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  1. Hecatee

    AHC Cimon Successful (2024 ed)

    I have not enough knowledge of the Egyptian situation to make a guess in either direction, on the other hand the level of anger might be higher and thus the rebels be more numerous, making the Persians' situation more difficult. About Asia Minor, there could be a number of scenarios : limited...
  2. Hecatee

    AHC Cimon Successful (2024 ed)

    Oh and on the issue of citizenship : Pericles' democracy introduced stricter criterion for athenian citizenship (both parents needed it to give it to a newborn), in part because citizenship was voting power as well as participation in the institutions and thus something precious in democracy...
  3. Hecatee

    AHC Cimon Successful (2024 ed)

    I would think that Cimon was experienced enough to understand the logistical issues of such a deployement, and the fact it would be a long term commitment : he may not be secure enough in his alliances at home to take such a risk, especially given that his (economic, political, etc) interest lie...
  4. Hecatee

    AHC Cimon Successful (2024 ed)

    I'd expect some degree of revolution against the oligarchs, especially given that Athens has the experience of throwing out the previous tyrany. The events in Thebes in the same period, or the affairs of Corcyra, also point me in this direction. The big question however is what can Cimon do on...
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    AHC: Prevent Frankish Conquest of Lombard Kingdom (774)

    if you want an easy POD just have some bad cow disease strike in Frankish territory at that time. To go down south the franks had to move around the date of convocation of the Ost, which was always called for no more than 3 months, because they were at the limits of their logistical system...
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    Wrapped in Flames: The Great American War and Beyond

    I wonder about Haiti/San Domingo : an esclavagist country with a lot of veterans who may want to keep fighting because they know nothing else and hope to gain a plantation ? A place which neither France nor UK would defend ? A place that could also deliver some negroes not coming from Africa and...
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    WI: NACA Modified P-38

    I'd love to give your guys a budget to actually build this super 100% hindsight P-38 plane, a pity I don't have the money ! You are really nuts (and bolts) in a good way :) but this makes for fascinating reading even for a non engineer guy like me
  8. Hecatee

    In Britannia Salutem

    Thanks a lot for the long ride :)
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    AHC: Alternate High Pax Romana (circa 120 to 160)

    quarantine was known and existed in antiquity, you find it in the old testament but also in hypocratic writings which are the one actually proposing a period of 40 days, 40 being said "quarante" in French, "quaranta" in Italian, where some of the earlier medieval quarantine rules were taken
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    AHC: Alternate High Pax Romana (circa 120 to 160)

    Hard to say as such plagues are now known to have often been linked to climatic events that caused animals in Asia to cause the plague's diffusion to humans... Now it is also true that no mass legionary movements in the eastern part of the empire around the 160's might have limited or slowed the...
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    A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    I would think that the fact Poland would have one border less to defend, gain more sea access (so no possibility to cut them from it by just taking Dantzig), and have a compensation for any land lost to Russia which is a nicely fortified area would all make it interesting for everyone but the...
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    A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    I could see East Prussia go fully to Poland, as a kind of compensation for Staline's "acquisitions", this would make a much simpler world after the fall of the USSR...
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    AHC: Alternate High Pax Romana (circa 120 to 160)

    My way of looking at thinks is all about logistics. There is a very good set of maps at Orbis (https://orbis.stanford.edu/) under "gallery" that shows that the limits of the Roman empire are linked to travel time from Rome. Mesopotamia was just too far from where every limit in the empire was...
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    AHC: Alternate High Pax Romana (circa 120 to 160)

    First : thanks for the kind words on my old TL's :) Now to your questions. - Trajan's succession : a big question is who did actually choose Hadrian ? It seems to have be mainly the women around Trajan that choose him : it was set up through wedding and politicking years ahead, and still took...
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    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    I'll PM you
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    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Actually I'm doing my PhD on technothrillers and Clancy's "origin story" is probably more complex that you'd expect... I've probably found half a novel with another author's name on the cover which may have been written by Clancy, and that other author had the means to make Clancy edited and...
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    Best PoD(s) for an Athenian/Corinthian/Spartan/Theban Democracy/Republic Turned Empire?

    Someone summoned me ? :) Before we talk empire and Greece we have to look at demographics : - Thebes never managed to dominate outside of Boeotia, even under Epaminondas when they beat the Spartans : they first managed to gain their autonomy thanks to Athens' support, and then had only a...
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    Keynes' Cruisers Volume 2

    Actually she might well have to take out her rationing book at this early a date : products such as butter were still rationed in the 50's according to my grandma's memories, the Belgians comming like her to France for their hollidays often brought products such as butter to gift to local friends
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    Alcibiades is tried before the Athenian expedition to Sicily departs and found innocent

    Given the amount of forces Athens brought to bear and the sheer lack of organization the sources describe on the Syracusan part before the arrival of the Spartan commander, I do believe a more dynamic approach led by Alcibiades might well have worked. But I don't see them doing a straight up...
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    Keynes' Cruisers Volume 2

    With the West being further East than OTL, how much % more of the German tech base have they been able to get ? Or deny to the soviet ? For instance will the soviet have enough for the Mig-17 or modern submarines ? Or to help their rocket program ?
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