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  1. AHC/WI: land focused Netherlands

    The English are more successful in the Anglo-Dutch wars early on, thus forcing the Dutch merchant fleet off the open oceans and limiting them to purely coastal trade.
  2. An Imperial Match: Anne Boleyn marries Charles V

    That will not be enough for getting a match between Eleanor and John. Either they are already married when Charles refuted Isabella or Manuel need to die earlier
  3. Hearts of Iron IV "Fictionalization."

    And for mexico mexican character from red dead 1 could be used like abraham reyes and de santa
  4. Hearts of Iron IV "Fictionalization."

    Isnt ostap bender russian?
  5. WI: Vikings (re)-introduces horses to North America around 1000AD

    I think it actually work best with a smaller breed, they could find enough food in the densely forested east coast.
  6. WI: Vikings (re)-introduces horses to North America around 1000AD

    Pony-sized horses weren't a thing in medieval times, really. People had horses for two reasons 1) farming and 2) combat, and both a plow horse and a war horse had to be as large as possible. Yes, the Norse had ships capable of transporting horses, BUT: it is difficult to transport horse/cattle...
  7. Kynan

    An Imperial Match: Anne Boleyn marries Charles V

    It could just be as simple as Maria living another year or two.
  8. Down in Dixie: CSA Victory TL

    Wasn't Jesse James becoming an outlaw IOTL a result of having been a member of the pro-confederate bushwhackers guerrillas, who, after ending up on the losing side of the Civil War, couldn't find their way back into civil society and went on to become ordinary criminals. Wouldn't being on the...
  9. Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God: A History of the True Whigs

    For the butterflies, there are good arguments to be made. After all, anything happening in Liberia is a pretty small deal on the world stage, so things would mostly carry on as otl. And you did avoid specific names for people who weren't born yet, so that also helps. And besides, karma always...
  10. AHC/WI: land focused Netherlands

    That's not going to happen. And even if by some military stroke of fortune they manage to take over control of the whole area, they would quickly become more mercantile in their outlook. That after all is where money can be made. Of course, the Netherlands could be more land-oriented if the...
  11. Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God: A History of the True Whigs

    That's far too kind a comparison but glad to have you aboard. Enjoyed your ongoing commentary on the French occupation. A lot of butterflies had to be sacrificed to make it happen but I liked the idea of the French inadvertently investing hugely in Liberia and then losing everything they built...
  12. No Kriegsmarine cruisers or modern destroyers

    Destroyers are expendable warships*. So long as they achieve their mission losses are both expected and up to a point tolerable. And if the mission is critical to the war effort, then a very heavy loss rate is acceptable. * Ultimately so are cruisers and capital ships. As the RN, USN and...
  13. Basileus_Komnenos

    WI: Vikings (re)-introduces horses to North America around 1000AD

    probably. But that's still better than having no beasts of burden at all. Though honestly continued Viking settlement in North America is interesting.
  14. What if NAZI Germany didn’t build battleships?

    ...in time from knowledge that can't have had. Hell in the mid 30's for all Germany knows it needs Battleships to counter an expanded French Navy*! (let alone the RN). I mean yes France vs. Germany is always going to be primarily land based confrontation, but Germany remembers what being...
  15. WI: Byzantine Emperor converts to Islam?

    I mean Leo III bought iconoclasm and it was just agianst icons and that was hated the only reason it lasted a century or close to it was because leo III and Constantine V were excellent emeperors that gave the emperire much victories and stability even then they didn't win out and that was just...
  16. VPrinciples

    Hearts of Iron IV "Fictionalization."

    I'm thinking Ostap Bender, Speedy Gonzales, and Three Amigos.
  17. WWII: German Victory in Battle of Britain, could USSR win alone?

    Quite probably. Any deal Hitler would realistically offer would still leave Germany dominating Europe through puppet regimes. So from the British point of view it would be like the Treaty of Amiens in the Napoleonic wars. Something Perfidious Albion would throw over when convenient. Once it...
  18. WI: Vikings (re)-introduces horses to North America around 1000AD

    I imagine these horses will be small, something like a Shetland pony
  19. No Kriegsmarine cruisers or modern destroyers

    Except that two months later Germany completed the conquest of France & the Low Countries and with them the iron ore fields of Alsace-Lorraine & Luxembourg. Admittedly, Swedish iron ore had about twice the metal content as the iron ore mined in France & Luxembourg, but these countries produced...
  20. WWII: German Victory in Battle of Britain, could USSR win alone?

    Even if it happens, it will be hard to keep the UK out of the war after Hitler invades the USSR. The UK will support the USSR with weapons. And if convoys to Murmansk are attacked, it will provoke a response.
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