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There where quite a few struggles between the Free French officers. Both the Americans and the British would have preferred general Henri Giroud, who was much more agreeable. Perhaps the Anglosaxons would have demanded that he should be in command. Another possibility could be the defection...

I agree with the Belgians. How about colonials in general? Evil pseudo-aristocrats dressed in white-linen suit and Pith helmet. They can be supported by savage natives or the unwashed dregs from society usually ending up in the colonial armies of the 19th century.

@ Danthi.. Heron is the proper Greek form of a Greek inventor, although English mangles it to Hero. Nero however is a Latin name and is spelled corectly. Difference between Greek and Latin grammar. On topic: interesting developments, even if gravity could easily furfill the role you use the...

I doubt the Entente would have allowed Germany to go communist. A communist coup would probably lead to a bloody civil war, with Britain, France, Italy and perhaps even Poland supporting anyone whose not commie. Should communism prevail, which I personally doubt, the Netherlands where the...

How about the Radziwill-family? Powerful native family with connections to the Habsburgs and (later) the Hohenzollerns. I don't know if they would be considered 'kingly' material, but their western connection could go a long way to forge alliances against the Russians.

Interesting read. Didn't the Romans use some kind of primitive steampump to keep mineshafts from flooding? A better machine would mean better mining too.

Would August von Mackensen work?

I think Berlin could be the size of London or Paris, about 10 million or so. The city would be a lot more 'Wilhelmine' in appearance.

It isn't just about the Atlantic. The colonizing powers of the 20th crntury could be divided in 3 categories: powers who had been colonizing since the 17th century and started building their Empires from existing trading posts, upstart new nations willing to grab anything they could get their...

The Habsburgs had an East India company operating from Oostende (Belgium). They even had a number of trading posts in SE Asia. The Dutch and English forced it to seize its operations.

Its your timeline, you can do with it whatever you like, but in my opinion it would require a PoD in the 17th century to make Austria a colonial power. I cannot see any plausibleway, or even slightly ASB way to give Austria a colony and I really tried to come up with a reasonable proposition for...

Difficult to say. According to most accounts the individual soldiers where very brave and elites like the Bersaglieri where effective if badly armed. Spain and Greece where no better AFAIK, but would presumably have the advantage of being the defending party.

I still don't think the old and venerable Empire would care about Italy controlling Somalia or Eritrea. They would invest the money in increasing their ports and fleet and laugh at Italies feeble attempts to look respectable. Only reasonable thing I can think of is that Austria would pilfer...

The horribly complicated political situation of the Empire would stimy any attempt. The Austrians where an old and respected great power. No need to push ones weight around like newcomers as Germany and Italy. The internal problems are too big to waste even a pfennig on some colony. No...

One of those nice quirks in history. Still, the Indonesian archipelago was dominated by the Dutch and English. The British would probably chased of the Baron if he had persisted in keeping the area.

King Willem I did refuse to accept Belgium independence till the day he stepped down. Kept the Netherlands on war footing too (harming the economy).

Personally I consider it ASB. Austria has no need and no desire for colonies. Britain would never allow the transfer of French Guyana (nor will the USA accept it) or New Caledonia (too close to Australia) to anyone but an ally. Tunisia is strategically too important for France and too big for...

I think Austria will win this one, as Cadorna was just as bad, if not worse than the Austrian leadership. Also, I think most Slavs prefer to fight for the devil they know than the devil they don't. Austria will do somewhat well untill Cadorna is replaced by Diaz. After that, and 20 or so battles...

Having a Germany capable of fighting a colonial war with Britain on equal footing, being able to keep their conquests after the British ship in reinforcements and being able to supply their people from Europe (colonial forces aren't self sustaining) would require a disaster for the British as...

Still, even with a stronger navy, I doubt Austria would desire a colony when their own Empire was fragile like hell. Should they desire concessions, it would be things like Veneto, Montenegro, a puppet in Serbia. Practical things like that.