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  1. Which version is historically accurate for the Netherlands in 500 AD?

    From what I know, and can find online in Dutch, the short answer is "Neither, but the right-hand one is closer". The Flevomeer should definitely be closed up like you have it there. The left-hand one looks more like the 1500s to me. But it's apparent that a huge part of the coastal areas were...

  2. Flag Thread V

    From having a dig through the category of Bavarian orders and medals on the unavoidable wikipedia (in German), by far the majority of the badges used the Maltese cross rather than the Prussian cross pattée, especially if you ignore the orders that post-date the actual OTL unification. So I'd...

  3. Return of the terrible flag thread.

    If you assume it's a US date, or an East Asian one without a year at the start, then it's 25th April. Obviously the Korean People's Army are all massive fans of the Asterix books and wanted to commemorate Albert Uderzo's birthday :) Or if you want to place any faith in the Infallible Genocide...

  4. 8mm to the Left: If Hitler Died in 1923

    The other trend that suggests itself from OTL is the All-India Movement, which strove for independence, as a federal state, for the whole of British India without splitting the country up along religious lines. If you could avoid millions of people displaced by Partition, and the associated...

  5. 8mm to the Left: If Hitler Died in 1923

    For the official name, I don't know for certain what we'd have done. I suspect it depends on which party's doing it and how they want to spin it. But returning to "Kingdom of Great Britain" might be useful from a legal perspective given that it existed from 1707 to 1801, so you've already got...

  6. Flag Thread V

    I'd not heard of a rule about round s after tall letters - certainly the things I have in German with German blackletter in don't do that (e.g. a Cassel's Dictionary listing all the Gleich- compounds giving examples like gleichſinning and gleichſeitig), and the fewer sources I have for British...

  7. Flag Thread V

    It's possible that Polish has different traditions, that I'm not aware of, different to the way that British, Dutch and German people used them when they were both still used, but based on all the contemporary usage I've seen thus far, you've got your long and round 's's the wrong way round. As...

  8. Flag Thread V

    That makes it look like a blue speech bubble to me, as though it's a character in a Candy Cane Land speaking only in Stars.

  9. A New Coat of Arms Thread

    I mean, "arms" is literally just the shield and what's on it. Everything else counts as, IIRC, "achievements" in the way English labels heraldry. So the toise and Phrygian cap together form a crest, which is part of the achievement of arms for your Cumberland. There's a common labelling...

  10. 8mm to the Left: If Hitler Died in 1923

    Should a member of the Kamarilla catch wind of that idea though, even if it's a really fringe view or something said sarcastically, then might the thought not occur that they could play this up, via the newspapers that they own for example? If the public opinion of the navy were to drop, and...

  11. 8mm to the Left: If Hitler Died in 1923

    That's my understanding too, more specifically that he finished the war as an Oberleutnant but was able to apply for a, let's say retrospective promotion* to Hauptmann after he received his discharge papers from the Reichswehr in 1920 due to their not being allowed an air force any longer. *...

  12. Graphic Thread

    For the German one, it's a direct translation of English and it makes sense in German, but it feels very Denglish still. As in, German speakers encountered the English phrase first and then translated it. The more native OTL current German phrasing is usually "Sicherheit geht vor", though I've...

  13. Flag Thread V

    My only double-take was the notion of a republican Germany including a monarchist crown anywhere in their symbols. Otherwise it's pretty cool.

  14. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    Sorry, I have no idea how to work that out. I can do the radius vs mass vs density vs surface gravity thanks to some equations I picked up from a Youtube channel called Artifexian, he's an Irish guy doing a long-running series on world-building etc that started from 'create your star' and is...

  15. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    Completely so. Even the orbit would only be different by a very miniscule degree, enough that you could ignore it as a rounding error for AH story-telling purposes. As to whether it would be warm enough, on average, on the surface to retain liquid water, IDK. I don't know how to calculate...

  16. AHC: Ethnic-nationalism in the British Raj, not pan-Indianism

    I get what you mean. I do suspect, though, that that would lead to a Neo-Mughal Empire instead, as in you still get an All India trajectory, but it speaks Persian (to begin with) and later Urdu as a national language, and calls itself Hindustan.

  17. AHC: Ethnic-nationalism in the British Raj, not pan-Indianism

    I could see @twovultures suggestion coming about from an infatuation with the Roman Empire, and deciding to copy the princple they had with non-citizen subjects who joined the army - deploy them as far as possible from their native culture and language. But I think @Madhukar_Shah has a more...

  18. Flag Thread V

    Clearly not. Not in any way, shape or form. The current one is an oil painting on a bedsheet, from any distance greater than a few metres it's amorphous, bland, indistinct and utterly forgettable. A flag is supposed to be distinct and immediately recognisable from a distance, not some...

  19. Rank Insignia and Uniforms Thread

    Given how much time Turkish and Hungarian speakers have spent closely interacting with each other over the last millenium, I have no doubt that they picked up the pattern from Turkish in that case ;) Oo, nice! If the Indian subcontinent supplies the largest part of their manpower, could I...

  20. Rank Insignia and Uniforms Thread

    Right, I'll just stick with ruimtevaarder in Dutch then. Here you go, most are OTL terms that are calque translations from French just like the English terms so the OTL terms are already direct translations. I've rejigged the Generals in Hungarian as they're a mixed bag and wouldn't fit the...
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