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  1. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    With regards to spares - they are not all being built at the same factory - 100s of sub contractors were leveraged for the production of tank parts with final assembly at the main tank factory. So things like roadwheels, tracks, engine, periscopes, guns etc where all built elsewhere. It would...
  2. Western Islam or Eastern Islam: which is the more radical divergence?

    Now that you mention it, this makes sense. Islam in central, south, east and southeast asia is very persianate, wheras islam in places like sub saharan africa is more arab like asthetically.
  3. A swift Republican victory in the Spanish Civil War?

    There was an TL on here years ago about the Spanish Civil War never happening which amusingly featured Franco going down in history as a hero of the republic for leading a last stand against invading nazis in Zaragoza...
  4. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    If we want something remotely sensible, then there is the Canadian Indestructible Roller Device Or the Bullshorn Plough
  5. What if Russia invested more heavily into American colonization?

    It tends to get underappreciated compared to Spain, Portugal, France and Britain, but Russia also took part in the colonial game over in the Americas. The most famous of them being Alaska, but they also had small colonies set up in Hawaii and even one in California. Overall, they were feeling...
  6. Justinian

    Romanov Ascendant: What if the Soviet Union survived?
    Threadmarks: Chapter Four: A Tragic Comedy

    The Situation in South Africa: By April to May 1993, Marthinus Van Schalkwyk and Thabo Mbeki, the co-leaders of the provisional administration of the self styled Free Republic of South Africa, which in reality was mostly centered in Cape Town and some affiliated areas. Had finally managed to get...
  7. German completely adopts the defensive September 1942

    The thing about 'running out of manpower' for USSR is that generation of people that were born in 1924-1927 was coming of age in 1943-45 respectively and it was larger than generations that were born in 1921-1923 (Civil war and famine generations) that become available to draft in 1940-1942. So...
  8. Inferus

    In a freak coincidence, both Stalin and Hitler die during the beginning of Operation Barbarossa

    The question is what happens in the Soviet Union. Does Stalin's initial death paralyze leadership? Does a civil war break out? A positive: likely no hold ground commands with threats of shooting deserters. Bad news is how quickly the lines break if the troops don't fear reprisals. Germany will...
  9. The Forge of Weyland

    Some-one (Air Ministry) placed production orders for these aircraft. So, you need a POD back when the decision was made (why ? I mean, what other options did they have ? ) and stop the 'tooling up' in the first place. [for some reason that is beyond me, inter-war the British seemed to have...
  10. How can Roman republic be saved?

    Tiberius Gracchus upon becoming a Tribune of the Plebs originally follows the strategy that his younger brother pursued 10 years later (after Tiberius' death)? Thus a slower implemented, wider supported, not so broad set of reforms get implemented. Then magic happens. The...
  11. Is it possible to avoid the catastrophic economic and demographic fallout from the USSR collapse

    For Russia: avoid the schock therapy measures and policies like the distribution of shares of the various companies among the people, which in fact enabled those with readily available funds (ie former KGB and Party officials) from buying them en masse and becoming the domineering economic...
  12. XTrapnel

    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    Very minor quibble: given that electors can't cast both their ballots for president and vice-president for candidates from the same state as themselves, shouldn't the Texas electoral slate technically be unable to cast their votes for the Strickland/Hill ticket? It wouldn't really matter this...
  13. The Forge of Weyland

    This is grossly unfair. The problems BC had were down to the change to night ops, something they had not been trained for and had no navigation or bombing aids for. They were trying to navigate with sextants and star shots. I once saw an interview with a BC navigator that said the best he...
  14. Pride Goes Before a Fall: A Revolutionary Greece Timeline

    If there was an independent Bulgaria and its neighbors were experiencing repeated terrorist attacks from Bulgarian nationalists, then yes I would definitely expect those neighbors to mobilize for war. Whether it happens will depend on what the great powers of Europe think about it. If they are...
  15. Emerald of The Equator: An Indonesian TL

    Oh man i missed a lot didnt i well lucky i finally catch up btw what is the current govt of myanmar?
  16. alfredtuomi

    Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    It is a good thought but unfortunately not quite so easy.As an example when Packard started building Merlins they had to redesign to North American standards(i.e their machinery) so if you took a part from a Packard merlin it would not necessarily fit a British built Merlin.Now if you wanted to...
  17. The Forge of Weyland

    I know that Bomber Command couldn't hit anything that it was supposed to at this time but then the army had its moments too, especially in WWI. My Grandfather who served in the RFA was full of stories about the number of times that he was ordered to shell trenches held by the British (not only...
  18. DBWI: 2004-05 NHL season lost

    He (Crosby) seems immune to the lessons, though, doesn't he? Imagine what Dave Brown or Marty McSorley would have done 35 years ago.
  19. Dan1988

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Malta

    I . . . would not actually see that happen, from my understanding of how Whitehall behaved during this time. If Newfoundland joins the UK (and it's a big if), it would be because of conditions specific to Newfoundland that cannot be replicated anywhere else. The British government would also...
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