands within the family means a lot
  4. Possible and Probable Inventions of a Stable WRE

    Thinking about the chimney, possible, if so what could it have been called?
  5. Possible and Probable Inventions of a Stable WRE

    Greek fire, that's a yes I think, crossbows were about by the handheld ones were not that powerful
  6. Possible and Probable Inventions of a Stable WRE

    I talking about the western half in general, 27bc, to 476ad, or longer if things worked out.
  7. Possible and Probable Inventions of a Stable WRE

    Life in the WRE and the empire in general was full of ups and downs, more downs in many cases. However if the empire was more stable, which normally means more money to go around, which inventions could have come earlier? I'm not thinking of great leaps like the steam engine, or gunpowder, but...
  8. Wallies reach 1938 Soviet borders -- what do postwar borders look like?

    Think this is going to need a number a narrow fronts. Bypass Holland for a start, but still have enough troops to stop a counter attack from there. Get straight in to the Rhur but only go for targets of strategic value, doesn't matter if town X has 1,500 troops, they're not going to be able to...
  9. Wallies reach 1938 Soviet borders -- what do postwar borders look like?

    Wouldn't this mean little or even no lead lease from the UK and US?
  10. Planned aircrafts carriers on countries that never had any up to today

    Could Mexico or Peru pick up a Independence Class?
  11. If the USSR does not fall, would it currently be more powerful militarily than the United States?

    The USSR were always big on quantity over quality and making their equipment simple to operate. Maybe a more basic version of the T-90 as the MBT, rather than the T-72 OTL?
  12. 1861-1862 Western Theater and probabilities?

    Got to hold the Mississippi, or at the very least blockade it in a few places
  13. French Don't Join the American Revolutionary War

    No France means Britain can send more ships to the east coast of the would be US. They would be able to stop half the French ships reaching the traitors. They can send the ships to Canada to resupply and off home they go, o good pissing of the French by taking the ships as a prize. They might...
  14. Would a French invasion of Belgium in World War I have led to a guaranteed defeat for the Franco-Russian Alliance?

    Britain said it would protect Belgium and it did, trade comes second if you have given your word
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