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in pretty wacky ways, if the celestial chinese empire mentioned was any indication. Oh - and nuclear powered zeppelin-carriers... er, really?

Shadow run - magic mumbo-jumbo aside: New Japanese imperialism- including an invasion of california New confederacy Mexico invading the US US absorbing Canada Random separatism The entirety of the carribean forming a political union - despite their considerable differences and we...

Of course there is: Slaves & new land - that was all the booty Rome needed, at the end of the day, to keep things ticking for a little longer.

Too true- luckily for everyone involved maniacal dictators tend to think globally, even if they only plan to act locally.

China - because Japanese military intervention on Germany's behalf is a freebie. Rationale - Japan wants to expand and secure their resource base. Every direction they want to move, they are going to attack or at least distract Germany's opponents. If they go North, they cause trouble for...

Interesting - the original advocates for priestly celibacy (in the early church period) seemed to place more emphasis on avoiding the creation of a priestly caste, & most especially on avoiding excessive pagan influences. Since during the periods in question, like tended to marry like, the...

Iroquois/Cherokee side with the colonists vs the pink blob. Gain status as states Changes USA-Native relations, development of US, who knows what else. Punic wars worse for both sides - both Rome & Carthage end up exhausted, fade from history. Mohammed fails to conquer medina -...

it is looking like I'll have to give RoM a shot. Thanks everyone for the advice/suggestions.

Thanks - I'll give that a shot

thanks - enjoyed the heck out of Rhye's (it and next war are my current faves), will have to try that out. I just wish I could find one that pulls in the more out-there old CTP future-themed bits. - used to derive much evil glee from ramping up GW and watching all the filthy landlubbers sink...

So, Now that the young one seems to be almost through teething, free time is starting to make a reappearance around the household. As such, my interest in Civ 4 has been renewed. Given the general theme of the board, this seemed like it might be a good place to ask: What...

Slightly different colonization and we get Nueva Galicia Las Provincias Unidas Del Norteamerica

If the ISOT includes cruise ships operating out of the US east coast, it would make for the hilarious image of Colon's three ships being suddenly overshadowed by the ominious appearance of... the Disney Cruises liner... :)

But they wouldn't have gone as far as they did, to get themselves into a situation which would call for an embargo, without Europe going haywire. The OP posits a Europe essentially at peace from 1933 or so onward - no distractions, no imperial decapitation, no easy openings. The Japanese aren't...

There wouldn't be a pacific war. Why? The Japanese would not have gotten up to the stuff they did in OTL if everyone else wasn't distracted by events in Europe. They certainly would not have picked a simultaneous fight with every significant European colonial power, the US, the USSR, and...

well, to put it kindly, you have a more than slightly defective comprehension of capitalism. (robbing the worker of the surplus value? Really, how exactly do folks imagine capitalists do that - walk around holding guns to people's heads demanding overtime? That sort of thing only happened...

No, the needs and wants portion is the... relative value to Joe of his time. It will take longer or shorter time period, depending on how great the discrepancy is, but if Joe 'receives' more for the shoes than they 'cost' him to make, he ends up a capitalist. If he gets less, he quits making...

Ok, let's follow this model and see where it leads. Joe sells his spare shoes. One of three things will happen - he will get less for his shoes than his time was worth (to him), he will get the same amount, or he will get more. If he gets less, he quits the shoe factory and tries to find...

Not in the Soviet Union he doesn't. Selling things for money is capitalist - which leads to having serious men in dark coats asking serious questions to your ex-neighbors, while you get reassigned to work camps in siberia.

Riiight, that worked soooo well in the past. Which is why communist systems had such stellar records at production and quality. But hey, let us take the assertion at face value: So Josef Smithinski gets to take home his portion of the daily boot output. Wonderful. What the hell is...