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  1. Clash of Eagles (SPOILERS!)

    This is a pretty good read. Not quite what I was expecting, but still good. So we have several PODs in this story (the first in a trilogy). The first one we see is that Rome survives; just how isn't really addressed, although it's mentioned that the wars against the Goths and Vandals was a...

  2. 1920: America's Great War, Robery Conroy (spoilers)

    well, this wasn't actually a bad story, except for the rather contrived set up (which sees Imperial Germany, victorious in WW1, set up shop in Mexico mainly so that they can invade California). But it seems a bit... familiar. The USA does badly at first, and the Germans are unstoppable. But...

  3. Disaster at Stalingrad (spoilers)

    This book by Peter Tsouras, as you might expect, is pretty well written, and is pure AH, with little in the way of characterization, focusing on events and war instead. It deals with the premise of how the Germans might win at Stalingrad, which is a bit of a problem because it takes a LOT to...

  4. Castro's Bomb/North Reich (spoilers)

    I lump these two together because they are both e-book only offerings from Robert Conroy. I read them both recently (due to lack of better options, more than anything else). "Castro's Bomb" is the more plausible of the two, depicting as it does a Cuban attack on Guantanamo base. The tension...

  5. Gettysburg...

    Once again, due to lack of anything better to do with my time, I'm going to post a blow-by-blow account of one of my board wargames on here. This time, I'm picking a short and simple one; Gettysburg, one of Avalon Hill's last published games before they got dismembered by Hasbro. This game...

  6. Napoleon doesn't invade Russia...

    (I did a search for this topic and couldn't find any matches. If it's been done already, sorry) The history books usually call Napoleon's invasion of Russia his biggest mistake; only 30,000 men out of half a million survived. So, what if he doesn't go into Russia? He still has to solve the...

  7. No Operation Torch

    One of my favorite PODs for WW2 is no British intervention in Greece, and the Brits conquer Italian north Africa fairly quickly (there was little to stop them); thus, Hitler, consumed with plans for Barbarossa, writes off north Africa, and there is no Rommel and Afrika Korps there. While the...

  8. Tears of the Sun (spoilers)

    I had thought this was going to be the last book in the Emberverse series, but no such luck. This book is unnecessarily long and, sad to say, kinda boring. It deals mostly with the internal politics of Montival, a few skirmishes (one of which kills a major character from the first trilogy)...

  9. Red Dawn at the Mall

    The Godless Commies have invaded America. Gathered from all the Marxist nations of earth, the foreigners have ravaged the land from coast to coast. Fighting back desperately, the Americans have won some battles, but are slowly losing ground to the invaders. But the Godless Commies are...

  10. Questions about the '28 Days Later' scenario...

    Having watched '28 Weeks Later' recently, some questions popped into my mind about the whole scenario. First, there's a lot of talk in the movies about waiting out the Rage virus, as the Infected die of starvation. Wouldn't thirst kill them a lot faster? If they're not smart enough to eat...

  11. Battle of the Yellow Sea

    November, 2010. Tensions are high on the Korean peninsula. The two Koreas are still reeling from the artillery duel, and heated words have been exchanged. In the midst of the crisis, USN and SK task forces have moved into the Yellow Sea to conduct joint exercises. Condemned by NK as 'putting...

  12. The Board Wargames thread...

    Thanks to Macauley, one thing I've belatedly realized is that there is a small but dedicated group of board wargaming fans on here (not surprising, I guess, for a history-based website). Board Wargames were the 'D&D craze' of the 70's, being a small hobby that exploded in popularity and...

  13. The High King of Montival (spoilers)

    Man, this book was disappointing. It's yet another 'transitional' book, kinda like "The Protector's War"... basically, you know that 'The Great Grand War to Protect All of Mankind" is coming... but in the next book, apparently. This one is all about a journey... basically, Rudi and friends go...

  14. Civilization IV

    having seen this game droolingly praised on here over and over, I broke down and bought it (well, I had this gift card for Walmart that I got for Christmas just sitting around). Played a couple of short try-out games as Rome... and I admit, I do see the appeal of it. So many paths you can...

  15. A different plan for 'Urgent Fury'

    The invasion of Grenada in 1983 was the first large scale military maneuver since Vietnam for the US armed forces. Although completely successful in it's goals, the operation has been widely criticized in the way it was planned and carried out. Basically, there are two areas that are...

  16. Anti-ship planes for the Luftwaffe...

    We've discussed on here a few times about Nazi Germany building carriers, and the usual consensus is that it would be a total waste of resources and would actually impede their war effort. WI Hitler decided on a bit different option? Suppose he actually gets an inkling that invading England...

  17. The Sword of the Lady

    anyone else read Stirling's latest novel about the Emberverse yet? The ending is positively... bizarre....

  18. AH challenge: the St. Lawrence border

    Threads about the USA conquering or buying the whole of Canada always seem to infuriate Canadians and delight Americans... so, let's consider a lesser scenario. When you look at a map of N. America, chunks of Canada sit rather weirdly south of the St. Lawrence River, which seems to be a much...

  19. Albigensian Crusade vs. a Templar Kingdom...

    any of you ever read "Holy Grail, Holy Blood" back in the 80's? This book was the main inspiration behind "The Da Vinci Code", and most of what it proposes is probably considered blasphemous by mainstream Christianity. However, there's a lot of interesting history in the book... and an...

  20. D-Day Beaches Switched

    One of the interesting tidbits in "The Longest Day" notes that the political leaders of the USA, for various reasons, wanted to switch the invasion beaches around in Normandy, so that the US troops would have the westernmost beaches. But the planning and positioning had gone too far to change...
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