Note that this would also mean through the Netherlands.
The terrain isn't "symmetrical" in the area. Germany has a well-supplied railhead they can mass on and then invade Belgium, fanning out to attack important heartlands of France. While if France attempted to invade Germany by violating...
There probably are, but those help against a single or at most a couple of crop failures. What they don't help against is: "Oh god the climate cooled and now way less water is being evaporated and the rains will be weak for a century."
Baku is always a kingly price, even if the last two inhabitants died strangling each other. It has something like an 1/8th of the global oil production at this time. Until the survey of Ghawar, it has more oil production capacity than all the holdings of the Ottoman empire, by a factor of 3 or so.
My prediction: Iskandar the younger is going to recruit the prisoners into his own army, and soon after will get killed by his own troops for being a Roman patsy. Seeing his best friend die like that, and his dreams of a permanent alliance on the eastern border die with him, Ody goes "so that's...
The dissemination of Arabic numerals was well underway when the POD happened. IIRC Fibonacci wrote his book in 1202, and soon after most people who really cared about arithmetic were at least aware of them, even if it took a couple hundred years more before they were in wide use.
Roman numerals...
The reason why so many of the springsharp ships turn out so heavy is that people are now avoiding the "poor seaboat"/"risks damage in heavy seas" warnings, and try to have good crew accommodation spaces. There are many level of such warnings in springsharp, and the first ones all trigger quite...
And the later SoDak's were over 40000 tons standard, but were made to fit under 35000 tons standard by messing with definitions. Do a similar amount of bending the rules, and SoDak's and Lex's will both fit under 40000 without any issues.
Both the Lexingtons and the South Dakotas fit under a 40000 treaty tonnage limit comfortably without any physical changes, with less rules-lawyering than what was needed to get the 1939 South Dakota to fit under 35k. In actual planned wartime full load, the 1920 SoDak is only ~2000 tons heavier...
OTL, the new Austrian government almost immediately passed a law that banished all Hapsburgs from Austria unless and until they formally irrevocably renounce any and all claim to any royal title or position in Austria and accept their status as non-noble citizens. Otto von Hapsburg, the heir to...
Those were very good guns, in high demand and short supply. Additionally, for troops that are intended to be out of regular supply, having fast-firing artillery is much less of a boon than otherwise. I think some obsolescent (if not obsolete) heavy guns would fit the bill better here.
Oof. Hasn't Germany been beaten enough?
Although this Peasant's War might be more successful than the original. In the "Barbarossa" it has an actual leader with even some military experience, which already puts it leagues above the OTL situation. Beyond that, the armies of the people who would...
Welcome to the magic world of 19th/early 20th century "science". Experiments are expensive, so they are done once and never repeated, no-one is actually looking for negative results, everyone knows what they want the results of their experiment to be before they do them, to the point that a lot...
They could not get it to reliably detonate. Neither did the Germans, but the goals and values were different -- the Germans wanted to penetrate heavy armor no matter what, reliable detonation was secondary, while the British wanted to get the dud rate (as measured in shells not detonating) to be...