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http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?384744-The-Audacity-of-Hope-An-Iroquois-IN-AAR Here you are lad. It just got me thinking of an intriguing idea.

This is a cool idea. It'd be like saying Scottish Gaelic/Irish survive in Canada, especially Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Barring the World Wars, it's quite possible I think for German to have a presence. I mean in OTL it still does, I shared a room with a lad from Minnesota whose...

The Incas seem to be a thread favourite already. In North America is it possible for the Cree, Iroquois, or others to fight back more effectively? I'm just trying to picture a beautiful map of the Americas split into different nations. The idea of Europeans confined east of the Appalachians is...

I read an AAR on EU III recently where a player managed to conquer most of North America as the Iroquois and fend off the Portuguese. Then I was reading works like Lands of Ice and Mice/Lands of Red and Gold got me to wondering, how possible would it be for a functioning nation or resistance be...

Well like RossN said, why should the Irish get the grubby end of the stick? I'm just a bit baffled as to why the better option is to oppress the majority of an island. It seems a bit too akin to the Victorian era scientific racism of the sort you'd see in caricatures in Punch and the like...

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/northern+ireland How? Northern Ireland is it's legal name, it's one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom. If I was a republican and saying "the Six Counties", "the North" or "North-East Ireland" then yes it would be vague.

Just like in Peloponnesian Greece you'd have had small groups of individuals wandering and plying the mercenary trade. For the purposes of recruitment though, they'd sign on with a company. A client isn't going to blow his cash buying half a thousand individuals when he could get a neatly...

That's why I said indirectly, it's always reared it's ugly head in some fashion. It's like the island has an obsession with it. Was hiking in the Mournes last weekend and had a pleasant chat with a group out walking till I was asked was I a Taig. :eek: Still considering back in the 1640s we'd...

Really when the question comes down to the majority or minority being oppressed, oppressing everyone seems to be the fairest answer. Hasn't the north of England always had a strong Catholic tradition? They even fought in the '45 half a century later. The Irish seemed to have been happy...

Aye, some good intelligence work stopped the big ones getting through which definitely helped it stay relatively low-key. The arms from the US and the continent were always enough to keep a constant supply and the conflict going but it was the larger shipments that could have tipped it over the...

The Irish Naval Service and Royal Navy were quite good at interdicting arms shipments coming into the island, the large ones especially. The Provos always had a steady supply trickling in but they never managed getting in "the big one". A few massive shipments from Libya were stopped and even...

Ulster is nine counties mate, not just the North. Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal are in there as well. Still have some of the old iodine tablets and stuff like that at home. My mother remembers all these leaflets that were handed out advising people to hide under the stairs and stuff. I...

Sounds the fairest for everyone. You seem to view James like Bloody Mary or the Duke of Alba in the Netherlands. James was far from a saint but point out a ruler in Europe that was at the time. Monarchies are a horrible form of governance but oppressing the majority of a foreign island is...

Ouch. That's harsh. At the very least t'would be good for Ireland and the Highlands! And probably less harsh than the Ascendancy in Ireland. Just on the makeup of William's troops. I know at Limerick much of the elite were the Dutch, Danish and Germans. How many of his soldiers would...

I wouldn't pick the Boyne as the critical or focal point. In OTL it was a skirmish, with few casualties on both sides in relation to the size of the armies deployed. The only reason its considered so lofty is the Orange Order commemorating it as Catholic cowardice and not wanting to choose a...

Philip II had had a weak claim as the spouse of Mary. But he was dead....so perhaps a Spanish takeover of England could work?

Urgh. Irish please, not Gaelic. Gaelic ain't a language unless you're referring to the derivative tongue Scots Gaelic. Would something akin to Scotland be a marker? I know Wales was a lot more fragmented at this time but you do have Cambro-Normans and Scot-Normans from encroaching north and...

Are to assume then that Northumbria would expand westward? To take on the Hen Ogledd in the British kingdoms? How long did the northern British kingdoms survive for in OTL? I imagine they'd be an easier nut to crack than rival Saxon kingdoms or heading north against the Picts or Gaels. Though...

Ireland was bloody expensive though. She had 18,000 soldiers engaged in Ireland at the height of the Nine Years War, 6,000 more than she ever committed to the Low Countries. The Irish war was a thorn in her side all throughout, even if Spain failed to fully take advantage of it. I feel myself...

I always found the parallels between Stilicho and Aetius fascinating. How both were so similar in their efforts to preserve the empire but damned for it. The "Last of the Romans" tag just adds to the romanticism. Yet Stilicho seems to be remembered as a traitor while Aetius is feted as a...