Lucas would have made Flash Gordon before 1977 I think, and still would have made Star Wars regardless. He wanted the Flash Gordon property from De Laurentiis in the early 70s. Now if he makes Flash Gordon and it fails, that could affect Star Wars being made in 77
The P-36 was pretty much an American Ki-43, but sturdier and better armament.
It probably would have done better against the A6M than the OTL in the P.I. based P-40E, that picked up a thousand pounds of weight over the earlier P-40B/C, and almost a ton more than the P-36, for a gain of 200hp was...
Threadmarks: Part LI: Union (Valley of Ananuri) (1525)
Part LI: Union (Valley of Ananuri) (1525)
The Trapezuntine Empire and the Kingdom of Georgia had been joined at the hip since birth, driven together by the common threat of the seas of hostile infidels that surrounded them on all sides. The Kartvelians had given aid and succor to the...
I get the feeling that Italy isn't going to get things its own way in this conflict and it's interesting seeing the kindling being built for other conflicts alright. I do wonder if the Japanese government actually intends to keep its part of the treaty in regards to the Philippines, or if they...
...the Çandarid border and was pretty much home free.
The muscles in his legs and torso still ached, no thanks to the hard wooden benches of the han* that he sat in, and he shifted his weight with a slight groan. This was one of many merchant houses that he had contacts with across the region...
As you both noted, steppe empires are universally crushed by their settled neighbors once firearms become a factor, as this essentially negates the best abilites of horse archers.
Veliky Novgorod is basically going the way of the Roman Republic; constant factionalism and internal strife as...
The US never expands beyond the original 13 colonies and is densely populated along the entire length of the coast. Beyond that, it's not happening short of a population close to that of China's for the simple fact that the US is, quite simply, too big.
I had another thought about Goeben going west, especially as pertains to Russian entry to the war: Goeben absent, the Russian Black Sea fleet should be markedly superior to the Turkish one. Could the Russian Black Sea fleet steam to Constantinople to “protest” the closure of the straights?Could...
He wouldn’t marry Louisa Maria Stuart not only because she was a Jacob in pretender there’s also the fact that she is his half aunt. His mother Anne and Louisa have the same father but different mothers. and there’s no way that level of inbreeding would be acceptable.
It was in a couple small articles (almost sidebars) in Car & Driver back about 81 or so. The little Dodge Omni GLH was making a lot of noise in the 'pocket rocket' segment and Some of the Chevy engineers wanted something to compete with it. It was a low budget (hence the parts already in the...
I have no idea what 'Goodwill quality' mean. And quality of Soviet goods varied. For example I still have Soviet fridge that is 40 years old by that point and it still works just fine. It obviously isn't fancy or convenient as modern ones and you need to defrost it every half a year or so, but...
The US healthcare system has exactly zip to do with it. It is your hobby horse apparently. If you relate the drinking age with the healthcare system you will relate ANYTHING with it.
Well, there's no law that says they have to make it to the Pacific.
(And if we went with a scenario where they did that would require more Holy Water, which, in the aftermath of the flipped map phenomena, I think we have a global shortage of.)
The various North Africans (Numidians, Carthaginians) showed interest in the Canaries - if a Punic colony was established there, the Romans might see it as a potential threat and worthy of conquest. The problem is, what use are the Canaries to Rome once they have them? Rome already controlled...
I'll have to read more about that guy, sounds fascinating. Funnily enough, there's actually been Greek settlement in the East going on off-screen. Arslan had no small amount of trouble exerting control over the Gulf, and he managed to sweet-talk Alexandros II into allowing Pontic volunteers to...
Funny thing is that I can think of no less than five AoE2 civs that fit the bill - Huns, Magyars, Cumans, Tatars and of course Mongols.
What other places would be great for an "inevitable" city? Mouths of rivers like Alexandria and New Orleans?
Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. Contemporaries, or the audience, may never know.
The Trapezuntines are going to have a hell of a time surviving the next few years, that's for sure. It bears noting that western and eastern Kartvelia are divided by the fairly defensible Likhni Mountains, so even...