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  1. Mongol invasion of western Europe

    Lots of mountains, lots forests, lots of rain, lots of rivers, and lots of castles. Thats pretty much the argument on the "the Mongols would've been fucked" side. Of course Asia had no rivers, mountain, or forests. Castles are purely defensive structures if you lack mobility equal to or...
  2. World where Quebec voted to leave but Ottawa won't let them

    That's a BIT harsh. Isn't it a good thing that we have Straha & the other younger board members here to keep the fresh ideas coming? @ Straha: Hemp Brownies? :eek: As I recall: my favorite solution to every problem was a bigger hammer until I hit my 30's.:D
  3. Mongol invasion of western Europe

    The Channel. The Baltic. The Med. What western Civilization? What's Christianity? Holy Roman What? BTW: what language is that you are speaking?
  4. Railway artillery

    True, but it was not quite the same thing. A bit of "wog bashing" (to use the charming terminolgy of the era) is a good deal different than the organized bombardment of other WHITES. Beating the snot out of "savages" was accepted, since it was all part of civilizing them (i.e. stealing them...
  5. Is Our TL highly Probable Or Aberant?

    I would say that there is virtually zero chance that OTL would reoccur if somehow a replay was done. Too many events that are unique and are very subject to butterflies 1. Human race - Current evidence suggests that at one point the species was down to a few hunderd individuals. Almost didn't...
  6. Iran Captures Special Forces, January 2005

    With any luck at all, the U.S. puts paid to the bill we still owe for the Embassy takeover in '79, all the support the Iranians have given to terrorists (like the ones who blew up the barracks in Beruit), the export of Jihad, etc. Almost too bad it didn't happen (almost). If the U.S. HAD to...
  7. US heavy WW2 tank

    There is also American tactical doctrine - American tanks were infantry support weapons, designed to help with strong points. Anti tank was a the mission of special tank destroyer units (good plan? Bad plan? regardless it was THE plan). Once US troops got in Europe proper and started to run into...
  8. World where Quebec voted to leave but Ottawa won't let them

    How nuts are the folks in Quebec? If they decide on an armed rising you would possibly see some type of peacekeepers (ANZAC perhaps or Scandinavian?) if ths Canadian Government requested it. Much more likely that RCMP & the Canadian Army (which is specifically trained in peacekeeping) simply go...
  9. Railway artillery

    There would be a couple of major obstacles to successfully use of WWI style railway guns in the 1850-1880’s. The first is metallurgy; the techniques needed to cast long steel weapons barrels had not been invented yet. Cannon were still brass & cast iron during the US Civil war (and attempts to...
  10. A Different North America

    The representation change won't work. "There are essentially two ways spelled out in the Constitution for how it can be amended. One has never been used. The first method is for a bill to pass both halves of the legislature, by a two-thirds majority in each. Once the bill has passed both...
  11. WI: Vichy France Fights...

    Why? The French forces in AFRICA (!) decide to fight the allies and this changes the minds of all in France that the Boche are okay. What did the Allies do? Impale every french citizen in Africa, The British Empire & the United States, film it and send the movie to every theater in France...
  12. Mosley, Mussolini and the Kaiser vs. Stalin and the French

    Perhaps I missed it, but... If the Germans have advanced to Paris, the BEF & the French Army are at the point of revolt, and British & French home front's are at least as bad as Germany's why would the Germans withdraw to their 1914 borders, give up their colonies, and watch their main ally...
  13. WI Japan attacks Russia in June of 1941

    I agree that Pearl Harbor was inevitable once the Jpanese High Command decided to attack the East Indies. The Japanese government would not, however, have had sufficient troops to attack anywhere once the Red Army had finished with them. No ground troops, different commanders (seppuku as...
  14. WI Japan attacks Russia in June of 1941

    As stated by myself & several others, Japan could not, short of massive troop support from the West (which was NOT going to happen) or the intervention of ASB's handle the USSR. The Sovs, with their combined arms operations, were a full generation ahead of the Japanese on the ground. The air is...
  15. WI Japan attacks Russia in June of 1941

    The Japanese could NOT avoid war with the US without suffering huge loss of face, not to mention all the gains that they had won by force of arms in China. US embargo = No Oil, No Steel, No Anything. Japan lacks the resources to make war without the US or, alternatively, the East Indies & South...
  16. Interesting side-effect of German victory in WWI

    Truer words have seldom been written. This tread has evolved into a debate on the strengths of the US vs. the UK. Somehow the initial idea of what political effect of a victorious Germany would have had. I guess I will take advantage and weigh in on both. :D On the subject of relative...
  17. Take Your Oil & Lubricate It Where It Fits!

    I also had a 70's muscle car(used sadly, but i was too young to cash in on them when they were new), could pass anything on the road but a gas station. I always thought they should make a fuel truck an option you could get at purchase time. Some of the larger SUV's are the same way...
  18. Airships not BBS

    The Airship was a fad, useful only until Heavier Than Air technology improved. The Germans HAD Zeps at Jutland, but the weather prevented them from taking part. That is just one problem with the Airship, the weather plays hell with them. Both American rigids died from weather. (BTW: the Akron &...
  19. What if not democracy (taken from another thread)

    If the U.S imploded shortly after the revolution the result would have most likely been a New England rump USA with many of the remaining ex-colonies returning to the Mother Country. I can see Virginia becoming a serarate country that eventually stretches to the Ohio if not the Mississippi.
  20. Challenge: The United Arab Republic

    Keep the UAR together? Win the 6 Day war, with Egypt as the lead power. Win the Yom Kipper war. As long as Egypt & the rest of the Arab states are getting the snot kicked out of them by Israel, no major political unification will survive. Now, of course, it's impossible since Egypt & Jordan...
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