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  1. What were the biggest tech and weapon mistakes and missed opportunities of Germany in ww2

    Not all developed/mass produced early on (but could have been) == if deployed from 'day one' against Soviets (troop concentrations / cities = Moscow, Stalingrad etc might well have fallen) .. whilst pointing out to Churchill how restrained the Luftwaffe had been NOT to use this against London...
  2. WIP Map Thread

    What's the premise for that? Wow, that Portugal is massive.
  3. Primavera d'Italia: War, Love and Revolution

    The thing is that the Hungarians lost their bid for independence, but then they remained at the top of the social pyramid in the Habsburg empire. The Croats in many ways saved the empire's bacon, but never got their own Slav kingdom in the empire. The problem was that in the lands under the...
  4. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    Many people have commented on how communism rose in poor countries while fascism rose in mostly already wealthy and industrialized countries. And then there is Argentina, which is an outlier in every single way: a first world country with third world forms of governance.
  5. Who could have been the most chaotic, insane and "lost" American president ever if elected?

    Is an alternate timeline with President Disney - dystopia!
  6. Feeble Constitution - A Red-and-Green Russia 1917 Timeline

    I don't believe power corrupts. I believe power attracts the corrupted. Yeah, this is definitely how ol'Ulyie would behave if he was forced to work in a mostly pluralistic and democratic society.
  7. AHQ: was Greece destined to be the cradle of European civilization?

    This is probably a too modern interpretation of geography. Greeks seem to be more interested in look East rather than West when it came to culture and what not. The Mediterranean as a geographically unit makes more sense in Ancient history given the difficulty of land travel. This isolated...
  8. Who could have been the most chaotic, insane and "lost" American president ever if elected?

    Why do documentary makers always stick music over the speech. I barely heard a word of what LeMay said.
  9. Explain the AH Quote

    Excerpt from "Memories of the King", in which Clement Attlee describes his last meeting with King Edward, whose scandals and shameless behavior would bring down the monarchy. "Evolution supports friendship. Only by joining together has mankind defeated the lions and tornados."
  10. What if the U.S. outsourced manufacturing to post-Soviet Russia instead of China?

    The Gulf War proved nothing of the sort. Iraq's equipment was largely obsolete in comparison to the latest Soviet gear (and a lot of it was sourced from China anyway), and Iraqi soldiers from their division commanders down to the privates were completely incompetent at actually using their kit...
  11. A European "China"?

    I think the three kingdoms period was the main cataclysm plus the universalist nature of the mandate of heaven allowed a lot of nobles adopt Chinese culture to get a shot for it.
  12. What were the biggest tech and weapon mistakes and missed opportunities of Germany in ww2

    NB - yes, the Brits will respond (or maybe not == OTL there was a lot of focus on battleships to the virtual exclusion of all else) to Nazi U-boat buding by putting more focus on convoy protection BUT the Royal Navy has many demands on it and, in 1933, can't just scrap all...
  13. What if the U.S. outsourced manufacturing to post-Soviet Russia instead of China?

    Even the western regions aren't dense. For example the Central Economic Region (the one including Moscow) has a population density of 63 people per square km. For example the Northeastern US has a population density double that, as do most of the other economically productive areas of the US.
  14. Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    Mark Hamill Former Pacific City midfielder turned Manager Mark Hamill known for his long stint at Midhampton City FC. Turning the once struggling Californian Third Division side into a First Division mainstay. He would win the Californian Cup with Midhampton City in 2010, 2012 and 2013...
  15. Dunkirk Disaster and colonies exchanged for withdrawal from France and Netherlands

    That isn't how things work you know. It isn't like "Well, we did the same thing, so fairs fair." They view the Germans, correctly, as an extensional threat to both the Empire and the freedom of Great Britain. This is not a game of EU4, but a conflict that has already claimed the lives of...
  16. Denliner

    Moonlight in a Jar: An Al-Andalus Timeline

    Romania probably will be the progenitor of ITTL movable-type for Christendom since they have the trade links with Al-Andalus over places like Germany or France. Imagine large swathes of scientific treatises, medical texts, and even illegal Bibles being printed in Occitan or Meridian (Sicilian)...
  17. McPherson

    Would Beria have been a good leader for the Soviet Union?

    Katyn was a botched mess. There is a "possibility" that the NKVD could have botched other operations. We also do not know what made Beria tick, not really. All we can do, is carbon and sediment date the dead discovered and do the forensics. I did write YMMV since I read the 40 to 50 year...
  18. Dunkirk Disaster and colonies exchanged for withdrawal from France and Netherlands

    That's forgetting that OTL, when the panzerdivisionen had overrun Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux etc..., during the armistice negotiations the French still refused to give up their fleet.
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