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  1. McPherson

    Mackensen class battlecruisers in WW1

    Sigh. Battleships are vulnerable. Sort of like tanks without infantry bodyguards if you are a landlubber. IF you are going to postulate Hipper's forces trying to fight Evans Thomas, then you have to ascertain what the British scout, protected and armored cruisers and destroyers of the era are...
  2. AHC: Shia "Ottomans", Sunni Iran

    Large parts of Iran ( such as the Caspian coast, Azerbaijan, Alborz mountains, and Luristan) were already majority Shia when the Safavids rose to power. Also, the Safavids weren't the first Shia dynasty in Iran
  3. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    Also, the British are pumping out Jerrycans like crazy.
  4. Sphenodon

    Place In the Sun: What If Italy Joined the Central Powers?

    I do not understand why the semantics of a decidedly pre-1900 conflict have occupied so much discussion in a thread devoted to an unrelated post-1900 PoD. Regarding the story - looks like U.S.-Mexico relations are going to be substantially worse geopolitically than in OTL, as well as Mexico's...
  5. The Undying Empire: A Trebizond Timeline

    I choose option B. Delayed gratification always works for me.
  6. AHC: Save a notorious flop

    I'm the only one I know who loved FFSW, but I think the script was too preachy. Look at Avatar, which covered some of the same ground without alienating the audience. Including some more nuance and less black and white morality would work. Also, maybe include a bit more humor. Yes, it's post...
  7. at U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787, northern states engage in brinksmanship and get deal on phase out of slavery by southern states

    https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2010/spring/newnation.html Yes, the South had a leading role for quite a while (but in the areas which they didn’t, this seemed to really worry the southern oliogarchs!).
  8. When could an independent/unified Ireland happened?

    You would probably have gotten it by the 1870s or so. And it would be a united Ireland, which I thought was the main point.
  9. Sārthākā

    Place In the Sun: What If Italy Joined the Central Powers?

    Liverpool and Parliament had assumed that New Orleans had already fallen when they gave the orders. Which is why they were so surprised when they found out that they occupied nothing to give back. Your point does not stand with historical facts. When Lord Castlereagh and Lord Sidmouth asked to...
  10. The New Order: Last Days of Europe Thread II

    I wonder what would be the interactions with Oktan and Werbell
  11. Mackensen class battlecruisers in WW1

    This post invokes the battle of Surigao Straight, the one before that invoked Dogger Bank, and the one before that invoked the naval battle of Guadalcanal. I’m convinced you’re just naming random famous naval battles at this point. It’s not helpful. Like Surigao Straight was a night battle where...
  12. As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux

    Voted for both of them.
  13. Crazy Boris

    Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    ...Or maybe people just use the most common projection used at the time because its the most common projection used at the time, since Mercator is great for navigation and navigation was the primary usage of maps for a long time. Occam's Razor; what makes more sense: people use it because it's...
  14. Place In the Sun: What If Italy Joined the Central Powers?

    My point is that had the British succeeded in taking New Orleans those orders simply would not have applied, because they would have accomplished the war’s strategic aim by crippling the US’ expansion, and therefore would have either tried to control the city at all costs or simply pushed for a...
  15. As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux

    Here's a new poll: https://forms.gle/L6ZeGv4h71g4gM6r6
  16. VaultJumper

    How would you make a a milirary democratic?

    true that's true I guess that would make them better defensive forces than offensive ones.
  17. Aghasverov

    Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    Well, the use of the Mercator as a general-purpose map is certainly problematic and misleading, and has no doubt led to false conceptions in many peoples' heads about spatial relationships... That being said... sadly the "Mercator" is the only projection that many, even educated people, can name...
  18. McPherson

    What were the biggest tech and weapon mistakes and missed opportunities of Germany in ww2

    https://www.britannica.com/science/salt-dome/Origin-of-salt-domes No. I am referring to the Japanese attempt to duplicate VHC without nickel. Not a thing contradicts what I noted. Yes. It goes directly to refining oil. Night vision equipment is no-big deal. The US stuff worked. How did the...
  19. Sārthākā

    Deaths from Irish potatoe famine mitigated

    No it didn't. Allocating 60% of the entire country's agrarian budget and feeding 3 million mouths per day for 2 years straight and ignoring the European famine's deaths in England, Wales and Scotland to feed Ireland is not what we call 'Let em Starve'. Despite popular misconceptualization of the...
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