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A lot depends on how you see how Arthur does at attracting support and other king things - he died far too soon OTL to really reveal how he'd be as a king. Eleanor of Aquitaine doesn't seem fond of him OTL, William Marshal not particularly enthusiastic either (although probably willing to go...

It seems like it was not in a great way on Henry V's OTL death, especially if Burgundy's interest in backing Henry V/II fades. I'd hesitant to bet on it being a definite win for the House of Lancaster. Also, given how late Henry V married - is he likely to have more kids than just one? I mean...

A surviving "Byzantine" Empire seems like it would be anywhere from likely to unlikely, larger than the southern Balkans+modern Turkey or smaller depending on the POD, It's not really a simple "give them a better political class" in general - you might have it get through up to something akin...

Yeah. I put 1280 as the early end for that if you want Osman to eat an arrow and be forgotten, this is roughly when to start - earlier gets into changing everything. Which might not be bad! But you might get something like the Habsburgs as TTL's House of Hanover taking over Great Britain by...

As far as butterflies go, are we talking "Osman never amounts to much." (which goes all the way back to the beginnings of the Habsburgs amounting to something on the level they reached OTL), or are we talking something later? I know you said the specifics don't matter, but butterflies from...

Probably. I don't know if Wales is doomed to be conquered, but from what I know of history (as opposed to this site) it seems less likely to stay independent than Ireland with a POD between - say - 1000-1200 or so. I'm not sure I can think of any examples of "Ireland united and independent"...

This relevant to borders in general, not just that border, but honestly? Probably somewhere between "random" and "based on what makes sense at the moment I'm drawing it." I'm not sure I could say, especially with a point of departure centuries ago, there's any reason for the border between...

I think the first question would be if he is fit for field duty or not (in the near future as of May 1863). A lot of changes unfold from there - not necessarily a Confederate win to the war, but if you change Gettysburg (or avoid it) that does start changing things on how things unfold.

Thank you! It's going to be interesting to see how events with Samuel play out. Not to be impatient, just enthusiastic. Yeah, we have 1.0, but this version has put a lot more life (and blindings and mutilations) into the glorious drama that is the history of Rome.

Bit late for the "It lives!", but I haven't checked this site in years except for rereading old threads, and I've at laat gotten around to this one. Great to see there's still more to see in this world, however long it may be to finish chapter 30.

So it's not so much "actually invading" as somehow managing to take one or both? Yeah, I think this is asking a lot.

I would not want to push that as an unsupported artillerist, though. Artillery certainly could be and was effective, but eighty guns versus ten thousand infantrymen is going to be bloody.

Being outraged by the big guns probably had something to do with that. 500 yards isn't much, but it beats the distance you can hit even with long range musket fire.

True enough. Pakenham sounds like someone who might have been bitten by the Peter Principle when given independent command, Ross I defer to you. I think the main problem is that the amount of effort it would have taken was underestimated, and by the point that would have been weighed and...

Having not read Churchill, I can't compare him to my reading, but the Royal Navy's record on Champlain (as something happening in two separate wars with the Americans) does not inspire me - even its smashing defeat of Benedict Arnold was done as overwhelming force against Arnold having giant...

Cleburne early on showed little of his later promise, and is far too junior in 1862 - Forrest is similar. And this is sidestepping whether or not Forrest's record is really a sign he could handle an (infantry) corps.

That was their claim, and certainly there was at least the idea of taking British seamen "back" - but I'm not sure how much anyone tried to tell the difference.

1) The problem is that there are already competitors. Just not the ones you're looking at. 2) And countries are rarely smaller just because they decided they don't like territorial expansion. 3) You do know that they weren't manned by Western Europeans for no reason, right? What does Scotland...

The US did invade Canada. It just failed miserably. It still didn't make the War of 1812 warrant being promoted from "minor" to "secondary".

One of Bragg's Pensacola pals. A brigade commander at Shiloh and so forth. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10828 - here's the basics. The part about being at Pensacola like Bragg is why he came to mind. Well, if we're knocking Bragg out before anything happens but...