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The plan is that they would go to Brazil, as it is the largest Catholic country in the world. That's been the contingency plan for nuclear war since that threat existed. The Pope would stay behind and try and negotiate peace/console everyone etc. and the Cardinals and Vatican archives are moved...

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I assure you that our critiques are all in good nature, after all, what is the point of coming to AH.com other than to learn? I, personally, am waiting to see what the Hell the date is before I attempt to criticize this. Although, in all fairness, it does seem incredibly ASB for the US to...

Got my computer back! Astounding how fast the people at Apple do this stuff, a third of their projected time and it's back! VI “Ares the destroyer drive away!” Excerpt from “The Greatest Game: The Anglo-Russian War” by E. Adams, Oxford, 1995 For the first two years of...

So, my computer is in for repairs, and I may not be able to post the update tomorrow night as is usual. Hopefully they'll have it done by then but just in case, I apologize in advance.

Even so, with my limited knowledge of Greek history, it seems unlikely to me that the Spartans would be willing to spend their days farming (someone said the Helots would take the Persian side and I wholeheartedly agree). Could they even go somewhere else and subjugate another people like they...

But once again, Spartan culture doesn't exactly fall into line with what we think of as Greek, at least for the most part. And the Spartans were trained in asymmetrical warfare as much as one could be in that age. They were taught to steal, kill, and live stealthily and basically under the same...

I don't think the Spartans would let themselves be deported, they would probably take to the hills in a primitive form of guerilla warfare. That was, after all, part of their training at the expense of the helots. That in itself wouldn't really change that much though, we don't really remember...

If Athens had won the Peloponnesian War would the hoplite would have remained the backbone of Greek infantry or would the supposedly open Athenians have embraced a more flexible form of warfare?

So, I think we can all agree that the battle of Salamis was pretty damn important. But did the fate of Greek civilization, and by extension most of western civilization, really hang on this one battle? Is it possible, that, even if the Greeks lost at Salamis they could evacuate and "restart"...

I would highly contest both of these points, even though that may seem contradictory. You may be right past a certain point, but in the Early Cold War (up to and including the Cuban Missile Crisis) the NATO plan relied heavily on the use of nuclear weapons, in particular before the Cuban...

Another thing to take into account is that the Russian people might actually be more angry at a long war in this scenario than they were IOTL. ITTL Russia isn't fighting against an invader, they're doing the invading and a lot of they're fighting is going to be very far away. If the...

Davis Dutton Kranstover* Weber Davis and Dutton are Welsh, but the Davis's have, as far as we can reckon, been in America since well before the revolution (though not before 1700) and lived in Appalachia. Kranstover is Dutch (the family moved from Amsterdam to Rostock in 1632) and Weber is...

فرزندان داریوش (Descendants of Darius) A TL where the Tunguska event hits Paris and due to false scientific information that the continent is more likely to be hit by a meteor the new French capital is Algiers. France loses the Great War and the French government flees to Algiers while...

Someone's mighty angry. Wonder if he'll achieve that much following against Cromwell (if I read it correctly, the font is kind of hard to decipher).

So, not sure if you got this from the first post, but this was a question about Central Europe in the scenario provided at the start of the thread, not a question about the Armada itself. Assume for the purposes of discussion that the Armada succeeded.

I thought that as well, although our culture would still find some problems with it. Namely corporal punishment.

And aren't the Ottoman's still a threat to Austria at this point?

In a world where the Spanish Armada succeeds in landing in England, defeating the British, and placing a catholic on the throne, what would happen to Austria, Germany, and Italy The Duke of Parma's troops come back and crush the Dutch revolt, but Spanish rule in the Netherlands remains...

This involves a very complicated answer... but here goes. At this point Britain is not that solidly with France. Indeed the admiralty is the dominant force in British military thinking, and as a whole the nation is a lot more freaked out about German naval buildup than they are about...