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  1. The 30 mm HE shell. The ideal weapon for use by WW2 Allied fighter planes?

    The best US 20mm cannon was the M61 Vulcan. Granted, getting that for ww2 run-on-the-mill fighters will be a major task. As for the UK, yes, they did make a switch to 30mm. French did the same. Soviets moved from 20mm towards mixed 37mm + 23mm by the jet age (and all-23mm battery on La-9 and...
  2. wcv215

    Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    At the danger of going even more off-topic. Ottoman is based on an Anglicisation of Osman I. While I don't know for sure, I'd actually guess that its an anglicization not of his Turkic name, but rather the Arabic form of it Uthman, or Othman.
  3. McPherson

    Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Better military police and officers? Or maybe a different safety valve mechanism? Anyway, there are enough incidents and records in US WWII archives to suggest the 72 hour rule IS valid.
  4. AHC/WI: Buddhist Persia

    Plenty of opportunities for conquerors from Central Asia who convert to Buddhism to sweep south and conquer Persia all through late antiquity up to the late Middle Ages. However I’m not sure it’s gonna be enough to actually supplant Zoroastrianism or Islam.
  5. List of Alternate Monarchs and Aristocratic Lineage

    Mary in Denmark, Cecily in Navarre. Gian Galeazzo was engaged to his cousin Isabella of Naples when he was 10 and that match made much more sense than anyone else,
  6. Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    Could you recommend any books on the House of Tudor? Something for a total beginner?
  7. Revival of Mongolia as a military power

    That's smaller than what the Mongolian People's Army actually had in the 1980s.
  8. Little Rock Nine Massacre

    Why is this still open
  9. The M-BAM Main Thread

    d do you have an MBAM of the borders for artskah before azerbaijan re-took it? like, the claimed border.
  10. AHC/WI: Buddhist Persia

    Can we somehow get Persia to become Buddhist instead of Zoroastrian or be Buddhist alongside Zoroastrian? How would it impact the Greek and Roman world? This could be aided by fact thst Persian and Pali come from related branched of Indo European
  11. KingOnTheEdge

    AHC: Replace the main cash crop of the CSA / Southern USA

    Coffee-derate States of America.
  12. Bonapartism still relevant after Franco-Prussian War?

    What if France gangs up on the Prussians during the Austro-Prussian War? That was the most sensible option, with hindsight. Maybe you could give assurances to the British that you are not, in fact, going to reclaim the Rhineland, but just make sure that Prussia is not going to unify the German...
  13. UoBLoyalist

    Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    I'm also not finding anything about Manilla being subject to mass rape after 1945 as was referenced above.
  14. AHC: Replace the main cash crop of the CSA / Southern USA

    Could rice work? further salt, lime and booze?... Tulips? as stated befor Marijuana is also a good candidate
  15. GameBawesome

    AHC: Replace the main cash crop of the CSA / Southern USA

    What about that Boil Weevil epidemic? If it still happens in a Victorious CSA timeline, it could devastate the Cotten industry in the CSA, forcing them to temporarily switch to an alternative, like peanuts.
  16. WI Germany goes South in operation Barbossa

    Soviet logistics were a disaster, even worse than the Germans. They made up for it with sheer production and lend lease of trucks. Soviets which can’t use thousands upon thousands of trucks and are resorting to horses for transport are in terrible shape compared to OTL. Less territory is taken...
  17. Map Thread XX

    New York state and Yorkshire? Scotland and Nova Scotia? Brunswick and New Brunswick? New Spain and regular Spain? New France and regular France?
  18. AHC: Save a notorious flop

    AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
  19. AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    I think this touches on big problem with any HSR conversation - the focus is always on the shiny bullet trains that go 300mph. Those might be the sexy image, but the system only works if there's a, well, system there in the first place. Europe has some sexy fast trains. But they also have a...
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