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  1. Sapa Inka Wiraqucha

    Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Well, they sure must've thought it did.
  2. Map Thread XX

    Interesting choice for a Disco Elysium reference. Wonder if it’ll fly.
  3. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    No question the NAZIS were evil and did NEED to be defeated as was the Japanese Militarist empire. It is NOT clear that the policy of terror bombing was needed
  4. AHC/WI Reversed Cold War: Democratic Russia, Totalitarian America

    The main point of divergence being no 1917 October revolution, how can we have Russia become a stable democracy and the United States into a totalitarian dictatorship? What economic system are the two governments going to run with? After what do the next 70 years look like up to 1991?
  5. Earliest self-rule for India as a part of the British Empire

    It is part of a common sports related phrase in the United States - "Play the Ball, not the man". It is shorthand for "Don't go after other members as people, debate the facts or discuss the scenario. Attacking other members is actionable under Board Policies and Rules...
  6. A more realistic (IMO) AHC: US Metro/Regional Transit as good as in Europe.

    One idea I have is to have the Feds have an agency that helps negotiate such agreements across state borders. Metro areas have the population density that can support public transport and that is where the money should go.
  7. Andrew Boyd: Duke of Dank

    A more realistic (IMO) AHC: US Metro/Regional Transit as good as in Europe.

    One idea I had, among several other derived from @TheMann, included an alternate take on the famous Pacific Electric. Long story short, my idea would be that PE would improve during the 1920s and 1930s, then work with city planners to design the LA suburbs. In the center of the intended suburb...
  8. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    The Germans might have a tank problem. So all the talk a day or two ago about German tank guns etc got me thinking, exactly how hard was Germany hit by the Changes that Carden brought to the British. So to that end I re-read the Battle of France section looking at the German tank losses. Quick...
  9. Challenge: Have a Quasi-Fascist POTUS elected in 1932

    Noted. Nor did I mean to say you actually intended to, only that anybody who means to has to answer that. (Perhaps my phrasing could have been better...:oops: )
  10. thezerech

    In hindsight, was American independence from the British inevitable?

    There was always a clash of American interests with British ones, Americans wanted to expand West, the British didn't want them to, and the British did not seem interested in providing for any sort of colonial representation, they never provided anything for any other colonies. Granted, other...
  11. The beloved prince – survival of Afonso of Portugal

    Interesting timeline. I made a thread about Afonso living, but chose not to do a timeline. Nevertheless, I'm watching this!
  12. WW2 Technology WI: Airborne Divisions Create "Drop Pods"?

    This sounds like an armored glider. IMO, as Draconis suggests, gliders are the better option. They're more maneuverable under fire, & able to vary their descent speed at need. Could they have been bigger? Maybe. I ponder something like a C-119 "parasite glider", with a full C-47 fuselage &...
  13. The Q-BAM Improvement and Core Thread

    Understand, I will help you for the Pacific islands and then I'll try the lakes. Edit : I see that the coasts are not the same than those of the most recent versions of the Q-BAM. Are you trying to do a new version of the Q-BAM from the beginning ? If that so, I'm not very good at it
  14. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Yeah, 17,500 rapes (bad enough as that is) in all Europe during the entire war is hardly the whole army going berserk, particularly since individual soldiers were no doubt guilty of multiple rates. The Red Army (not talking about the Heer and IJA which were probably even worse) raped that many...
  15. Q: What other areas could have been ''Re-Christianized''

    North Africa seems the most likely. Portugal invested decades in the conquest of North Africa in OTL and the newly-united Spain began planning for the conquest of Melilla very soon after the fall of Granada. It seems likely that Spain would have pursued a larger conquest of Morocco (and possibly...
  16. TheSwedishHistorian

    WI: Russian expansion focused more on Persia

    Taking it would be a bit like the Swedish Empire trying to keep all baltic coastline from Russia. Iran would fight tooth and nail to get it. That said, Russia is no small power, and a weaker Iran, with more independence movements, and perhaps partitioned to some degree by the French, Brits, weak...
  17. Map Thread XX

    Courtesy of u/Alagremm from Reddit, the Iroquois Principality of Niagara: a Native American microstate located on OTL Grand Island. The artist almost solely specialises in microstates of all kinds; this map is only one of dozens that they have created. “Your race's descent has only worsened...
  18. curlyhairedhippie

    List of Alternate Monarchs and Aristocratic Lineage

    I think this Philip is more likely to marry Maria of Portugal (b. 1521) than Dorothea. I think Anna is more likely to wed the son of Sigismund the Old and Bona Sforza. Ferrara is too low for Catalina tbh. I would expect a French proxy bride in Ferrara and Catalina can marry Charles of Savoy.
  19. AHC: is it feasible if the world started diversfying away from fossil fuels much earlier

    Into oil shale and oil sands. There is a LOT of oil in the world, just that most of it is expensive. But not as expensive as the changeover the renewables (unless you factor in environmental costs). So really someone has to develop the science of global warming earlier (I remember in the 70's...
  20. Challenge: Have a Quasi-Fascist POTUS elected in 1932

    Right. But the post I was replying to indicted FDR as a fascist on the basis of locking up the Japanese, sending Jews back to Hitler, and giving Stalin half of Europe. It didn't say anything about state intervention in the economy. And I wasn't actually intending to indict King. It was more of...
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