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  1. Hawker Hurricane even more prolific and versatile?

    Argentina - likely; Chile - possibly. Brasil was a recipient of lend lease. Very true.
  2. TheDetailer

    Trying to Please Everyone: Or Converting multiple Pop Culture Utopias into a Timeline.

    ...That is certainly an interesting way to butterfly 9/11. Not that I object to it. Are there any 'infamous terror attacks' ITTL that take up the mantle instead? Sooner or latter?
  3. Sārthākā

    How long would it take for the Confederates to abolish slavery if they won the civil war?

    Pragmaticism needs to speak here. No one likes the CSA (other than a few lost causers here and there) however this dislike does not translate into everything the CSA does will be a failure. First and foremost, something that is horrendous is actually that Slavery in the CSA will be successful...
  4. German completely adopts the defensive September 1942

    If Germans don't loose the 6th Army as they did per OTL, that leaves them a lot better wrt. manpower, and especially in trained and experienced manpower. All together, Axis losses were around 800 thousand in the 5 months of the grind; granted, Soviet losses were even bigger, but so was their...
  5. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.
    Threadmarks: 8 February 1941. Bardia, Libya.

    8 February 1941. Bardia, Libya. The A10 tanks of 1st and 6th Battalion RTR, and the A9 tanks of 7th and 8th Hussars had picked their way carefully back over the tracks of Cyrenaica to Bardia. 7th Armoured Division’s RAOC workshops had taken over Italian installations which allowed a fairly...
  6. Why wasn't Runic script adopted more widely

    Lack of writing material and a general result of Pagan Germanic having a low degree of specialization thanks to low urbanization rate.
  7. Why wasn't Runic script adopted more widely

    We do not know if it was not used on other mediums, only that stones and swords survived. Other mediums would have likely been some form of parchment or paper, which requires careful storage to be preserved (and Scandinavia, where Runic script hails from, didn't have monasteries or libraries to...
  8. Atterdag

    Why wasn't Runic script adopted more widely

    Mostly this I believe. Norse tradition was, like most, very oral-based, myths and legends were first written down when they began to disappear. This also contributes though. Papyrus is difficult to import so far north and doesn't last long in damp, wet climate. Parchement does, but it is fairly...
  9. German completely adopts the defensive September 1942

    The issue if I'm not mistaken is a lot of the primary sources are in Russian and no one has taken the time to translate. My opinion is based off the following (this is a simplistic explanation): - A vast portion of the USSR's population was under German occupation. - The Soviet Army was huge. -...
  10. Whiteshore

    The Eternal Empire: Emperor Maurice dies before being overthrown

    And it was a nice bait-and-switch as we thought that the son of Nikephorus was the one who would grow up as Romanos the Mad.
  11. Nuclear energy=nuclear weapons?

    To have neither
  12. Why wasn't Runic script adopted more widely

    The Runic script was known since 1st century AD, why wqsn't it used except for onscriptions on gravestones and swords,? Was it fue to lack of need, lack of writing material or some beliefs about eriting being magical?
  13. A Shift in Priorities - Sequel

    The peak in expenditure was during the Cold Stage Crisis, when RRA built the Weizsäcker Suns and NASA built orbital mirrors en masse. Since then, costs have gone down and actually Germany and Russia spend less for space exploration than UK and Germany spent for their respective pre-Great-War...
  14. Votre Idéolinguiste Local

    Map Thread XX

    I see
  15. Nuclear energy=nuclear weapons?

    What to have one without the other? Honestly I just don't think you can, fundamentally any technology that has the known potential to go 'boom' will be looked at from a military perspective of it going 'boom' in a controlled fashion to the detriment of your enemies. Gunpowder was supposedly a...
  16. German completely adopts the defensive September 1942

    I have heard several time that manpower reserves were running low in 1945 but never saw actual data to support or debunk this
  17. German completely adopts the defensive September 1942

    Kursk was a very major offensive in which the Germans lost a very significant amount of armored vehicles and aircraft, which is far more important than actual manpower..
  18. Now is the Winter of Our Discontent
    Threadmarks: 1548

    1548 The revels had seemed to last all night and Elizabeth suspected that they would last well into the early hours as well. Her own attention had been caught by a merry set of antics, all at court knew of Arthur Boleyn's reputation with women and though her own affection for Constance was...
  19. German completely adopts the defensive September 1942

    I'm pretty sure the only reason they did that was because they were able to access manpower reserves in liberated territory and continuing to draft in the other regions was having a catastrophic effect on the Soviet economy. Without the manpower from liberated territory post 43, the Soviets...
  20. German completely adopts the defensive September 1942

    Leaving aside the political issues with this (as others have pointed out retreating in failure from Judeo-bolshevism isn't going to sell, and in general it hands overall initiative to the USSR which is precisely the opposite of German strategic military thinking). There are some trade offs...
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