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  1. AHC: Make Escort Carriers Prevalent Among Developing Nations During The Cold War.

    No, especially when you can launch planes from East Germany in case of Baltic, and Bulagaria, Crimea nad Georgia in case of Black Sea. Buying couple dozen more planes instead or gaining aerial refueling capability would make more sense

  2. The “Magnificent Age” - Catherine II TL

    The agricultural sector of the region was big but not strong; probably the serfdom was the reason why more advanced economic forms could not start spinning, the domestic consumption was quite weak.

  3. The “Magnificent Age” - Catherine II TL

    They did and, because they lacked capital, they paid for it with their own people's blood

  4. The “Magnificent Age” - Catherine II TL

    Actually, I forgot the most important: tokay

  5. The “Magnificent Age” - Catherine II TL

    You know how colonial powers sailed around the world and invaded various less advanced countries and forced treaties on them that made them produce basic goods and exchange them for developed goods? Our geniuses did that to themselves, so they could sell their grain and buy manufactured goods...

  6. The “Magnificent Age” - Catherine II TL

    Assuming they would not blow it on whores, operas and paintings: Probably better for Habsburgs and company, for Swedes it depends, Hohenzollerns of course wouldn't get anywhere and could rot in their margraviate, with Turks it's complicated, for Tatars it would be worse, and with Russians we...

  7. The “Magnificent Age” - Catherine II TL

    Some of them did. And being an economic colony of Amsterdam was the source of the remaining problems....

  8. The “Magnificent Age” - Catherine II TL

    Important note to all SI time travellers: get yourself some pet philosophers for hire Stockholm. And most of Poland's trouble stems from som of their kings not realizing that. That and not having money independent from Sejm.

  9. How to reunite Poland?

    Parisians subjugated the rest of the country and forced their culture on it, didnt they?

  10. Robert Falcon Scott survives returning from the South Pole

    True.

  11. Robert Falcon Scott survives returning from the South Pole

    pointlessly dying while trying to win some vain glory is not sacrifice but suicide and there is nothing heroic about it, we dont call those who die to make a perfect selfie heroes after all Well, at least he didnt send couple thousand men into machine gun fire to win some medal or promotion...

  12. Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    "elective monarchy"

  13. The “Magnificent Age” - Catherine II TL

    There are 100,000 or so noble families in Poland, including couple dozen that actually matter, don't treat them as a monolithic bloc. Although I too dont get why a magnate with income in hundreds thousands or millions would care for a pension from foreign ambassador amounting to maybe couple...

  14. The “Magnificent Age” - Catherine II TL

    What means long? Between the first use and LV going out of fashion passed less than a century

  15. The “Magnificent Age” - Catherine II TL

    Petty (and at this point absolutely degenerate) in the moral sense, because Poland was ruled by great houses magnates

  16. The “Magnificent Age” - Catherine II TL

    Probably someone was being obstructive. I mean, the calendars, cooking and prayer books had to been printed somewhere

  17. WI: Poland and Lithuania Remain Separate

    Lithuanians might have had another opinion on that, and I am afraid it's the only one that mattered

  18. WI: Ottomans attack Vienna during the War of Spanish Succession instead of 1683

    Poland wont entangle itself in war with Sweden without resolving the Ottoman question first. Neither will August of Saxony, whose conditions on being elected in such a case would be "recovering lands occupied by Turks" Imho, if Ottomans dont come to Vienna in 1683, Vienna will come to them...

  19. Cavalry Charge Described as Shock Tactics

    What? The point of charge is either to rout or destroy the enemy (which in practical terms is the same thing) or achieve a breakthrough, no to kill a bunch of people. Generally, in warfare killing people is a mean not an aim. Yes, if the survivors don't bugger off, you failed to achieve your...

  20. Cavalry Charge Described as Shock Tactics

    It's the effect of the tactic changing from collective to individual "save your own ass" :) Really, because people are not zombies or robots, it's the same thing.
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