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Another update! Great! Glad to see this TL active again. One point: Apparently the American projects are riddled with Soviet and German foreign agents. Was U.S. counterintelligence (J. Edgar's FBI) really that sloppy, even in pre-war days?

Luck, perhaps, but Cato's skill can't be discounted, both in choosing a good spot to make a stand and his skill with a sword. And he has some well chosen (by fate) friends. It will be interesting to see how they, especially Cottia, react in the aftermath of the fight. She is responsible for the...

Really liking this new Cato story, Cymraeg. Do you have the entire story already outlined, or do you just have a general idea where you want to go with it? A stadium is over 200 yards. Would Cottia be shooting at that distance, or should we assume there are at least a few seconds between her...

From post 1832: So Beliatrix has both dagger and short sword, but no experience in fighting to kill. [/FONT][/SIZE]

Can someone translate this into proper American, please? :D

^^^This^^^ Good work! So the researchers understand that radiation is more harmful than first thought iOTL. Any chance that the Soviet agents inside the research projects will be caught any time soon?

Does anyone know how the crossbow and early muskets compare regarding range and accuracy, as well as the number of shots per minute they could manage? Many years ago I read an ATL novel in which the American army during the Revolution adopted crossbows as a desperation measure to combat a...

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/history/marshall/military/mil_hist_inst/m/march2.asc (Emphasis mine.) Seven hours? Short day, but then Roman legions routinely set up pretty elaborate and well fortified night camps. French Foreign Legion units riding mules often traveled 60 miles in one...

Thank God!

Me, too. BTW, 15 miles is a morning's walk for someone in shape. I've done more than 30 miles in a day on a good trail in good weather, and I didn't think I was pushing it. I've read of Civil War units who marched 50 miles in a day. If it is indeed midday in Cato country, they have plenty of...

Fifteen miles on a good horse is about two and a half hours, or less if Cato pushes it. Assuming he does, they'll likely need new mounts when they reach the garrison or a couple days rest. Their pursuers have been riding hard to catch up, and thus their horses are more tired and less able to...

You might want to rethink that. I know that's the official story. I and several other members here might know another story.

Regarding Cottia's love of sharp pointy things:

Very nice political analysis of a JFK presidency. I'm not as sanguine that the Voting Rights Act as we know it would have passed without major revisions to satisfy the Dixiecrats -- the JFK legacy atmosphere was, I think, a major influence in the passage of OTL's bill. Kennedy may well have...

How would the Centurion compare versus Soviet tanks of the immediate post-WWII era? Here I'm thinking of a TL where Stalin decides he wants more of Europe and decides to attack his former allies in 1946 or '47 or just keep going after taking Berlin in 1945, before the A-bomb makes its debut.

Very true IMHO. You can see the change just in the music of the early '60s versus the late '60s. It goes from Bobby Vee to Jefferson Airplane at relative warp speed. Some of that shift would have occurred anyway -- Beatles, long hair, miniskirts, etc -- but without Vietnam and the assassinations...

This just gets better and more convoluted with each entry. Excellent. Young Beliatrix might be the biggest surprise.

Cato is younger than I had thought, which raises possibilities with Cottia, unless you plan to create a conflict between Cato and Beliatrix over her affections. Excellent chapter. Thanks.

What if: July 1944 Hitler assassinated or otherwise deposed and other top Nazis are arrested or otherwise isolated/exiled. The generals prop up a civilian replacement while quietly ordering western front commanders to initiate a fighting withdrawal with minimal major engagements. Meanwhile...

The Hartford World series over at the Naval Fiction board is based on a TL where New England broke away from the USA during the War of 1812. You might check that out for some ideas.