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  1. The Anglo/American - Nazi War - The on-going mystery

    Rereading and have a tiny suggestion for change in the description of the St. Patrick's day raid... Despite the best efforts of three full fighter squadrons five of the Ju-688s made it to the Washington DC area. Two were killed by Nike SAM before they could drop their bombs, but three of the...
  2. Goeben Atlantic breakout

    AIUI the Royal Navy in 1914 sincerely considered the new-ish pre-dreadnoughts front line units and wanted them in home waters for the decisive battle with the High Seas Fleet since their margin of superiority based on dreadnoughts alone was uncomfortably close to a fair fight. The older...
  3. SealTheRealDeal

    Revival of Mongolia as a military power

    Mongolia was a Soviet Satellite state.
  4. AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    I dont think that will happen but for the sake of argument assuming it would wind up costing twice as much, you can eliminate around half the rail distance (and in theory cost) by cutting out Boston and simplifying the idea of the north east corridor rail system down to linking New York city to...
  5. Dunkirk disaster and Spain declares war on Britain.

    I'm not sure this is worth continuing if you are simply going to continue moving from one claim to another without responding when the previous ones are knocked down. But just to be clear if things go worse for the British you expect Stalin to be more aggressive than OTL? The whole point of the...
  6. The North Star is Red: a Wallace Presidency, KMT Victory, Alternate Cold War TL

    I feel obliged to point out, that 1) FDR wanted Wallace on the ticket. 2) FDR floated Douglas or Truman as possible compromises with no bias 3) Organized Labor hated Byrnes because he had a union busting history 4) the US Military OPPOSED the bombing, Leahy, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Halsey...
  7. Amadeus

    Realistic Outcome of a Henry Wallace Presidency?

    Re A-bombs: Maybe Wallace wouldn't have used them against Japan (which as you point out was not necessary to win WWII w/o an invasion of the home islands), but he had been a prominent supporter of the Manhattan Project and IOTL expressed no disagreement with Truman's decision to drop them on...
  8. Was Austria-Hungary really doomed?

    It has been very tough for multi-ethnic, multi-lingual empires to survive - the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, the USSR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia all succumbed to the forces of nationalism. China is aware of this problem and is trying to accelerate assimilation with force. The US...
  9. Sony never makes PlayStation

    People have been predicted a second crash since 2008..i'm still waiting
  10. Horus Triumphant - an Alternate Antiquity timeline

    He will have his ideas about how the country should be, but his primary concern isn't religion. He will live in an Egypt occupied and governed by Greeks and Persians, so it's far from certain he'll get the chance to implement or even express his views. However ideas can of course live beyond the...
  11. Sony never makes PlayStation

    A Nintendo wank with no compotation giving them even less reason to innovate then they already have...this is a dark timeline, I feel like lack of innovation will eventually give way to straight up industry wide drops in development quality which might eventually lead to a second video game...
  12. Dunkirk disaster and Spain declares war on Britain.

    Stalin initiated the axis talks after Germany moved into Romania because Stalin felt threatened. Stalin is going to be even more insecure than in otl if France collapses in a month and the British are left impotent. Hitler had made clear his intentions toward the Soviet Union in Mein Kampf and...
  13. How important was the Dunkirk evacuation ?

    By that logic Italy (another ally of Hitler's Germany, and which if I recall history books correctly benefited from Hitler's takeover of Austria in terms of Italy's borders) would have declared war on the UK and France in September 1939. The fact that Italy did not (edit: declare war on the UK...
  14. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Thank god the hell of combining chemical weapon usage and strategic bombing using large numbers of heavy bombers targeting cities never actually occurred. That was treated as being more or less inevitable by a lot of interwar sci fi/future military writers and military men. Strategic bombing was...
  15. The Undying Empire: A Trebizond Timeline

    With Eparkos approval, i post this side story that happens in Sinope: The rooster began his religious chant, but Theophilos was already on his way to the water tunnels, in Sinope. The morning cold is kept at bay by some purridge, bread and apples. Everyday, for the past 2 years, the same...
  16. Effects on the UK's rail network with an earlier setting up of 'British Railways' in 1900

    A good part of that "efficiency" was cutting down to the bare minimum maintenance and running the assets without concern for the long term. Another part was replacing labour intensive (but profitable) luxury/1st class services, so you shift more people with less staff but make less money. There...
  17. GrandMaster

    WI: Queen Elizabeth II was gay

    How would this impact the Windsor bloodline?
  18. Sony never makes PlayStation

    Dunno how serious namco ever was...if anything could just because their rivalry with SEGA. There another challenger out there far better Namco...SNK, without Sony, the neo geo CD could be something too
  19. WI: Blockbuster Bought Netflix

    Yeah that could be a positive butterfly if well done, hope so, another one would be if viacom never got BB either too
  20. perfectgeneral

    Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    6th? 3rd? You have the 5th in two places in this sentence. It is just described as the third of the NZ brigades in the latest update.
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