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  1. Dies the Fire - Societies

    Twin Falls was part of New Desert, the Mormon state. In fact New Desert is an example of a society that replacated itself (save the change from guns to sword/bows as troop arms). Corvallis is also, insofar as is possible, a duplication of an idealized University town of the middle ages. It...
  2. WI Soviets intervene militarily in Yom Kippur War?

    The U.S. also had moved the 6th Fleet into a position to interdict any Soviet attempt to intervene at the same time that the U.S. established it's own airbridge to resupply the IDF from Reforger stocks in Germany. The Americans and Soviets both decided that blowing the world up over this war...
  3. WI missiles instead of airforces.

    Scuds are also hellishly difficult to move across broken terrain and are, in fact, roadbound in any area except a hard packed desert region. Given the utter lack of decent roads in ANY part of Vietnam outside of the major cities, and the absolute control of the air enjoyed by the U.S. in Vietnam...
  4. WI missiles instead of airforces.

    The West helps finance the sales? Missiles are one shot & done systems. That is fine for a nuke or a biological weapon, but for conventional (and most chemical) weapons it is a huge waste of resources. You can fire a Scud with a single 2,000 lb warhead, or even a squadron of a dozen Scuds with...
  5. Arnold Stays Loyal AKA The Anti-Federalists worst nightmare

    Well, that is one of the more depressing (although well done) POD's I've read in a while. Fight the Revolution to get rid of Royality and then run right back into the burning barn. Pity.
  6. WI alexander lived on

    Unless he's a LOT smarter than any other conqueror in history his reach finally exceeds his grasp and he loses it all to someone smarter, luckier, or faster.
  7. Later German Reunification Navy

    Interesting design exercise. No possible reason for actual construction of anything bigger than a DDG, but some fine drawings.
  8. All or nothing, Pacific defence.

    The A-31 did provide good service in Burma & the Vindicator did good service in the secondary theaters as well. Neither was up to the SBD standard (which is not surprising, as the Dauntless was one of the success stories of the war). At Midway, the VMSB commander had to order his pilots to...
  9. Stalin invades Iceland and Greenland in 1940

    Damned straight!! :D
  10. All or nothing, Pacific defence.

    While all of the aircraft mentioned would have been of great use (especially compared to no aircraft at all), only the SBD and P-40 could be considered to be respectable "go to" aircraft of their respective type. The remaining aircraft all had significant drawbacks. The fact that the USN...
  11. Mission Accomplished

    If the Bush vision of the post Iraq intervention world came about? Freely elected, open govenments across the Middle East. Secular states, with freedom of religion, everywhere in the region, spreading across the Islamic world. Peace in the Middle East. On-going free flow of oil from the...
  12. United States Alternate History

    Without going into much depth, despite the temptation, I have to agree with the statement that you have the presidency following far too close a course to OTL. The minute you have GEORGE WASHINGTON...
  13. Did tornadoes and hurricaines retard ancient civilisations ?

    Those specific events? Tornadoes are unlikely to have had a significant effect. The region of the U.S. where 90%+ (IIRC) of the world's tornadoes occur in the Great Plains. Until the advent of the steel sod cutter for plows the Great Plains was more or less impossible to farm and was sparsely...
  14. What if The Japanese won WWII?

    And of course the USAAF, USN, RCAF possessed ANY long range air assets, nor did they fly training missions or test flights out ovver the Pacific at any point. The entire point, which seems to be missed here, is that we are talking 1941, not 2007 or even 1961. The refueling of escort ships was...
  15. What if The Japanese won WWII?

    Are you familiar withe Monroe Doctrine? You are very correct that the U.S. doesn't want to fight along it's own shores. The best way to ensure this is to keep an enemy several thousand miles away. ANY Japanese invasion of B.C. (even if they COULD have projected force that far, which they...
  16. Could America Have Gotten Involved in WW1 Early?

    Better question is on which side? Supporting the British was not exactly a slam dunk, not in 1914.
  17. Virginia does not secede from the Union

    If Virginia stays loyal, the CSA effectively collapses within a few months. It would have just the Carolina's, Georgia, Mississippi, probably Louisiana & Florida, and MAYBE Texas. Without the remaining states, the Mississippi Valley members of the CSA fall very quickly, isolating Texas, which...
  18. What if is there was no WW1 or WW2?

    The changes caused by eliminating the two largest events of the 20th century are incalcluable. Simply preventing the deaths of 50 million people is so profound of a change that the face of history is altered beyond all comprehension. How many great artists, researchers, political leaders...
  19. WI Chemical Warfare Used in WWII

    As noted earlier in this thread, the use of blistering agents would have been at least as damaging in purely military terms as a nerve agent. Given the much longer persistance (generally a factor of between 3 and 6 times) of blistering agents, particularly nitrogen mustard, when compared to 1st...
  20. Sunrise Lands Speculation

    It was SUPPOSED to be out this weekend. However, it appears that Stirling's Emberverse lacks the pull of Harry Potter's juggernaut and the stores put TSL on the shelves early.
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