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Concur. Octavian was a master politician, but he was no general; he had Agrippa for that, and the army knew it. If Octavian died - and not in battle, he probably never fought - the outcome doesn't change. It was Agrippa who defeated Antony, not Octavian. And Agrippa himself was no mean politician

Napoleon had already redployed his armies from Boulogne to confront the Austrians after the British had subsidised the Third Coalition. There would have been no invasion; the barges he had built were already rotting. What might have occurred was trade strangulation of the British Isles, but it...

Out of curiosity, even if a surrender would be entertained, is there anyone in a position to order a general German surrender?

I assume the French will promptly wheel left and head straight for Nuremberg

Yes, but Beria outlasted Stalin - albeit by not very long, because the other senior Politburo members hated him. Now, butterflies will butterfly, but there is every chance the same thing will happen here; Stalin probably won't live as long. He drank considerably less during the war than before...

I disagree. The foundations of the Soviet state were solid - built on blood, but solid. The Soviet regime had more than 30 years of propaganda to back it up, and after the horrors of collectivisation and forced industrialisation, the living standards of the people were actually improving. The...

True, but here he wont be Hitler's designated successor, and his U-Boats won't have had nearly the same impact

Some Germans will.come out of this shitshow far better than OTL - Doenitz, for example, probably won't even face a trial, nor most likely would Raeder. Speer might, but he hadn't been up to a hell of a lot at this stage and the Todt organisation has hardly had a chance to ramp up. Hess -...

Actually, one fate for Hitler I haven't seen is him actually standing trial. I thought that's where this was going. His fate here is certainly poetic, but I would have liked to see him rant at Nuremberg. Though I don't see those kinds of trials here

I assume a large part of the AdA will be seconded to the British. The French will have less need, being closer to their own bases, and probably better and more artillery. They would also tie up fewer logistics assets than, say, a French army (which the logistics in the north couldn't handle) and...

Was it just simple doctrine that the French crews all wore them?

Is Ireland an independent kingdom with the same king per the theoretical model of OTL or has it become a constituent part of Spain like Aragon or Castille?

Ummmm... what the actual fuck? Lad, you win a war when your enemy accepts defeat and asks for terms. Now, the Dauphin might have come close at one point (his mother in law stopped him), but he was still in the field and the Burgundian attachment to the English cause was patchy. And Henry V was...

I often thought of messing around with a similar TL, but with Hoche landing in Bantry in 1796. This serves equally as well; Ireland was fiercely Catholic, though in its own idiosyncratic way, the nobles and even the commons hated the English, though at the time they were largely confined to the...

Ummmm ... that was Germany in World War One, dude. The British blockade during the Revolutionary Wars was about making sure the French couldn't concentrate their naval assets again after Trafalgar. The British naval blockade devastated places like Bordeaux, but it didn't damage the broader...

Typo, I should have said 22 (still wrong, but closer). Doesn't invalidate the point, though (well, mathematically, it probably does

No, Great Britain (the island) had a population of 10 million (roughly) in 1800. Subtract maybe 3 million for Scotland and Wales, and you have a natural increase in England from about 7 million to about 50 million. That's a 700% increase, give or take (Scotland and Wales were different)...

I'm in no way defending the comparison, in any way, shape, or form, but the poster did say 'the standards of the day,' and by those standards, to be promiscuous and gay was considered abnormal. Thankfully, we have moved on.

Have to agree with this; de Lattre de Tassigny would be a better bet. He was already commanding a division, if I remember correctly. Additionally,the Entente strategy is flawed. The French would be better moving east, then wheeling south to trap the remaining German armies between themselves and...

Just read the most recent update, it's fascinating, but also a very serious problem. At some point, Germany is going to be catastrophically defeated, it's armies shattered and its people forced to deal with their toleration and glorification of amoral sociopaths. All well and good, but I asked...