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  1. Hawker Hurricane even more prolific and versatile?

    Nobody's gainsaid the above so here goes... POD 1st December 1934. The Air Ministry orders two Hurricane prototypes from Hawker and two Spitfire prototypes from Supermarine. The first Hurricane prototype (K5083-A) was powered by a RR Kestrel V engine and made its first flight in July 1935...
  2. WI: Alexander the Great lives to 75?

    Alexander was also the best among his generals, while Augustus was dependent from Agrippa for military matters (and both knew it very well)
  3. If the USSR was defeated how would the Pacific War play out?

    Probably, much like France & Italy after their collapse. Competing political groups functioning as de facto separate nations. In the shorter run of a year or two I'm wondering what the Allies could do with several hundred thousand Soviet soldiers and other refugees being pressured out of the...
  4. AHC: Make Morocco part of "Europe" to an extent, like Turkey or Russia, with a POD past 1500 AD

    That is make it a nation perceived as somewhat European, which may potentially be part of things like the EU or the Berlin Conference.
  5. WI: Alexander the Great lives to 75?

    The difference between the successor states and Alexander is immense: First he has ALL the resources they had combined. He can afford to fight on more fronts. Second by coopting the persians instead of opressing them the number of forces available to him will again multiply. An empire built on...
  6. WI: Alexander the Great lives to 75?

    If Alexander is alive or leave as heir an already born son with a solid powerbase behind him (read: NOT a son of Roxane or a minor consort, but a son from a Persian princess or Macedonian noblewoman) is unlikely who his generals will betray his family: without a power vacuum they would have no...
  7. Competent Austro-Hungarian military command.

    Well Italy presumably stays neutral to the end, or as close to the end as to make no difference. Romania probably declares war on Russia when it's clear she is down for the count, if not earlier due to fear of Bulgaria. Ottomans probably does a bit better if the overland route is opened...
  8. Goeben Atlantic breakout

    Goeben can get to the Spanish Atlantic ports. They will just be trapped and interred there if they get through the straits of Gibraltar. Goeben sailed through the straits of Messina (Italian territory) historically while the British didn't which allowed the Germans a clean escape. There is no...
  9. Remember the Texas! The United States in World War II (an alternate history)

    Wouldn’t the amount of men and material involved be enough of a deterrent for a Formosa invasion? Reading up on Operation Causeway, it sounds like Formosa would involve over 500k troops including logistical support. Since Formosa was a colony of Japan it wouldn’t be a leap in logic to assume...
  10. The Last Hanover: The Life and Reign of Queen Charlotte

    He may have already have had his title, but number one, he’s ten, so what he thinks doesn’t matter. Two, they were in a very precarious situation and his mother and regent was doing whatever necessary for her son to keep his throne, regardless of what titles or powers he had.
  11. Henry Tudor, Heretic and Father of Kings

    So, the royal family at the time was: King Alexander IV Queen Wilhelmina Kathryn Margaret, eldest daughter of Alexander IV and the deceased Queen Margaret Prince Arthur, only child of Edmund of Wales Princess Augusta, only child of Alexander IV and Wilhelmina The descendants of Prince...
  12. Is it possible to avoid the catastrophic economic and demographic fallout from the USSR collapse

    You don't need 20 years to do that. 5 or 6 should be fine. I think under my system the oligarchs would get the first 20% pretty cheaply (I would set the price at book value or so for the initial offering) but would bid up the price fairly quickly. I think the price of shares would at least...
  13. Radek

    The German Century

    Reichkanzler Adolf Hitler... somehow, the more things change, the more they remain the same. Onward, German Reich! Shall the Prussian Eagle fly tall and proud above the roofs of Paris, Moscow and London!
  14. Balkanized U.S.A

    Map Thread XX

    Situation in Europe and East Asia in 1956, at the occupation of the Axis nations.
  15. ItsaMapping

    Map Thread XX

    Currently in the process of making a chinese POD where the Song Dynasty successfully industrializes in the 1100s, pretty blank slate of an idea for me so help is appreciated! I plan on having the current time in the 1400s or 1500s
  16. SealTheRealDeal

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

    ...kept and hugely profitable industry. And it's frequently cited as one of the main reasons why US passenger rail sucks. Dedicated passenger rails* don't have the same nationwide benefits. *and that's what you need for true HSR, once you get over 200mph right of ways just aren't going to cut...
  17. Alternate warships of nations

    Of course to fix that you need to give Pacfleet a couple more months before Watchtower begins
  18. How accurate is the description of the Naval War in the Atlantic in Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising"?

    It would be a gamble, if NATO would expectet such a reaction. But before the end of the Cold War, as the first real WP-war plans turned up, nobody expected the Soviets to be extreme nuke-trigger-happy.
  19. Goeben Atlantic breakout

    I agree that is the major concern but it’s tricky to conduct a blockade with coal fueled ships because the pursuing British battlecruisers need to refuel pretty much just as badly as Goeben. If Goeben is not intercepted at Gibraltar I think she stands a good chance of disappearing into the wide...
  20. Goeben Atlantic breakout

    So she might have had the range when she conducted the attack on Algeria on the 3rd but she did not on the evening of the 6th (likely due to the high speed dash to and from Algeria) Messina to Skikda (Then Philippeville), Algeria is about 500 NMs so that's 1000 NMs - assuming a straight line -...
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