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  1. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    Feudal system In feudal system it is not simple thing to kill another feudal lords subject even legally. When that feudal lord is monarch and subject is not just member of nobility but office holder for that monarch, extralegal means act of treason even in feudal systems because monarch is the...

  2. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    Love me some good finn wank. Just small point. Calling somebody in military just herra is unnatural. Correct way is herra luutnantti , herra kapteeni and so on. For more informal setting it is customary that lower ranker just uses senior officer's rank like "yes, general" or "no, general". Of...

  3. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    Best so far.

  4. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    Good work. I just suggest when you write Finnish soldiers swearing you use the most common swearwords at the time. Paska or Paskat (shit, shits) were used but the classic swearwords then and still are (allthought not as much used) were saatana (devil) and perkele (demon, evil spirit, devil)...

  5. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    I see you have read Tuntematon Sotilas (Unknown Soldier), best Finnish novel by popular vote. Pity that you have had to settle reading english translation that is generally though to be less than mediocre. You can't really appreciate true masterpiece equal to any great war novel written in...

  6. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    It was perfectly normal for lieutenant to be company CO for long time without being promoted to captain, often never. Same thing for captain being battalion CO. In regimental level my understanding is that major being CO's rank longer than very temporary was rare. Then again lots of division...

  7. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    Prikaatinkenraali (brigadier general) is even newer rank, adopted in 1994. Old system had three general ranks; kenraalimajuri, kenraaliluutnantti and kenraali (one lion, two lions and three lions). Reason for chance was international missions and need for equivalent ranks with foreign generals...

  8. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    Point taken. Ralli was fast music, usually fast dance music, so it could come up as term kalmaralli or ruumisralli roughly meaning death dance or corpse dance.

  9. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    Another word to use could be ralli . Ralli means in general use car racing on general roads, very popular in Finland. Ukkosralli would then mean roughly thunderrace. I would suggest terms kalmaralli or ruumisralli. Kalma is finnish word meaning death. Unlike general word kuolema (death), kalma...

  10. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    Just a little nitpick. Finnish flag over Berlin looks really wrong. Arms of the cross should be at least two times wider.

  11. The Lion of the North: An Alternate History Finland

    Historically crossbow was main projectile weapon of choice in Finland in hunting and war until firearms replaced them. Crossbows were introduced in Finland maybe in 13th century, 14th century latest and were widely used until 19th century.

  12. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    Finnish language Liking very much. Couple points about Finnish unit terms. First platoon is joukkue, not joukku. Second, more importantly, term for artillery battalion. Artillery battery is tykistöpatteri in Finnish and term for artillery battalion (multiple batteries) is tykistöpatteristo...

  13. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    Finnish terms I have been thinking how naming armored vehicles would go in this atl. Naming infantry carrier as rynnäkkövaunu (charge wagon) is quite possible. However, more probable is that as sort of sub-type of tank name would be rynnäkköpanssarivaunu (charge armor wagon). In spoken language...

  14. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    Finnish terms About your finnish terms. Finland has never used word säiliö meaning tank(direct translation) From beginning we took our direction from germans and their word panzer. So finnish word for tank is panssarivaunu (literally armorwagon). It's common when spoken just say panssari like...

  15. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    Finnish language Loving the detail of the story, just commenting name of the system. Kotkansilmissä means literally in the eyes of the eagle. Correct spelling for eyes of the eagle is kotkansilmät. However system name would be in finnish Kotkansilmä (eye of the eagle, eagle eye). It would be...

  16. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    Spelling Love the story, just correcting spelling. It should be Pommituslentolaivue 666 (laivue=squadron). If you want term for equivalent of wing ( multiple squadrons) correct term is lennosto. For subunit of squadron, three or four planes, use term parvi.

  17. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    You really have created fantastic wank and as a finn i can say its a hoot. I know very well its really unrealistic but don't care. Though, it would be fun if some really well versed in Finnish history would create more realistic wank someday. There would actually be really good PoD in 19th...

  18. Vinland –the bountiful refuge.

    Both versions are good. So I suggest compromise. In my opinion Draco's empire is too big to be controlled anyway. Even with succession planned and in place Draco's death would easily cause attempts secede from empire and end result could be one big state and several smaller in peripheries. Most...

  19. Build a world like Heinlein Starship Troopers

    I remember reading an article somwhere in the net about this subject. Heinlein had been asked about voting franchise and limiting it military service veterans only. While the book definately suggests that there is only military federal service ( but never says it clearly) at least later Heinlein...

  20. Settling Acounts: Drive to the east

    member I want to dispute previous conclusions that title 'drive to the east' means confederate attack toward east and battle of Pittsburgh. Turtledove obviously is writing mirror image of WW2 with many parallels but I don't see him slaved to actual campaigns. Especially in this case I don't see...
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