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  1. Largest supranational union by modern day?

    Serious Pan-european proposals date back to the 19th century, but the relatively limited warfare of that century did not really provide an incentive for them. In the interwar years there were some stronger supporters, but they did not gain a lot of traction in the diplomatic climate, even though...

  2. Best rearmament of the Reichswehr?

    Couple of more thoughts on the airforce: 1. The vulnerability stage: otl the concept post 33 was to build a large force that looked impressive out of available types first. A Republic might hesitate to go the Risk Fleet route and try diplomatic flanking steps over buying huge ass numbers of...

  3. Best rearmament of the Reichswehr?

    I misremembered a few thinks when writing that post. Lesson don´t write stuff from memory, especially with tight timing involved. After looking again at Doyle/Jentz, Panzer tracts 1-1, which directly quotes a number of the surviving primary sources, I have to admit I misplaced some dates and...

  4. Best rearmament of the Reichswehr?

    The airforce is probably the least recognizable branch in a surviving Weimar Republic, for the plain and simple reason that the senior personnel otl was very much shaped by Görings personal contacts, nepotism and nazi ideology. Some of the otl senior officers will not get deciding positions...

  5. Best rearmament of the Reichswehr?

    The Reichswehr already had decided pretty early that the Leichttraktor looked like a dead end. Thus the order for the Kleintraktor (later Panzer I) development was placed in 1930 and a purchase of Carden Lloyd tractors was considered. By 1931 the Kleintraktor already looked promising enough and...

  6. 1920s Germany if they win ww1 what do you think would have been done with the imperial navy if they didn't scuttle their ships.

    I guess it depends on a couple of factors: 1. Is the U-Boat campaign of the great war seen as a success? E.g. if unrestricted submarine warfare is not renewed in 1917 for diplomatic reasons and the U-boat traps for the Grand Fleet largely fail as otl, the Germans might well decide that the...

  7. 1920s Germany if they win ww1 what do you think would have been done with the imperial navy if they didn't scuttle their ships.

    My two bits: for a late war German victory some form of naval treaty is extremely likely. For almost everybody this is in their national interest: The UK will financially likely be in a worse situation than otl, with huge foreign debts, but no reparations or gains to offset it. Not to mention...

  8. Conversion to Islam during the Christian Reformation

    Poland-Lithuania is a bit of an odd case. It had strong competing Protestant movements in the 16th century that actually managed to cooperate and achieve significant political influence and a degree of religious tolerance unusual for the time - including for a few years in the 1570s full...

  9. AHC: Alternative location(s) for the global film industry

    I don't think so, good dubbing and an acclimatised audience works well enough with live-action (and on rare occasions even improves it, the German version of the Persuaders TV series being my favourite example). That said the impact of a stronger European film industry on Animation could be...

  10. AHC: Alternative location(s) for the global film industry

    Not just France, a number of European countries had their movie industry cut down to size due to the world wars: For example Austria-Hungary had a fairly well developing film industry, that even got a small boom in the first years after WW1. Otoh the war also led to a displacement for many...

  11. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 4

    Probably the entire Crew leans into a corner of the crew compartment to tilt the vehicle the right way.

  12. Most overrated weapon of the Cold War

    I remember talking 20 years ago to one of the guys involved in evaluating NVA tanks for the Bundeswehr Post-1990 20. He told me that they went in expecting something at least equal to the Leopard 2 (which was criticised as too little to late vs New Generation Soviet tanks upon introduction - see...

  13. WI European powers in the age of Napoleon kept archers in an axillary usage?

    There is drill field performance and combat performance. The Prussian army under Frederick the Great trained to six rounds per minute in peace time because that translated to the desired 3 rounds under combat conditions. From what I can find the ratio was similiar for archers: a training...

  14. WI European powers in the age of Napoleon kept archers in an axillary usage?

    If you look at the firearms of the 19th century Qing army, you mainly see matchlocks without paper cartridge or socket bayonet. Basically the equivalent to the European early 17th century. Which is as it happens is the tail end of combat archers in Europe. The last battle with archers in Europe...

  15. Tank design philosophy by country?

    There are a multitude of factors that influence tank design in a country. Some of those can change with a relatively recent POD, others are owned to long term impacts or unchangeable factors like geographic realities. Take the German example. Otl WW2 it was cut of from critical ressources, had...

  16. Why were the Wehrmacht's logistics so bad?

    Actually the conversion of Russian railway lines by the Germans is a pretty impressive example of German logistic capability and its problems. From what I remember reading about it a few years back: Conversion happened at a faster rate than Stavka considered possible and by 43 most lines under...

  17. Alternative A-10 Armament

    How about a revolver cannon, as used by various European airforces(Giat 30, Bk 27), upgunned with the cartridge used in the Gau-8? Advantages would be that the cannon itself would be lighter and smaller and that it would be immediately at full RoF. Disadvantage of course would be a lower maximum...

  18. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    That does not really work. A lot of German tank designs both before and after WW2 (e.g. III and Leopard 1, even the infantry tank IV) deliberately got armor too light to stand against their own main gun at any angle. In general German tank designers saw firepower and mobility as more important...

  19. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    There is this article on tank encyclopedia that Lists all the failed attempts to sell variants of the Panzer I. I previously heard of deliveries to China and Spain and development of a variant for Bulgaria. The main reasons for the lack of sales seem to be lack of production capacity and better...

  20. Would a Habsburg Poland be possible in some CP victorious scenario?

    There is this article in the Frankfurter Zeitung from August 1918, which states that Karl Stephan is the candidate Austria and Germany have agreed upon. The only alternative mentioned - as one off the table - is a personal union with Austria-Hungary. Found it interesting how the article...
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