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  1. North Pole melts -900 AD

    "The monsoon in the Indian Ocean is severely weakened." :confused: The monsoon is driven by the build-up of summer heat over the Asian continent. So why would it weaken if the earth heats up?

  2. NOT DA VINCI CODE-related: Templars fight back against France

    They'd be beaten. The Templars may have been rich but they couldn't contend with the might of the French kingdom. Though much of the profits would elude king Philippe in that scenario. A good amount of the lands would have to be awarded to the lords and knights who helped him in putting down...

  3. These Hills Sing of Saxon Kings

    Isn't France still fractured ITTL? Despite the splintering of the Aquitaine-Champagne axis the various duchies/counties appear to be de facto independent, much like the various parts of the HRE. In this situation the kings of France will have more pressing matters to attend to at home, rather...

  4. WI James Michener had tried his hand at AH?

    I thought that Michener's novels (well, the two I read) had too much history to be good novels, and too much fiction to be good history. Judging by the understanding of history displayed any AH would be more pedestrian and unimaginative than Turtledove's. IMO his best book was Iberia, a...

  5. Japan opened in 1660

    Why would the VOC do such a thing? It had nothing to gain by it and quite a bit to lose, Japanese silve and copper financed a good part of its Asian operations. The VOC was a monopoly enterprise which did not like competition. At all. Belief in the virtue of free trade was a 19C thing

  6. Mexico Following CSA Victory

    The French intervened in Mexico on the side of the party that just lost their civil war. Without being propped up by French bayonets Maximilian's side would lose again. With being propped up by French bayonets the French are in for a second Algeria. Mexico at this time was a decentralized...

  7. Germanic (Saxon/Frisian/etc.) empire in Europe

    The point of giving large tracts of land to the bishoprics was that bishops could be expected to come out and fight for the Emperor, not having legal heirs, whereas secular lords could not. Even relatives were as likely to rebel in their own dynastic interests as to stay loyal.

  8. Rome versus Macedonia

    Some quibbles: IMO Alexander the Great would not tarry for 20 yrs before invading Italy. If he made up his mind to do so he would get on with it. As it stands the first part to me reads too much you want the Romans to give the opportunity to beat the Samnites first. You do know that the...

  9. map challenge

    And Bulgaria acquired the southern Dobruja :confused:

  10. China Modernizes?

    Two problems. The Portuguese didn't need to do this: they possessed Macao from the mid-16C. The Chinese had experience fighting Europeans having had several spats with VOC-forces and kicking them out of Formosa. So they wouldn't underestimate this latest attempt. And keep in mind that in...

  11. WI Britain had the same gun laws as the US?

    Back on topic (sort of), has anybody read this? http://www.amazon.com/Arming-America-Origins-National-Vintage/dp/0375701982 quote: While gun supporters use the nation's gun-toting history in defense of their way of life, and revolutionary enthusiasts replay skirmishes on historic...

  12. Clemenceau doesn't receive a vote of confidence, 1917

    IMO restoring Belgium into somethimg resembling its pre-war state would be a sine qua non for any sort of peace between Britain and Germany, even following a German win on the continent. After all the British went to war over Belgium. They're not going to sell it down the river as long as the...

  13. Unified command for the central powers

    There's a general election while there's a war on involving the four continental great powers, pitting pro-war Conservatives against anti-war Liberals (to simplify things). So the British people has the opportunity to elect the government that will so what they want, fight or not fight. I...

  14. Unified command for the central powers

    What "race to the sea"? The original poster presumed Germany remains on the defensive in the West.

  15. The Netherlands in WWI

    I think that the Netherlands joining Germany out of oits own free will is highly unlikely. The policy of Neutrality was deeply ingrained by 1914. And what would have been the point? Colonial gains are very unlikely with Britain on the opposing side. Union with the Flemings was only desired...

  16. Unified command for the central powers

    I don't think France will vacillate though, especially if it is Germany which declares war. In that case the terms of their Russian alliance come into force: if Russia is attacked, France will join it. You also need to account for Britain. True, without Belgium the Liberals may not declare...

  17. WI no Pearl Harbour

    Rubber was grown in Indonesia. Also in French Indo-China for that matter.

  18. WWI delayed by four years

    I'm glad someone agrees.

  19. WWI delayed by four years

    "britain that stays neutral due to less tentions with germany (won the naval race) and no german invasion of belgium." I'm not so sure. In 1914 it were the Liberals who needed to be persuaded to go to war by Germany's invasion of Belgium. But 1914 was also the year of the Irish Home Rule...

  20. Empires under the Sun - Warning: Slow updates

    What is different about this?
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