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  1. How far west could the Slavs have gone?

    I think the most likely places to be taken over by Slavic tribes to the west is the Po Valley and the Jutish peninsula, I think making it further across across the Elbe would be hard. They had already taken the easy territory of Lüneburg Heath. The northern Slavs made use of ard ploughs, and...
  2. McPherson

    America Be Watching With The Popcorn: A Sino-Soviet War TL

    That never changed. It was my first statement on this subject.
  3. Hawker Hurricane even more prolific and versatile?

    True enough, but it does get a bit ship of Theseus. How many bits on a Hurricane can you upgrade/change/replace and have the aircraft still remain a Hurricane? Compared to the Mk.I a proposed Mamba training variant will have different wings, new fuselage structure, new engine, changed canopy...
  4. An Age of Miracles Continues: The Empire of Rhomania

    So far Odysseus' goals aren't very destructive, but the demand to install Iskander the younger onto the throne will probably be the thing that extends the war until a decisive end. But I'm yet to see the "Wrath" part of this War.
  5. America Be Watching With The Popcorn: A Sino-Soviet War TL

    The points have changed from burning out the radar from EMP to blackouts and degradation of signals from the detonations. OK. Which is why the Nike-X system, the research of which which you showed above, was cancelled, due to limited engagement capacity and radar blackouts. Further on down on...
  6. The Eternal Empire: Emperor Maurice dies before being overthrown

    I'm getting OTL Last Roman-Persian War from this Roman-Turkish conflict. Many rounds of brutal warfare and destruction, weakening both of them so a 3rd party can swoop in and take the spoils.
  7. Fuzzy Dunlop

    Film WI: If "Blazing Saddles" had the "original" casting

    That was towards the end of the 70's. He made 'The Shootist' while on his last legs.
  8. Case for coastal artillery until the 1980s

    There's a good bit on this exocet trailer in this article. https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/operation-black-buck/analysis/ But it didn't arrive until May 28 and appears to only have fired twice.
  9. Case for coastal artillery until the 1980s

    They did! Albeit a fairly jury rigged affair on the back of a flatbed truck. One of them damaged HMS Glamorgan when she was on bombardment duties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Glamorgan_(D19) EDIT - OK you were referring to the 9.2's!
  10. A stronger Poland: what would be the effects on Hungary and the Balkans?

    Well, at least as far as language is involved, the divergence didn't even take place in XIVth century - when Wenceslas II of Bohemia (briefly) conquered Poland Polish nobility considered him speaking "our" language and even later, during first free election in 1572 a Bohemian noble who was...
  11. How far west could the Slavs have gone?

    I had been playing with this idea last couple of days. Basically, main part of my idea is to have Serbs and some other Slavic tribes migrate not south, but north to Denmark. How to manage this is a bit of the problem, I don't have some particular idea. I mean, I was thinking about having bigger...
  12. Churchill Dies Suddenly after the UK is Already Committed to Fighting On.

    Did Winston Churchill suffer a myocardial infarction in the White House at Christmas 1941? J Allister Vale et al. J R Soc Med. 2017 Dec. Abstract While staying in the White House over Christmas 1941, Churchill developed chest pain on trying to open a window in his bedroom. Sir Charles Wilson...
  13. RedKing

    Explain the AH Quote

    I have actually never heard of that game before. Guess it’s proof that two people can come up with the same idea.
  14. Alternative UK response to the invasion of the Falklands

    https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/operation-black-buck/analysis/ About 3/4 or more down the page of this article (a good read btw, a mythbuster) Thatcher says what her political objectives were on April 24. She wanted minimum casualties and maximum prisoners, and if speed had to be sacrificed for...
  15. Byzantines reconquer southern Italy and Rome by 1100, how does Christendom develop from there?

    It might not be as hard as a cursory reading of OTL history may suggest. The great schism though building on for quite a while, hadn't solidified. It certainly wasn't acknowledged as a formal division as say, we would of Berlin after WW2. A strong ERE might even be attractive to the Papacy as a...
  16. RedKing

    No, they wouldn’t try to usurp the throne because they have no claim whatsoever. Only Henry...

    No, they wouldn’t try to usurp the throne because they have no claim whatsoever. Only Henry Tudor had a claim via Margaret Beaufort.
  17. RedKing

    The Children of Camelot

    I will, I have the first few chapters written up anyways. Indeed they have! And fulfilled to it’s maximum extent! Thank you! :) Also congratulations on the well earned Turtledove! Thank you :)!
  18. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Peabody if I get a dollar for everybody who believes in things that are largely seen as disregarded pseudoscience that would go a loooong way in making my material life better. Starting with Nancy Reagan and astrology...
  19. WI: Yugoslav Trieste

    I suppose it depend on how many italians remain. Levov and Silesia are now without polish and german people, so that the claim has no value; if italian still remain a important part of population of Julian March, the claim still has value.
  20. For Want of a Word – Stolypin endures

    For what I read about him, he doesn't seem the nicest person to put it mildly. However he might have impressed his superiors like he did otl, so I don't see why not
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