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  1. AHC: Save a notorious flop

    How could we improve Speed 2? The most obvious is possibly setting it on a passenger plane but that has rather bad connotations of recent air disasters. Maybe a train like trans Pacific nice long stretch of railway but with big terminals in big cities. Or perhaps set in on a sightseeing bus...
  2. Revival of Mongolia as a military power

    What if soviets base nuked tipped tactical nuclear missiles there just Like US based in turkeys
  3. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    It does absolutly devalue a ton of life, the handwringing of people with your moral code notwithstanding. " Your life is not valuable enough to justify killing an innocent for it. The Life of you, and your wife, is not enough. The Life of you, your wife, and your daughter is not enough..."...
  4. Sony never makes PlayStation

    Iirc Nintendo was all in with the DS and a planned portable gamecube...dunno what they would choose now
  5. 1933-43: Italy remains on forefront of aviation?

    Another thing you have to remember when discussing Italy in this period is the lack of oil.
  6. The Third Rome - A Byzantine Timeline

    Assuming if Constantinople is able to miraculously hold itself off, could Hungary join in the fray and attack the Ottomans in the Balkans too?
  7. wcv215

    Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Nope. The Crusades were in many ways just an extension of warfare at the time. And while killing noncombatants certainly wasn't the object of...well the First Crusade at the very least, that doesn't mean it didn't happen, nor that it was something that particularly involved the men involved...
  8. Effects on the UK's rail network with an earlier setting up of 'British Railways' in 1900

    I agree that 1900 is too soon for nationalisation, the most likely times are either during WWI or as an alternative to the amalgamation into the Big 4, with the latter the most likely.
  9. GameBawesome

    AHC: Make Morocco part of "Europe" to an extent, like Turkey or Russia, with a POD past 1500 AD

    Impossible. It means giving Western Sahara independence
  10. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Heavy is the head that wears the crown. I have often had similar thoughts about Truman and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki--to take on the responsibility for killing some 200,000 non-combatants, or to abdicate my duty toward those who entrusted me with political power--my own...
  11. Map Thread XX

    This is the last map I will post today. (It es in my David Bowie timeline)
  12. List of Alternate Monarchs and Aristocratic Lineage

    Marie might leave France and remarry, but her daughters stay put. The Habsburgs are the only plausible candidates at this point. Matyas Corvinus was the only threat Friedrich III had to overcome in order to get Maximilian elected as kig of the Romans. I can support that. But no Philipp the...
  13. ImperialxWarlord

    Foreign policy changes after a Bush win in ‘92

    But if HW does things differently then black hawk down might not happen. So there won’t be as much hesitation to get involved.
  14. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    The most common argument posited (besides the issue of resources and logistics) is that it’s one thing to engage in horrific atrocities in the context of a total war (which Germany did resulting in over 10 million deaths IOTL) but another thing to expect the German population and military to...
  15. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    This is a fine moral code to hold, but you shouldn't expect nation states to abide by it, or even consider it valid.
  16. Sony never makes PlayStation

    The PC-FX was already out by 1996 and honestly, I think it would've failed and NEC would've left the market all the same, with or without the PS1. Same with the Pippin (and as you mentioned, Jobs was not keen on the console market so he likely would've pulled the plug anyway). I'm honestly not...
  17. As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux

    Given the circumstances, are we about to see Disney amp up support for Atari's games? I hope it's Fox. But given the vote on when the network should launch, I know it's gonna be Fox. I actually want Hanna-Barbera and/or Henson Associates to buy the network. Or even both, if necessary. What...
  18. 1933-43: Italy remains on forefront of aviation?

    The Su-2 used the M-88B. The Su-4 with the M-82 first flew in Spring 42. And yes, the Italians took forever to get license production of the DB601 running and even longer to get some DB605 locally build. Had they moved faster, the RA could have been a full C.202 force in 1941 and a full...
  19. AHC: Save a notorious flop

    @H.Flashman(VC) I thought the piano music was by Jocelyn Pook? Or did Pook just perform it? This is the music when he was put on trial by the guy in red, and at the gate with the warning, right? If so, to each his own. I don't think I'll ever like it, though I do recognize the emotions it was...
  20. Resurgam

    Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    So, uh, what was it, then?
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