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  1. A question about the ARW and Benedict Arnold

    So, I was doing some reading into why Benedict Arnold has become a byword for treachery in America, and through cultural osmosis the rest of the world. I'm actually a bit curious; what would have happened if his plan to surrender Fort Arnold (as it was known at the time, now the site of the...

  2. Es Geloybte Aretz - a Germanwank

    Hey@carlton_bach, loved the read of this. Jolly fun. Do feel like I have to ask, did von Rathau, or whatever his full name was, have his chickens come home to roost yet, about supplying material support to the Russians?

  3. Map Thread XIII

    It's a bit complex; the setting, which I have been working on with a friend of mine, is basically a big mash-up of a lot of 'real world' anime and western animation, but primarily Sailor Moon. It's set about 1200/1300 years from now; a couple of centuries after the end of the "Great Freeze" of...

  4. Map Thread XIII

    Hey, I hope this is the right place, but I was looking for some help to create a world map for a roleplaying game I'm working on at the moment. Think that you all could help?

  5. TR wins in 1912

    I've looked into this once or twice, and a major cause of TR's failing health was when his youngest son Quentin was killed in WWI.

  6. Why did Britain and the dominions grow apart?

    Well, one of the things I remember reading about L-L was that, almost as soon as V-E Day ended, the US sent the metaphorical debt collectors around to London, saying "Return the stuff we L-L'ed you, or we start charging you for 'em."

  7. The Revolution will not be Televised

    Or maybe Nader threw his voting bloc in with Gore, in return for some concessions?

  8. WI: Modern Crimson Skies

    Hope so; I had another look, and here's what I found about the "De Havilland DH. 9 Hornet" (the aircraft described as the RAF's mainstay). It was fast, manouverable, and made the Japanese Zero look like an A-10 Thunderbolt, with only two weak popguns and two rockets for armaments.

  9. WHEN would an young officer just miss WW1

    What if he tried to volunteer earlier in the war, but missed the cut for medical reasons? That's what happened to Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army; he spent years trying to get into the army, and eventually did so, in 1919, too late to win any medals, but in time to deal with the post-war...

  10. WI: Modern Crimson Skies

    The one thing I do hope in this setting is that the RAF gets some decent kit; the Balmorals are okay-ish, given that they're not front line bombers any more, but the description of the fighter that the RAF was mentioned to have in the game books is frankly insulting.

  11. British Strategic Steam Reserve Existed

    Well, this took a turn for the morbid fast.

  12. The Quiet Coup: The Fall of Gordon Brown

    It might just be the way my brain is wired, but I keep thinking that the Johnson you're talking about is Boris.

  13. The Whale has Wings

    That's the one; the illuminated hospital ship, sunk by a Japanese Submarine because the Sub's captain wanted to pad out his Tonnage Sunk numbers.

  14. The Whale has Wings

    Why do I get the feeling we might have a "Centaur Incident" in the making?

  15. Western Allies Usage of Soviet Equipment

    The first occasion was of an RAF officer flying in Northern Italy, Squadron Leader James Eric Storrar, being gifted a Yak-9D from a unit that was operating nearby in Yugoslavia after taking a flight in it, which he used as a personal hack until the oil tank was ruptured and unable to be repaired...

  16. Western Allies Usage of Soviet Equipment

    Not too long ago, I remember reading about an RAF unit that was stationed in either Italy or the Balkans, that acquired a Yak-9 on two separate occassions.

  17. Audie Murphy, Simo Hahya, etc.

    By that, do you just mean no Staff Officers, or no commissioned officers at all?

  18. Audie Murphy, Simo Hahya, etc.

    How about Capt. Charles Hazlitt Upham of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force; the only combat soldier to receive the Victoria Cross twice.

  19. LNER in chaos

    Interesting bit of Trivia, Thompson was the son-in-law of Sir Vincent Raven, the CME of the North Eastern Railway as it was and, as far as I know, Raven was Gresley's main rival for the role of CME of the LNER after the 1923 Grouping.

  20. LNER in chaos

    Speaking as a man who models the "Late and Never Early", this thread tweaks my interest greatly. I intend to keep my eye on it. As for the question; what about Charles Fairburn? He was the Deputy CME under Stanier, and he never really had a chance to show his chops, spending only about a year...
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