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  1. Napoleon dies 1807, who takes power in France

    Napoleon's son and legitimate heir was not born until 1811, he did have a bastard son from a mistress at this point. Let's say Napoleon dies after Tilst. What happens with the succession? Is this a Neo-Diadochi scenario between various Bonapartist claimants (brothers etc) with factions of the...
  2. SealTheRealDeal

    Horse mounted infantry for COIN

    or Portugal and China for that matter...
  3. What were the biggest tech and weapon mistakes and missed opportunities of Germany in ww2

    Never built in enough numbers to have a real effect. (Yes, I know, Japanese, so unlikely to ever have much outnumbered the P-76, let alone the B-24.) I'll give you that one & accept the correction gladly. :)
  4. AHC: Unified French Mandate.

    AHC: With a POD after 1923 have the French Mandate that iOTL was split between Syria and Lebanon gain independence as one country (and remain that way for at least a year). For these purposes Lebanon includes all of its current territory and Syria must contain at least the Hama and Damascus...
  5. If Nazi Germany had had industrial parity in WWII, would they have won?

    Dude, Logistics is dictated by industry. Your infrastructure is dictated by your industry. Your rolling stock and trucks. Your ships and barges. Your loading stations and maintance shops. When you picture "industrial power", picture the well-maintaned train bringing you spare parts and supplies...
  6. Primavera d'Italia: War, Love and Revolution

    Contrary to what would be natural to think, I don't believe that even the Confederal approach will do much to keep regional dialects alive and kicking. The big game changers are mass education and urbanization (which cannot be avoided), and are ultimately byproducts of the industrial...
  7. WI: The Soviet Union survived as a rump state in Central Asia?

    The prospect of the Rump USSR offering SSR membership to Russia's disaffected ethnic minorities like the Chechens, Dagestanis and Tatars as a soft power weapon they can use to destabilize the Russian Federation is such an interesting concept. Azerbaijan was also extremely supportive of...
  8. Place In the Sun: What If Italy Joined the Central Powers?

    Well, it depends on if the combatants have an ideological capacity for a tie. I'm not sure a communist france could accept a 'tie' with the bourgois pig germans.
  9. Challenge: Cistercian numerals replace Arabic numerals

    Not necessarily. Instead of having a four-digit number written as a horizontal line of four symbols, you effectively have them in a 2x2 box. And it's easier in that you can tell where the zeroes are and there's only one symbol per digit (no VIII's for 8).
  10. BELFAST

    If Nazi Germany had had industrial parity in WWII, would they have won?

    Indeed, What are logistics? industrial power allows you to make lots and lots of weapons etc. But does not help with logistics. The more weapons you supply the more strain you put in logistics in the field. Logistics makes sure you can deliver them to where they are needed and supply and...
  11. WI: The Soviet Union survived as a rump state in Central Asia?

    This had absolutly nothing to do with any "legalese". Recognition of countries and their obligations and privileges is a purely political consideration. Taiwan was allowed to sit on the council as long as it was politically beneficial for the others, and dropped the second this was no longer true.
  12. AHC: Stop the Confederacy from seceding

    I think that the big problem for Lincoln in this scenario is Dred Scott. If the free state/slave state distinction only applies to the buying and selling of slaves, and not the holding of slaves, it essentially renders the entire debate moot. And good God, can you imagine what kind of a powder...
  13. Challenge: Cistercian numerals replace Arabic numerals

    I feel like they work similar to Roman numerals, which I assume were replaced for a reason with Arabic numerals.
  14. A7 Corsair II kills the A10 program

    The FB-111A (later reconfigured to the primary TAC role as the B-1B reached squadron service as F-111G) assigned to SAC had a primary task of nuclear weapons delivery (given SAC's entire reason to exist as a separate command), those in TAC, primarily, but not exclusively, F-111F had a primary...
  15. The purpose of the COVID-19 pandemic

    I like the idea of a Draconic scientist
  16. The purpose of the COVID-19 pandemic

    Its none of the above, you fool. Its a plot by JFK(the same guy who did 9/11)to return the old Hyperborean god by emptying the Street and taking your liquid as sacrifices.
  17. haider najib

    Es Geloybte Aretz Continuation Thread

    @carlton_bach by just want to state im not trying to be rude or trying to complain. quite the opposite im not asking for the ottomans to retake andalusia, it should be getting its ass handed to it so yeah sorry if i came across rude or mean. Im basing on the fact i think the first ottoman update...
  18. WI: The Soviet Union survived as a rump state in Central Asia?

    Depends on where the nukes go, I think. IOTL, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan retained nuclear arms until the Budapest Memorandum (and the Ukrainians have come to rue that treaty since 2014...). Kazakhstan surrendered its to Russia in April of 1995. Would it still do so ITTL? It would be...
  19. The Plantagenet Succession

    Demonise? Demonise? No - she just wanted the words "We were wrong in all and every way" from her family; did she go about it right? Up for debate. Is she being vindictive and spiteful? Yes. Is she a bad person? No, she's just broken. Historically, they didn't - historically the Boleyns had an...
  20. How would Kennedy, Khrushchev, and their governments be remembered if the CMC went hot?

    I don't like to toot my own horn but as to how Kennedy would be remembered here is a quote from a statement I made on a thread addressing that entitled Voices of Doomsday.
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