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  1. What if Edward IV lived to the end of 1483?

    Nope. Edmund was in the Tower, executed in 1513 on the dying orders of Henry VII, alongside his brother Humphrey. William de la Pole, who should've been 4e duke of Suffolk, was kept in the Tower until his death of natural causes in 1539 (AIUI he remains the holder of the record of the person...
  2. TheSwedishHistorian

    AHC: As big a Eurozone as possible

    Norway could have joined the EU and the Euro pretty easily, same with Iceland. The UK is one country that would really benefit from it but it is hard to see. Perhaps a more orderly exit from Algeria by the French and they keep their currency connected to the euro. Not really part of the...
  3. A Queen Twice Over: Mary Tudor the Elder Marries Francis I of France

    Ooh Happy Birthday, I hope you have a fantastic day!
  4. GauchoBadger

    Vietnam, a unwinnable war?

    We have to take into account the nature of guerrilla war in these circumstances. The US and ARVN prepared themselves for a conventional war, expecting the VC to eventually concentrate their forces for a decisive battle as was the experience from Korea. That did happen unexpectedly in the Tet...
  5. FalconHonour

    A Queen Twice Over: Mary Tudor the Elder Marries Francis I of France

    Well, as someone else once said, besotted Henry is the worst Henry. I'm playing up to that here... She does indeed - the Succession has never been more secure! Unfortunately the fall is quite some way off yet... Thank you! I see what you mean, but I was going for the fact that her brother...
  6. Best accidental president

    Always wondered how a young Nixon as presidident would have been. Early 40s, no 1960 election to haunt him, or the failed run in California for Governor. How would the 50s have been different?
  7. Sārthākā

    Prince Waldemar of Prussia made King of Nepal in 1845

    Obviously nepal won't stay shut off from the rest of the world like it did from 1846 - 1951. So i suspect Prussian militarism may be mixed in with generic Nepalese militarism and British and German influence may mix itself with nepalese culture like it did in the chinese capitulation cities
  8. The Forge of Weyland

    If memory serves they gave meth to their infantry in the form of biscuits as well as their Luftwaffe pilots in the form of a tablet. Also they mixed it in with the chocolate and biscuits that gave them to the civilian sides. Though the practice was discontinued during the German operation into...
  9. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    Think a commander would want something with a bit more protection if going near the front. Plus the universal carrier is just too small especially if you have a couple of ww2 size radio's installed.
  10. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    Mind you that being said....they were learning how to modern soldier at the time Part of the mind set might have been a desire for the commander to (or at least seen to) be leading from the front (rightly or wrongly)
  11. AHC: Germanic but not Englidh England

    What about some Low Franconian speakers or some Proto Norse group? Say the Anglo Saxons go somewhere else and Danes go to England. Jutland ends up Frisian or Old Saxon speaking while England has a sister language to Scandinavian languages
  12. Prince Waldemar of Prussia made King of Nepal in 1845

    Culturally too i wonder what will ends up being the nepalese culture ittl with the obvious european influence pouring in into the country?
  13. Nyegosh

    A European "China"?

    Perhaps the Romans invent the heavy plough, which would immediately shift their power to Gaul, and allow the full integration of Germania. Long-term, however, a Rome that powerful would withstand the barbarian invasions and probably integrate eastern Europe, and simply due to the chernozem the...
  14. AHQ/AHC: Ideal modern tank design?

    It is of course possible to re-look the Chrysler TV-8 design. As a matter of fact, it has a lot of the suggestions above incorporated. OK, one thing: forget the nuclear-powered version. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_TV-8 i quote from wiki: "Using an unconventional tank design, the...
  15. How accurate is the description of the Naval War in the Atlantic in Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising"?

    Oh totally - I was being Eurocentric in my answer regarding the Central German plane suddenly going radioactive and covered in Nerve gas
  16. What were the biggest tech and weapon mistakes and missed opportunities of Germany in ww2

    keep the entire surface fleet in home waters and Norway, capture Svalbard/Spitsbergen, make Leningrad a priority initially so as to use Baltic as supply route. my vote would be build a modified HE-111 for cargo duty, of course there are better options on drawing board but the 111 seems more viable.
  17. WI: Socialist Germany & Fascist Russia

    Since you tend to write magnificent TLs, I'll try to be more constructive here and attempt to picture both a socialist Germany within what parameters I anticipate you aim for, and a "fascist" Russia within what parameters I anticipate you aim for, too. Since you were open for a more democratic...
  18. What if the U.S. outsourced manufacturing to post-Soviet Russia instead of China?

    Huh. I knew that Russians usually had smaller wages even in times when their GDP per capita was similar to Poland's (I guess more of the money landing in oligarch pockets), but that's quite bad. Did Russia have free currency exchange rate back then?
  19. AHQ/AHC: Ideal modern tank design?

    Serious answer time. For an MBT I think an unmanned turret with a large autoloading smoothbore (140mm) leveraging Case Telescoped ammunition technology in a carousel with a secondary 40mm CTA gun in an independent mount / or possibly coax along with MMG and possible AGL remote mounts The tank...
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