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Henry VIII set effective shooting range as 220 yards. Infantry at the double would cover that in about 80 seconds. Furthest range at the butts recorded as 345 yards. Against infantry your longbowmen aren't going to engaged for more than 2 minutes before the enemy has closed to knife range. How...

"To Boldly Go Amongst Them" in Tsouras ed. Cold War Hot is just such a scenario. Thank's for the working link. You've the best of the argument at the mo' I think.

Read the rest of my post.

Full disclosure to Peking beforehand? The US was told repeatedly not to come anywhere near the Yalu during the Korean Confrontation but Dugout Doug just wouldn't listen. Telling Peking they would not have been going anywhere near the border and that they were nixing China being surrounded by...

That link doesn't go anywhere sensible I'm afraid.

When your average longbowman can put 12 arrows in the air in a minute, the point of this is what exactly? The same reasoning had the Lee-Enfield hang on later than most other bolt-action rifles. We already had the trained bowmen, other nations already had the crossbow. This device would be a...

The proposal illustrated is that of February 1942, see Morgan & Shacklady, Spitfire: the History, Key Books, 2000, p549. In May of 1938 Richard Fairey refused to build the Spitfire in lieu of the Fulmar. 2nd of January 1940 Joe Smith forwarded a proposal for a Griffon-engined, folding -wing...

How should LBJ have approached Vietnam? Any way that wasn't half-arsed: The US should either have got out, or invaded the North and cut the head off the beast. Unless it was early doors, say immediately after JFK was in the ground, anything else was probably not going to work.

Very good so far. Watched. Much as I enjoy seeing the US smacked around, I'm hoping "Those People" hand Lee his head and comprehensively take the ANV apart. It'd also be entertaining to have Dan Sickles as "improbable" hero rather than prize prat.

I'm confused. This appears to be OTL: in TTL none of this is so all the underlined are exiled or dead and their lines extinguished; the Rashidi's have usurped or replaced all these folk, no?

Off topic Lycaon pictus, but I ordered Altered Seasons: Monsoonrise in paperback yesterday afternoon and had THE fastest turnaround of ANY physical item I've ever ordered on the 'net! :extremelyhappy: It arrived mid-morning.

Yee gods! this damned thing has been going nine years - and I've been reading it maybe twelve hours! It is, I think, ridiculously good.

It's a range thing; its a training thing; its an nco thing; its a logistics thing; its a combined arms thing; its a manpower thing. Hoplite beats Immortal; Iphicratian beats Hoplite; Phalangite beats Iphicratian; Hastati beats Phalangite. The spears got longer, the reach increased. The pilum had...

Excellent! I sympathise with your formatting problems. If there were ever a dead trees version of this I'd happily buy it in hardback. :)

Nom , nom, nomm. Very tasty; I like the mixed style a lot. Only black mark - you've kept me up all night, ya bugger! :-)

4. needs the Allies to act more swiftly, put airborne into Rome, land to the north of it, and breakout quickly without fannying about. Kesselring said there were insufficient forces to prevent this; the Germans would have recoiled behind the Arno to the position of the later Gothic Line; but...

Great pilot view for take off. It would be even better with a Merlin - Not!

Griffon was a naval contract - needed for a two seat fighter, the Royal Navy's preference, to even approach the performance of a single seater.

I remember a novel from thirty-odd years ago where Hitler is captured and Stalin keeps him naked in a small cage.

You need to kill more than just Mitchell and Shenstone; there is a whole design TEAM. T. Westbrook also went to the US, Alf Faddy drew up the elliptical wing, etc. Plus the Board knew Mitchell had cancer and was a deadman walking, they will have had a Plan B to replace him. The most likely...