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  1. How successful would an uprising at Auchwitz be?

    I am asking about the guy in the Sabaton song 4859. I read about him he had organized a resistance movement inside the camp and had escaped to try to get weapons from the Allies and the Polish Free Army. None came, but what if they did manage to get weapons into the camp? How successful do...
  2. Ancient weapon choices: why swords?

    I find myself being able to use a bow reasonably well, which to be honest I did not expect.
  3. Ancient weapon choices: why swords?

    That and they had a tendency to snap into pieces in the East where trees were an issue.
  4. Map Thread XVIII

    You know what we never see Latin America having colonies in Asia and Africa.
  5. Ancient weapon choices: why swords?

    Give me a battle axe, a tomahawk and a pair of knives and I will be happy in most eras before the invention of firearms
  6. Ancient weapon choices: why swords?

    Even into the 20th century in Europe spears aka lances and swords were seen as primary weapons due to a code of honor that was around at that time. Firearms for a long time were not seen as reliable. Only in the US were the revolver proven itself to be effective in the close quarter combat that...
  7. Make the most unusual culture you can even imagine.

    You do know that most of those heads were from people that they hunted down and killed in war. I understand how brutal the West was in the past, hell there are books made of human hair, skin and blood. I just cannot imagine it happening to me or someone I care about ok?
  8. Map Thread XVIII

    And yet I am going to ask what of Russia and the US? How are they going to respond to this?
  9. Make the most unusual culture you can even imagine.

    Honestly anything with head shrinking and cannibalism
  10. Map Thread XVIII

    The French are not going to be happy, they will want to have more than what they are getting.
  11. No Dustbowl?

    California becomes a liberal bastion much earlier. Many people forget the Okies where the base and still is the base of the Republican party in California. They only left because they had no choice. It was only with the power of Hispanics in 1990 did California change Dem. So a 1970's blue...
  12. Have a major language family "pull a Basque"

    Honestly I think one has to abandon the Afro-Eurasian region for this to happen, the Americas and the Pacific are highly likely to have something like this happen and I think they may have in several cases.
  13. Map Thread XVIII

    I m fine with this, I like Canadian Wisconsin
  14. AHC: Save the Aral Sea

    true I will give you that ok fair enough
  15. AHC: Save the Aral Sea

    I am surprised no has said this, destroy or prevent the USSR from happening, I doubt those Central Asian states could get the funding for diverting the rivers until the late 20th century and by then no one would do it because they know it would be a bad idea.
  16. WI Llamas and alpacas in North Africa?

    Well considering they are used to using camels their South American cousins wouldn't be that different for them, just smaller. Also goats are browsers they eat leaves, sheep eat grass.
  17. WI Llamas and alpacas in North Africa?

    Plus you are forgetting llamas are pack animals and can defend themselves from small canines effectively unlike sheep
  18. WI: US has not adopted a semi-auto rifle by its entry to WWII

    Well that I do not know, I had never heard of it until today
  19. WI: US has not adopted a semi-auto rifle by its entry to WWII

    Something that the Swiss made SIG KE-7 automatic rifle Designed by Pal de Kiraly and Gotthard End and manufactured by SIG Neuhausen in Switzerland c.1929-38. 7,92x57mm Mauser 25-round (and higher) removable box magazine, recoil-operated open-bolt select fire, folding bipod. The KE-7 automatic...
  20. Map Thread XVIII

    the last one I am loving
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