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  1. The Sudeten War: History of the World after an Alternate 1938

    I got it the first time. Probably the same reason most militaries keep "obsolete" planes around despite having "better" ones for the job: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Read it again, one more time: the He 280 under-performed. As development appears to have proceeded as OTL, it doesn't matter...
  2. AHC: Resurrection of Pantheistic Stoicism in the Middle Ages

    I always understood paganism as being polytheism which this isn't by definition. I wouldn't count something like Spinoza as being neo-paganism.
  3. Instead of launching Gettysburg Campaign, Lee relieves Vicksburg

    It's a long way from Virginia to Mississippi (literally 1000 miles from northern va to vicksburg going through A LOT of Appalachia). What's the largest functional armed force that has ever marched that far that fast?
  4. What were the biggest tech and weapon mistakes and missed opportunities of Germany in ww2

    they had torpedo issues https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1599&context=etd they schemed to use S-Boats as minelayers, and they proved effective, but could only carry 6 mines whereas the larger post-war version could carry 23...
  5. Alternate 'Battle of Midway': RN instead of USN, what's the result?

    Yes, but this situation is so extraordinary, that these circumstances don't necessarily apply. There could be all sorts of ASB scenarios which could account for RN instead of USN, but anything too extreme e.g. North America still part of the Empire to mean totally different aircraft. So, we...
  6. The Plantagenet Succession

    Edward IV recognized Tudor as a royal? When? And offering the title back doesn't mean that the dude being offered said title is royalty.
  7. Ottomans in CP Victory?

    That’s a fair point. Who’s consensus? Really? Who develops this oil for them? Who stops other countries... asking for it instead?
  8. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Back in the first thread it was Germany who came to support the Argentine government from an American backed military coup. Argentina at that time was neutral and during the Dewey Administration under the foreign policy direction of the Dulles Brothers (John Foster in State and Allen at the OSS)...
  9. The Plantagenet Succession

    Edward V’s father certainly did - he was getting ready to offer Henry his title back. Then he died and Richard buggered everything up IOTL. Not quite this version’s timeline of Henry VIII. He’s not married six times - just twice. And there’s no divorce. The Plantagenets improve as time goes on...
  10. Ottomans in CP Victory?

    What do the Germans offer the British if they refuse? What do they threaten them with once the shock of losing the War recedes and attitudes harden? Do we see an Anglo-German division of the Arab world as opposed to an Anglo-French one?
  11. AHC: Rename a country, that unified from a long-described region

    Purely as an interest in trivia, I decided to use Google translate to see what each language calls India. As far as I could tell, the Northern Indian (Indo-European) languages used a name derived from Bharat, as did Kannada and Telugu, the 2 more northern South Indian/Dravidian languages. The 2...
  12. Alternate 'Battle of Midway': RN instead of USN, what's the result?

    I suggest that you re-read Post 39 and read it more carefully than you did before writing the above. I haven't grouped Formidable, Illustrious, Indomitable and Victorious in the Indian Ocean. I've grouped Ark Royal, Formidable, Illustrious and Indomitable in the Indian Ocean...
  13. Ottomans in CP Victory?

    The Arab Revolt only succeeded because of huge British support. Without it it would not even have started in the first place. Consensus seems to be that if Ottomans survived ww1, they would have few issues surviving to the present. They were experiencing strong economic growth before ww1 and...
  14. Kantai Kessen

    Warships that survived World War Two and should have been museums!

    What about the heavy cruiser Suffren, or either of Duquesne and Tourville? Or even a La Galissonnière?
  15. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)
    Threadmarks: Henson Bio XV: Staring into the Sunset

    Chapter 16: Staring into the Sunset Excerpt from Jim Henson: Storyteller, an authorized biography by Jay O’Brian Jim Henson stood on the hills above Laguna Beach and looked out over the vast Pacific. The sun slowly set in front of him. It had been nearly a decade since that fateful night when...
  16. Raumboote modern derivatives

    The Ham class were armed with Bofors 40mm in RN service. Coast Guard service would be constrained by both endurance and seakeeping qualities.
  17. Kantai Kessen

    Warships that survived World War Two and should have been museums!

    Hell yeah. Potato cannons, anyone?
  18. The Sudeten War: History of the World after an Alternate 1938

    This is still a Soviet wank. Without all the help from the USA the Red army could have never reached such a level in manpower or in weapons. Even without Barbarossa the soviet economy could not stomach that. And then looking at the loss rates. Even if one takes the notoriously understating...
  19. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    Germany failed to receive an A-Bomb because Germany had already been defeated. Japan copped it because they were still standing.
  20. GauchoBadger

    Vietnam, a unwinnable war?

    What matters to the Viet Cong’s success is that their enemy often responded to any perceived activity with disproportionate violence, very often against civilians as well, in an effort to get to the needle by burning the whole haystack. And you know who the Geneva Conventions tell you not to...
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