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  1. The Campaign Trail Game Has Returned.

    My first EVER victory as Clay in 1844! Been trying for ages and finally eked out an electoral college win by 584 votes in Pennsylvania. My strategy was pro-Texas annexation and anti-abolitionist, balanced by going heavily anti-nativist and pursuing a full blooded Whig tariffs/national...
  2. The Campaign Trail Game Has Returned.

    https://americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/533333 Won as Ford in '76. Picked Howard Baker but ran a fairly orthodox conservative campaign aggressively targeting the Midwest. Took the lead after I won the debate without any gaffes and in the end squeaked out a small PV victory, with my...
  3. DBWI: Fromme Fails, Ford Lives

    The big question is what happens with Reagan. Does he primary Ford? And if he does, would Reagan get the support of the party so easily like he did against Rockerfeller?
  4. The loss of which ancient texts you regret the most?

    Two immediately spring to mind: Plutarch's Parallel Lives of Epaminondas and Scipio Africanus, arguably the two greatest generals of the classical world; and the elegies of Gallus, a poet apparently the equal of Virgil, and of whose works Ovid says (something like) "they will be read from...
  5. Nazi-Soviet peace deal October 1941

    Err yes, by playing entirely on the defensive. The whole reason Germany launched Barbarossa in the first place was because they couldn't depend on Soviet oil shipments forever. If peace is signed, the Red Army finishes its modernisation unmolested and now Stalin can cut off the oil any time he...
  6. Nazi-Soviet peace deal October 1941

    It's too much of a zero sum game for there to be any peace deal. Either Germany gets the resources necessary to circumvent the British blockade, in which case the Soviet war effort is crippled and Germany re-invades later; or the USSR keeps hold over its vital strategic resources and Germany...
  7. Were you still up for Balls?

    Just going to bump this
  8. Europe neutral during the Cold War

    Let's say after WW2, socialist parties come to power in Europe advocating a non-confrontational stance with the Soviet Union. Germany is united and neutralised, NATO never gets off the ground and US troops are withdrawn from Europe. What happens? Is there as much conflict in Asia, Africa and the...
  9. Emirate of Angliettere (WI King John converted to Islam?)

    How is John actually physically going to convert? There were no Muslims in the kingdom, he doesn't have a Qu'ran, and even if he did he can't speak a lick of Arabic. Who is going to tell John how to convert and what he is converting to? Pretty sure that any Muslim embassy would be lynched if it...
  10. Ask Me About Ancient Egypt

    Oh yeah, and what was the Egyptian sense of humour like? Do you have any jokes?
  11. Ask Me About Ancient Egypt

    Do we have any historical record of significant peasant rebellions or the like?
  12. Religion in the late Roman Empire

    What about Manicheanism?
  13. Communust France: What would it look like?

    Not really possible after WW1. Germany would crush any Communist government by force.
  14. Plausible ways for England to keep Normandy

    England was unlucky that they got two extraordinarily incompetent kings in a row (Richard and John) just at the time when the Capetian monarchy's reforms made the French monarch a financial player again.
  15. AHC: Make Labour Natural Party of Government

    I would already call Labour the natural party of government. Despite a big recession and an incredibly unpopular leader, they still managed to deny the Conservatives a majority in 2010.
  16. 1990 Saddam invades Saudi Arabia

    Saudi Arabia may well have collapsed. At the time before US intervention was clear, the vultures were circling. Yemen was openly supporting Saddam and King Hussein of Jordan was making noises about returning his family to their rightful rule of Mecca. Considering the religious implications of...
  17. Hong Kong refuses to join China

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Goa No-one is going to lift a finger to save Hong Kong if China decides to invade.
  18. the war situation has developed -not necessarily to Japan's advantage

    That pales in comparison with: "The American soldiers are committing suicide at the walls of Baghdad".
  19. Is Nazi Victory ASB?

    Agreed. The 7-week defeat of France was alone an utter fluke.
  20. CH: World War 2 Like World War 1

    Fall Gelb fails to knock France out of the war, leading to a bloody counteroffensive from France and Britain pushing Germany back into the Rhineland. When the Soviets invade in the summer of 1942, the Reich collapses and sues for peace.
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