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    Question about Cavalry vs Napoleonic square

    iI know that there is debate about how many French were at the battle. We do not know and estimates normally range from 10-36,000. I am going for around 30,000 but not all knights. Would the training of a knights warhorse mean that it would actually crash into the side of a square? The...
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    Question about Cavalry vs Napoleonic square

    Its actually for an ASB plot but I thought I would ask it here were the experts live. Assuming that there are about 30,000 French at Agincourt.... And they are opposed by the British 3rd division from the Waterloo campaign Being 3rd Division Lieutenant-General Count Sir Charles Alten...
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    WI: The Technocracy Movement was Successful?

    Did you miss out a "not" in there???
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    A Blunted Sickle

    Except It was reputed to be the Papal legate Arnaud Amalric the Abbot of Citeaux who is supposed to have said it - not the Pope. And there is no first hand account to verify that those words were actually spoken at the time.
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    A Blunted Sickle

    Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius
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    A Blunted Sickle

    Ben in Manx means Woman........ So Lady of Mann and Woman of my Heart
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    A Blunted Sickle

    SS Ben-my-Chree (1927) was not converted to a Landing Ship Infantry (Hand Hoisting) vessel with a carrying capacity of six landing craft assault until 1944 - would she have been conducting this as a basic passanger ship???..
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    A Blunted Sickle

    Le Fantasque-class destroyer - Displacement: 2,569 long tons (2,610 t) standard 3,200–3,400 long tons (3,300–3,500 t) full load Length: 132.40 m (434 ft 5 in) Beam: 11.98 m (39 ft 4 in) Draught: 4.30 m (14 ft 1 in) Propulsion: 4 × Penhoët boilers 2 × Parsons or Rateau engines Geared...
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    A Blunted Sickle

    Send in the Manxman....... :cool:
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    Argentine mainland Air Defences???

    I am mainly interested in whst they would have access to ion April 1982 rather than late may or June. I believe Brazil lent them some stuff as well but again that was later
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    Argentine mainland Air Defences???

    Is that on the mainland or around Port Stanley???
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    Argentine mainland Air Defences???

    Anybody know a source for the AA and SAM forces that defended the main land in 1982????
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    Non English speaking America

    If emigration from the British Isles after 1800 did not go to America with possibly increased immigration from Central Europe and Russia how might the use of language develop in the growing USA???
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    AHC: German's Defeated Sooner

    If its an agreed peace is it unconditional??? You really need boots on the ground in Germany to enforce an unconditional surrender - so that probably means Russian boots as the Wallies need time to train up the American Army. Unless before 1945 includes late 1944..... In which case you...
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    Challenge: Make Falklands War bigger

    You get a load of Booties killed in their beds suddenly it get a lot more tense. Trouble is it just leads to even more American support for the Brits. Its one thing when there has been a few if any British casualties. It is another if the Argentinians have conducted a massacre.
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    Space denial

    Yes they are denying access to space above their own countries to themselves as well. They are taking an area of technology were they are losing out of the equation so they can concentrate on other areas.
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    Space denial

    America quickly caught up with Russia and 'won' the space race. The American's also had the advantage in satellite technology and thus could spy from space on Russia and China etc What would happen if they decided to deny America access to space above their countries by seeding space with...
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    Continuity War - Did Finland have a viable alternative?

    Well to be fair would the Cornish think they are English?? Or Yorkshire men? England has just been a unified 'state' longer than the United Kingdom has been
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    AHC BNP Election Victory

    But UKIP and the Tories would not form a coalition with them - the BNP are beyond the Pale for any party that hopes to have influence in Parliament. You would need to change the whole rational of the BNP maybe make it culturalist rather than racist - but that would be ASB territory as well.
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    Continuity War - Did Finland have a viable alternative?

    I was doing some reading that suggested that the Finns thought engaging the Soviet Union in 1941 was the lesser of two evils rather than their preferred choice. Given; Finland had already suffered an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union. And The example of Soviet annexation of the...
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