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  1. WI: The Enterprise completes its five year mission (Star Trek survives for 5 seasons)

    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
  2. marathag

    Remember the Texas! The United States in World War II (an alternate history)

    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...
  3. Eparkhos

    The Undying Empire: A Trebizond Timeline
    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...
  4. The Concert of Earth: A Multi-Polar 20th Century

    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...
  5. Eparkhos

    The Undying Empire: A Trebizond Timeline
    Threadmarks: Appendix C: March 1526, Aleppo

    ...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...
  6. Eparkhos

    The Undying Empire: A Trebizond Timeline

    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...
  7. Patton in Korea/MacArthur in the White House

    It would be really ironic if it was a dud.
  8. AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    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.
  9. Goeben Atlantic breakout

    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...
  10. Likely marriage candidates for a surviving William, Duke of Gloucester?

    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.
  11. WI: Ford had built the Mustang as a wagon?

    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...
  12. Is it possible to avoid the catastrophic economic and demographic fallout from the USSR collapse

    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...
  13. in U.S. circa 1990, “nanny state” takes the intellectual space of “political correctness”

    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.
  14. What are some likely convergences?

    Babylon, Seleucia, Ctesiphon, and Baghdad are all around the same area
  15. Map Thread XX

    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.)
  16. A Time For Greatness: The Alternate Presidency of John F. Kennedy and beyond

    Fun fact if anyone doesn't know : PM Macmillan was actually related to JFK by marriage.
  17. AHC: Roman Canaries

    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...
  18. Eparkhos

    The Undying Empire: A Trebizond Timeline

    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...
  19. SavoyTruffle

    What are some likely convergences?

    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?
  20. Eparkhos

    The Undying Empire: A Trebizond Timeline

    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...
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