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  1. DBWI: Why did Dutch die out in British South Africa, while French persisted through British rule in Canada?

    Aside from the reasons other posters already mentioned, the fact that Black South Africans continued to speak Dutch ("Afrikaans") didn't really help. When the use of Dutch started to diminish amongst White South Africans, it became - with the passing of every generation - more and more...
  2. WIP Map Thread

    Below is a sample section of a historical map I am re-projecting. The wider grid of grey squares indicates 10-degree intervals, and the map covers Alaska and the pacific north west. However, from the vertical longitude lines on the sections I have done, the map distortion is quite noticeable...
  3. Admiral Bloonbeard

    TV invented by the time World War 2 starts, impact on public perception?

    The amount of sets in the UK wasn’t significant until the late 40s
  4. Kantai Kessen

    IJN Soryu's and USS Wasp's Durability and Usefulness

    So the POD in this scenario would be TF1 actually getting off the US West Coast and heading out to contest the Midway operation in a conventional battle-line engagement, with the carriers acting in recon and in preliminary strikes, with Yamamoto getting wind of this beforehand. At this time...
  5. A Thorn In The Rose: A War Of The Roses TL

    Ouch. Henry really isn't feeling too good about himself. He really would have been much better off if he hadn't been king. A monastery for.instance would have been a good option for him.
  6. soviet_killer

    Map Thread XX

    1. Speak the Empire's language or one of the Accepted Languages (Auld French or French/Latin, respectively) 2. Be of "Angevine" stock (achievable starting from the late 2070s through genetic modifications for everyone, before that, basically be European with some Latin heritage) 3. Loyalty to...
  7. Rommel goes to trial.

    Sense the general consensus so far is he likly dies, what if his trial is delayed due to bogged down burocracy or because of him being difficult to track down initially (assuming he evades captuer until shortly after the end of the war), might his sentence be waived for service to the allies...
  8. Admiral Bloonbeard

    WI/AHC: US aligned Asia, USSR aligned Europe.

    The Italians Communist Party relied more on Moscow than any other Communist party
  9. TV invented by the time World War 2 starts, impact on public perception?

    I mean TV stations trying to broadcast for the enemy and occupied populations. I doubt that they had screenings of Deutsche Wochenschau in London or British Pathé Journal in Berlin. With the TV, though, there's a remote possibility for something like this. Upon further checking, though, the...
  10. An 1-engine fast bomber for 1935-45?

    Very late war. Not sure that even 450mph makes it as a schnell bomber one the Me-262, Meteor, and P-80 are in the game. I am a HUGE fan of the XF8B (I try to shoehorn it into every story conversation that I can!),
  11. AHC/WI: Stronger IJN light cruiser line

    If the IJN cruisers were supposed to engage opposing cruisers/destroyers, it would have seemed having a plethora of 6" weaponry is actually better. The armored belt of a US or UK cruiser can still be penetrated by a 6" or a 8" weapon while the AP shells do little to the US/UK battleships (HE...
  12. The_Persian_Cat

    A Map Shitpost Thread

    "Namaste, Welcome to Indiana!" by u/Outrageous_Service on Reddit
  13. IJN Soryu's and USS Wasp's Durability and Usefulness

    Possible? Yes. Would the Japanese actually do so? No, for two reasons. The first is that as late as Midway the battleships were still considered the decisive arm of a naval action - they were hanging back so that once the carriers cleared away the Midway air garrison and then the American...
  14. Kantai Kessen

    Alternate warships of nations

    Or (if it's made by the USN) Ernie King sees it and promptly rips it apart with his bare hands.
  15. Driftless

    William Howard Taft succumbs to a heart attack in 1909

    IF the US jumps into the Great War earlier (1915 or 1916?) does that lead to: * The Germans need to keep more forces on the Western Front vs the East? * Russia stays in the fight longer? * Less weariness - so the fighting leads to a German surrender, rather than an Armistice - which has big...
  16. Kantai Kessen

    Alternate warships of nations

    Or Japanese metallurgy. Add a French pre-dreadnought tumblehome for good measure.
  17. Was Nikita Khrushchev was he good for the ussr?

    IOW, those who are in charge used them to benefit themselves, which is inevitable as long as human beings are human beings. That Communism mostly benefits the Communist Party apparat is nothing startling.
  18. wcv215

    The Eternal Empire: Emperor Maurice dies before being overthrown

    Uh...sure. I tend to color in states which have appeared in the main narrative, or are about to. Since the Poles have only appeared in the background they haven’t gotten to that point yet. But they will by the next map. The Rus are about as large as OTL, and also about as disunited.
  19. Alternate warships of nations

    Mind you if my design got built and ahem "legally" acquired by the RN methinks the KM and RM would be rather unhappy. Also it occurs to me that Hood could probably go in for a rebuild the second the KGV(or maybe the POW) commissions since enough fast capital ships would be available to cover for...
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