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  1. WI: West Germany refuses to accept the Oder-Neisse Line?

    If I remember correctly didn't Russia offer to sell Germany the Kalingard Enclave? Germany turned them down of course. What would be the West response if Germany purchased it? According to Wikipedia: According to a Der Spiegel article published in 2010, in 1990 the West German government...

  2. WI Guerrilla warfare and insurgency tactics were taken up by the confederates, could that strategy have worked?

    No, Truth is by 1865 large areas of the South were ready for peace.... Large sections of Southern States had already begun re-joining the Union (Tennessee for example). A successful Guerrilla war needs the support of the people, and by 1865 only a few diehards and Aristocrats still supported...

  3. Warships that should never been built?

    This thread is awesome.... I never heard of the HMS Captain before, nor her sister ship the HMS Monarch... I found a model of the HMS Captain and I am in love with it, despite it's flaws...

  4. Different Pearl Harbor

    What if before the attack on Pearl Harbor the US Navy would have deployed the Battlefleet and left behind the Carriers? Would the presence of the Carriers change the outcome of the battle? If the Carriers were destroyed, how would that effect the outcome of the War? Would Naval Aviation be...

  5. WI: Pepsi Takes Over the Guatemalan Government

    True, the EIC, and the Hudson Bay Co, United Fruit Co, and the Virginia Co, and etc. However, none of those were modern institutions, most being founded before the 20th century, and even the Fruit Company was founded in the first half of the 20th century. What I meant by "But the world would...

  6. WI: Pepsi Takes Over the Guatemalan Government

    I imagine Pepsi sales plummet, and Coca Cola would be very happy. The world would not stand by as a corporation literally conquered a country. Now they could support one side and have a very strong "Partnership" with the resulting government. But the world would not stand for a de Jure...

  7. Better Versailles Treaty

    I have read in older books, specifically a book about the 30 years war wrote in 1890's, that use the phrase "Asiatic Moslems" to describe the Ottoman Turks. It is an outdated phrase, and I believe it was going out of style at the turn of the 20th century, but it is something from that era...

  8. Pick your own "Unsung Heroes" weapons.

    Thanks, I thought it was some technical term about elevations and altitude fighting... hehehe

  9. WI - Tzar Nicolas II captured by Germany

    Wasn't one of the reasons the revolution broke out was due to famine? If after being captured Russia signed a peace treaty wouldn't that improve the situation at home? Granted there would be a large amount of discontent, but it might not reach revolution levels.

  10. Pick your own "Unsung Heroes" weapons.

    what does ETO and PTO mean?

  11. Cast Iron Armor and Mantlets (mantelets)

    Hmm, all these suggestions give me some ideas.... Thanks to all of you for answering me...

  12. Cast Iron Armor and Mantlets (mantelets)

    Thanks I was talking with some friends about strategies that could have turned several battles in the 19th century, mostly Napoleonic, but Crimean and American Civil War as well, and we were debating if such things would be viable on a battlefield.. Thanks again

  13. Cast Iron Armor and Mantlets (mantelets)

    Thanks for the replies... I was trying to think of ways that armor plate could be massed produced. As to the mantelets, or mantlets as I have always seen it, I was wondering if they would work against muskets and such

  14. Cast Iron Armor and Mantlets (mantelets)

    I was wondering..... Would Cast Iron make good medieval armor? I ask because I would imagine that it would be cheaper and quicker to make, but I am no expert on such things. Also... Would Iron mantlets (manetlets) be able to protect soldiers from mid-19th century guns? Could an infantry line...

  15. AHC: Shadow Priests in Christianity

    In a way the "Sin-Eaters" of old do fit the description. He would "eat" the sins of he departed. The family of the dead would call for him, they would place a piece of bread on the corpse' body. The Sin-Eater would eat the bread and drink an offering of drink. The family would then pay the...

  16. BURNISHED ROWS OF STEEL: A History of the Great War (Foreward)

    I love how this timeline shows in a well thought out way how a foreign intervention in the Civil War would work in reality. I like how well researched it is, as well as the butterflies it will have on later conflicts. In general I do believe that this story shows how even if what the South...

  17. BURNISHED ROWS OF STEEL: A History of the Great War (Foreward)

    Could you foresee any use a gas-shells in this conflict? I know that they were tested during the Napoleonic War, but was thought to unpredictable as well as to "ungentlemanly" . Great Timeline so far!

  18. WI: Edward II never meets Piers Gaveston?

    True, however from what I have read they were not really that close. :)

  19. WI: Edward II never meets Piers Gaveston?

    I have read many convincing arguments that speculate that Edward II was not a homosexual. If one looks that the primary sources that exist from the period it is usually devoid of homosexual remarks as well as no description of Edward dying by the red hot poker. In my opinion it is very likely...

  20. Slavery used in Civil War peace negotiations

    Oh TFSmith I was just about to bring up that very book when I read you post. It is by far the clearest proof of slavery as the cause of the Civil War one needs. Their central argument in that book was to protect slavery we need to secede. TFSmith you are by far awesome at busting lost...
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