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  1. AHC: Turn the German Empire into a Republic in a Central Power victory timeline

    Wilhelm II was not very popular before the war and if the war in 1918 ends with Brest Litowsk and a white peace in the west then insulting some soldiers who actual fought in the trenches and or refusing the reform of the election system in the Kingdom of Prussia is all we need ....
  2. WI: Mauser C/96 was grip-fed?

    That´s an animation of a C96 there, is not enough space for the magazin aft and the bolt has to move much further back. What you want is a Walther P38 but for that John Moses Browning has to invent the slide first.
  3. WI: Mauser C/96 was grip-fed?

    It would be a total different pistol. More like the Walther P38 or Beretta 92 which have similar locking system but at the front and at the aft like the C96. The locking mechanism of the C96 blocks the way of a grip magazin.
  4. Taiping industrialize China like Stalin did Soviet Union

    Taiping can industrialize but not in the way and in the time scale you want but with peace or not to much war industrialization can happen.
  5. Taiping industrialize China like Stalin did Soviet Union

    China needs to industrialize to the level of czarist russia first. Stalin did´t start from scratch.
  6. Which country could have a cultural invasion similar to South Korea or Japan

    India, for a real invasion more movies like RRR are needed.
  7. What do dreadnought and pre dreadnought type ships get called if Dreadnought wasn’t the first?

    The designation of the imperial german navy was Großlinienschiff aka large ship of the line. So a more technical designation. Maybe battleship will prevail
  8. US adopted a 2-China policy

    West Germany had a similar policy towards East Germany as China at least to 1970 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstein_Doctrine#Soviet_recognition_of_East_Germany And the rulers of East Germany was themself as a different Germany so that they didn´t want to take any responsebilities for the...
  9. PLO wins the 1973 Jordanian Civil War

    What would happend if the PLO had won against the jordanian forces under King Hussein ? By winning i mean King Hussein had and his familiy had to leave the country or were killed and Arafat became President. The population of the Kingdom of Jordan is about 50% palestanian so would Jordan become...
  10. WI: USN Kirovs

    Would the Arsenal Ships count as US Kirovs if they were build ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_ship
  11. Prussia in democratic Imperial Germany or Weimar

    It is true that Prussia was 800 pound Gorilla in the germ empire but it didn´t had a mayority in the upper house the Bundesrat it had 17 votes out of 58 and out of 61 with Alsace-Lorraine. Prussia had only a veto in military question and in because it had 17 votes it could block changes in the...
  12. What if Canada got the Queen Elizabeth class ships it ordered

    If we can trust wikipedia HMS Hornet of 1893 was build with Yarrow water tube boilers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hornet_(1893) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarrow_boiler
  13. WI: Real Life Michael Myers

    Only six times ? Give the psychiatrist an AR/15 or AK47 with a 30 round magazine!!!!
  14. Economic potential of the Russian Empire if WW1 is avoided?

    Eh Brazil and Mexico are part of the West.
  15. What if the MiG-25 was made of titanium?

    The numbers i remember are Tornados 359 (212+35(ECR)+112) RF-4E 88 F-4F 175 F-4E 10 (in the USA for training) Alpha Jet 175 Total 807 the delivery of the Tornado ECR started after 1990 iirc
  16. What if the MiG-25 was made of titanium?

    The Luftwaffe numbers are quite low do they include the Alpha Jets (175) and the Marine had 112 more Tornados.
  17. Would Franz Ferdinand actually doom Austria Hungary had he survived to become emperor?

    Switzerland is good example how to escape that problem, don´t have a single staate/canton/ land etc for one language group/ethnie. Simplified in Switzerland 17 Cantons are german speaking the other speak french or italian. Austrian-Hungary could end in system more like Belgium, one region for...
  18. No Environmentalist Movement?

    The pod of 1960 is to late the first organisation for protection the enviroment in Germany was forment in 1899. Starting with protectiong birds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturschutzbund_Deutschland
  19. Political impacts of Canada deciding to build small nuclear reactors for use on Submarines

    That is a strange article .... Thorium is not fissionable by absorbing a neutro it becomes Uranium 233. Which is fissionable . So thorium reactors run on uranium at the end and the thorium is there for breeding new fissionable material. Most of the time when somebody talks or writes about...
  20. No Belgium

    The whole idea of Prussia getting the Rhineland was to have them be the watch at the Rhine.....
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