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  1. Goeben Atlantic breakout

    The modifications later made were to the nose, basically adding a second cap. This, plus changes in the propellant, created the Greenboy shell. The 9.2 went through the same evolution. The shells at the beginning of WW1 had 2 crh nose profile, like their larger cousins. However, on looking...
  2. AHC: competent Red Army by 1939

    Yes. No or greatly reduced purges + slower expansion would do it.
  3. WI Market-Garden is a success?

    The Op extends the German Front line significantly Immediately threatens the Ruhr and has outflanked the West wall and more defensive friendly terrain to the south Liberates more of the Netherlands earlier - possibly allowing for an earlier capture of more ports (Rotterdam etc) Immediately...
  4. An Age of Miracles Continues: The Empire of Rhomania

    The impractical aspects of the getup are more or less equivalent to what the OTL Great Powers used as their equipment at the start of WWI. The relatively peaceful period that followed the end of the French Revolutionary Wars caused modern militaries to gradually adopt a lot of decorative...
  5. Sapa Inka Wiraqucha

    AHC: reverse the fates of Eastern and Western Europe

    I'm sorry, mate, but that is physically impossible! Consider the geography. The climate in the Med and the West is simply more conducive to a.) sedentary farming, b.) is much more well-protected from nomads, c.) is warmer and has longer summer, and d.) is capable of sustaining much more...
  6. WI: Władyslaw Jagielłło converts to Orthodoxy

    They did have a written language, Old East Slavic. Simply the areas conquered by Lithuania were among the hardest hit by the Mongols and never truly hsd the time to rebuild in terms of economy and culture
  7. Sports What Ifs.

    I could see an additional NFL expansion with second NY and Miami sometime in the late 60s/early 70s. Boston, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Buffalo, Denver, San Diego, Kansas City, Oakland and Cincinnati were AFL cities who could also get in to the NFL around that time or wait for the USFL to come for them.
  8. AHC: competent Red Army by 1939

    Any chances for a ooerationally and tactically competent Red Army by 1939 with a PoD even as far back as early-mid 1920s?
  9. AHC: is it feasible if the world started diversfying away from fossil fuels much earlier

    You need a way to advance battery technology, then even trickles of power can add up. Lots of ways exist to turn mechanical energy into electricity from human and animal power to making steam with the most advanced nuclear plant.
  10. Resurgam

    Idea that I desperately want people to contribute more than me since Idea wise its smart and cool but I don't have the confidence to do it

    I would say just do it. If the audience is there, it'll come, it'll react, and the story will grow. People do crazy fanfic ideas here all the time. I made Azula a hero for crying out loud.
  11. Could USSR attack Germany during Battle of France?

    True. It was the wrong question.
  12. Idea that I desperately want people to contribute more than me since Idea wise its smart and cool but I don't have the confidence to do it

    Imagine this, a world in which "Naruto" really did exist, but Japan, in a sense to prevent situations to occur such as wars over them keeps everything quiet, as in all of Japan knows but that is it. The hidden villages are known as military bases, and the Nine Tail Attack was a fire at Military...
  13. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    amazing! Your stories are amongst my most favourite on this site. Well done Allen
  14. Goeben Atlantic breakout

    According to Conway's 1906-21 the ranges of Goeben and Breslau (with full coal bunkers) were: Goeben 4,120 nautical miles at 17 knots Breslau 5,820 nautical miles at 12 knots or 900 nautical miles at 25 knots...
  15. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Re: Bombing the various Death Camps. The Polish Camps were pretty much ALL beyond fighter escort range, at least until very late war when the P-47N arrived on scene (even the P-51H won't have any time over target for some of them, even flying out of the Foggia Complex). The Lancaster can do it...
  16. GOP position on abortion in a timeline where Moral Majority never took off

    The real POD on abortion would be Roe vs Wade. Without SCOTUS interfering at that time the trend was for abortion, within limits, to become legal in more and more states and at least accepted by more and more. That trend would have continued and without RvW one of the key triggers in Moral...
  17. American Chernobyl: The Grand Forks Nuclear Disaster of 1980

    The safeties mostly work. It's true that the safeties are pretty good, but there have been and surely are cases where they are flawed in some way or another. An obvious example would be the early Polaris warheads, where the safety mechanism worked too well and probably would have prevented most...
  18. WI: Władyslaw Jagielłło converts to Orthodoxy

    And on the top of all the above Poland, at the time of Jagelllo, while having a smaller territory, was military stronger (compare the number of the troops and their performance at Grunwald), more uniform in its population and culture (compare to the Lithuanians and various versions of the...
  19. RedKing

    Jasper Tudor had children. The effects?

    I doubt Brittany would go protestant unless England goes protestant (which is unlikely) as it would risk the English alliance.
  20. Jasper Tudor had children. The effects?

    Good point. Maybe if Brittany became a Protestant stronghold and with the Huguenots spreading throughout western and southern France as in OTL, the French crown would have to reevaluate its religious position. As Brittany enjoys English protection despite England not being Protestant, Henry...
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