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Yeah, you just need money. The problem for most medieval kingdoms was the funding (Hence the lack of standing armies for most people) Medieval Men-at-arms aka 'Knights' often had their own land and could supply and equip themselves that was one of reasons they were used so much, the...

:) That sounds like a pretty good TL. I'd subscribe.

OTL Basically.

Uh, no, no that's not what I had in mind.

Well I could probably do something and I was thinking that Otto Skorzeny might make an appearance. I dunno, do you think the colonials would be buy the whole 'this way we don't have to use young frenchmen to deal with this.' angle. As for carving out more territory. . . isn't the rest of...

Point, I'll re-write that. France at least a million prisoners before america turned over another 700,000 so even after weeding out the ones that were non-combatants or too old or that committed war crimes and/or worked in the camps you still have a massive force. Kind of like OTL Foreign...

Well there were several renaissances, there was a twelfth century renaissance and as time goes by and technology and ideas about religion and government. . . progress for lack of a better word something like a renaissance will happen.

Elfwine said it best. What do you mean by middle ages anyway?

Read the back of his bio wrong. :o

Yeah, that was one of the reasons I decided to go with this TL, a lot of the POD and backdrop had already been done. The only difference is the french have decided to use an all foreign force, because french mothers won't care if german sons die on the other side of the globe. Especially if...

So, IOTL Tolkien lived to be 73 but what if he lived to be. . . I dunno, ninety-something? Over a hundred? What happens?

Yeah, although the French actually did that in OTL

Any chance of an update?

So I kinda went off half-cocked in the first version and it needed a lot work so. . . Again, comments and critique are welcome. May 1946. Hundreds of thousands of men in US lend-lease uniforms waited patiently inside the Ami sea-lift ships the Americans had been kind enough to lend to...

Ah, no actually, they're made from steel. And according to modern research medieval man was almost as tall as we were and a medieval man-at-arms trained from childhood and the peasants had to do very intensive physical labor. You might wanna check out the ARMA's website and myarmoury.com, I...

I disagree, plate came about because with the invention of the Hydraulic Hammer, like LCS mentioned it became as cheap and easy to make as Mail and the thickest point of a suit of plate is the cuirass which is about 1-2mm the point is to provide a glancing surface and re-direct the armour. And...

Actually no, Plate's more flexible than Mail and re-enactors in authentic suits are still able to do hand-stands and cart-wheels and RL Knights were expected to vault into the saddle They did, it was called the Cannon and it wasn't the Pikes alone, in earlier battles the Swiss did manage to...

Well, OTL 'Knights' fought as often on foot as they fought on horseback, that's why they were the dominant arm. They had trained since childhood and they could fight as either heavy cavalry or heavy infantry or they lighten their gear and function as light troops.

The Empire of Japan was overstretched, resource-poor and there's the whole question of where they would have found troops. Not to mention the fact that even before reinforcement American forces on the Island would have heavily outnumbered the handful of troops the Japanese would have been able...

Meanwhile a certain Prince by the name of Khosrau re-read the report and looked at the map on the wall of the War-Council's Chamber. "Of all the times the damned Hepthalites could have chosen they pick this one." His father raised a bushy eyebrow and grinned sardonically. "And you can be...