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  1. An Age of Miracles Continues: The Empire of Rhomania

    "One must remember that the difference between a fleet commander and a privateer is simply who owns the ship. As a result, it doesn't hurt to learn from the tactics of the pirate or privateer - if you can use your wits and guile to replace your ship with your enemies more powerful ship, then do...
  2. The New Kratocracy: A Boulanger Coup TL

    Glad to see this back ... I was just re-reading the TL last week.
  3. Could the USSR work well enought on its orthodox form to be a pleasant place in modern day?

    1) PRAVDA was complaining about inaccurate statistics even under Brezhnev. The Soviet system was highly corrupt and bribe taking was endemic. Slip someone a few hundred rubles and he will say that he received products he didn't receive. The boss is going to lie about it anyhow. There were limits...
  4. TheMann

    Go North, Young Man: The Great Canada

    Both, for the most part. Winnipeg Union Station is bigger than OTL because of greater demand for intercity passenger travel so it takes up more room, but the human rights museum is on the other side of the Red River so there is plenty of room. The Forks Market area includes all of the usual...
  5. WI: Japan never modernizes

    It needs to be noted that Japan before Perry arrival in 1853 was highly developed Asian society before Commodore Perry arrival in 1853. Japan before Meiji Restoration already had a developed economy and flourishing arts, culture and intellectual development in the country. Even during Sakoku...
  6. Keynes' Cruisers Volume 2

    Nothing hit by 3 or more fish (that as Fester says explodes) in a single attack in WW2 did not ultimately sink (ie touched the seabed) Maybe a Yamato 'might' survive 3 fish but I seriously doubt it. Certainly not surviving 6!
  7. Soviets beat Northrop with F-20 idea?

    Two engines and engines' management, cross-flow fuel system, rough-field undercarriage, bigger allowance for weight and space for cannons and ammo. The jump from Galeb/Jastreb to Orao was a big jump. Radar suite is what Soviets will be doing.
  8. As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux

    Speaking of the Columbia House Video Club, are there any other animated shows that got the luxury of being sold through said club?
  9. These Fair Shores: The Commonwealth of New England

    Oh cool it gets worse. Again, isolationism is an understandable reaction to that! Eeesh! It's funny, I don't think I've ever seen a TL where America gets humiliated this way. See it destroyed, stillborn or become an awful dictatorship, but never had its cultural treasures looted like this! Very...
  10. Could the USSR work well enought on its orthodox form to be a pleasant place in modern day?

    I agree fully with your first paragraph. For the second, it depends? Do we judge an economic system based on its results in terms of just economics, or do we need to look at it in a political sense because of how the Cold War politicised and juxtaposed the two economic systems. In terms of...
  11. David Flin

    "If They Want It They Can Have It": Ulster's Tragedy.

    The Irish Army was not a large force. In 1972, it was less than 10,000 strong, and had detachments serving as UN Peacekeepers in Cyprus and the Middle East. In 1970, the General Staff of the Irish Army said: "there would not be more than 2,500 line troops available to be mustered, organised...
  12. What if the Mark 71 8"/55 gun wasn't cancelled?

    If its performing NGS then it is operating in a littoral environment and therefore needs to be able to defend itself verses a swarm - note 'defend itself' not seek out and wipe out the local sea borne militia. Modern operations are not going to allow unguided rockets (I am not familiar with 8"...
  13. The Decade of Disaster: What if the Franco-Prussian War Escalated? (relaunched)

    At first I thought that said "British arrogance casual." Which I guess is a more avant-garde way of saying the same thing.
  14. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    I'm old enough to have played the original 5.25" Floppy games in the School Computer Lab, LOL. Yea, I can see Henson supporting this for sure, probably as an animated edutainment series rather than a "game Show". He'd probably like the neo-noir angle and definitely like the diverse cast. Glad...
  15. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    I'd very much doubt it in china. Who would the entente support that the US wouldn't? AFAIK both will be pretty happy to stomp the PLA into the ground.
  16. WI: Free Italy - a.k.a. Kingdom of Italy in exile as an Allied nation

    Ehy glad to have you back and sorry for the work situation. Back to business IMVHO there are two things to point: 1- While at the time the Red Army general performance made the OTL Italians look professional and the Stalin military leadership was nothing to write about; Germany will be very hard...
  17. List of monarchs III

    Henry I is Henry the Bearded, Henry II is Henry the Pious, Henry III is Henry the Valois, so he's IV - Hohenzollerns used their Silesian Piast ancestry a lot in XVIIIth century, so this is a nod to those monarchs.
  18. Denliner

    Moonlight in a Jar: An Al-Andalus Timeline

    Not to mention that there's a possibility that Muslims and Christians will be more numerous since preachers would have to compete with each other lest they lose Japan to the infidels. With increased trade and influx of new ideas from Europe, I could definitely see Japan be a lot more...
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