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But they still took casualties. So did the later Europeans, but less per se because they used ranged weapons. The difference in technology between the Norse and Skraelings is low enough that the Norse really needed to avoid fights. The geology is against it, but gold would do the trick...

They also had a hostile native problem as well as being on the end of a "suppy" line. Not necessarily, but it does help.

I will agree to disagree with you on him ;)

Why bother using a Lion BB when a squadron of Lancasters can dropTallboys on on a nearly finished version a la the Tirpitiz?

Just watched him. Won't be repeating the experience.

Nick HD Mapping was simplistic too. The idea that in spite of not having lost in the Great War the British would just hand over their Empire to the Central Powers is laughable to say the least.

Stuart Slade's The Big One TL covers some conflict between 1946 German and US equipment, mainly in the air. Even taking his economies with a pinch of salt you have to remember that the US economy on OTL could produce far greater volumes of equipment than the Third Reich. This means that the...

Pelts would have a profit margin worth it if they are good enough quality. As I said in an earlier posting the French traded a lot for furs. Narwhal horn is uncommon and walrus ivory (which Greenland also exported) is only saleable if there there is unsufficient elephant ivory on the market. In...

Not hundreds of miles even by sea, which is the point that I was making. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_von_Th%C3%BCnen

Did not say that they did. The point I made was that China provided support in manpower and some on them died, In return, China expected something back from the Entente, eg less treaty ports, but did not receive anything.

Furs certainly would be. To meet European demand the Russians were pushing farther and farther eastwards because they were "harvesting" animals so unsustainability. In fact one reason why the French went to Canada was for the same reason. The trick though with the fur trade would be for the...

The dying bit would not make that much difference. The Chinese did that then got well screwed at Versailles.

One point about the blockade is that there was a land as well as a sea element. Without Ship Island and the capture of islands such as the Outer Banks and Roanoke Island the USN would not have had the bases that it needed. Without the bases all the CSA ports would remain open. In fact, in spite...

Good on the spot and maybe shipping some dried back to Greenland, but that is about it. Shipping basic food stuffs hundreds of miles does not make sense in a pre-industrial economy. The Romans only shipped grain for political reasons. Unfortunately, like other Medieval Europeans they would have...

Why would knights go to such a distant land to kill pagans when they can easily to the Baltic?

When you follow the logic of it, it really was not that bad, especially when you consider would was happeneing in Germany at the time.

I have read a lot of the books. The key point is that Grantville changed a lot of rules. You have the choice of buying in, resisting or being swept aside. In the later books all three happen. Witchcraft and anti-Semeticism are two obvious ones. No spoilers though from me on what happens...

The army would have avoided the idiotic march back to Babylon via the desert.

The Duchy of Courland has a few small colonies.

Before he can do so, he has to build a better fleet than the one that got wasted at Lepanto in 1571.