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  1. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    Same way the Nazis managed to scrape together >400,000 men for the Bulge at the end of '44 (about where TTL Confederates seem to be), and >200,000 for Spring Awakening, in March '45. As far as they're concerned, they have nothing left to lose.

  2. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    It was, pretty much. Also, this TL is the cat's whiskers!

  3. When Adam delved, and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?

    There was no realistic prospect of a peaceful settlement with Richard II, or any high lord. Those... people felt they had no obligation to keep their word when dealing with mere peasants in rebellion; 1381 was by no means the only bottom-up revolt that collapsed when the ruling elites lured the...

  4. Biggest Possible Ottoman Empire

    I'd have them focus more on naval-based expansion into peninsular/coastal territories such as Italy, Sicily, eventually Iberia, southern Arabia, the Horn of Africa and such. Not necessarily all in one TL, never mind century. But naval power is where it's at IMO, as land-based logistics and...

  5. What if Jesus became the Roman emperor?

    1. He wouldn't be the Jesus we know and 2. They would assassinate him.

  6. AHC prevent Old World civilizations from discovering the Americas until after 1900

    Anyway, even if the Muslims win Iberia and France permanently, what's to stop them from exploring? Edit: My simple ASB answer to the OP's question: a big meteor hits central Europe in 1450 or so. Every country in Europe and North Africa is wiped out, civilization is set back a few centuries...

  7. Latest POD for Independent Scotland?

    Not that I'm an expert, but that sounds to me like Stuart GB would be the ideal scenario, but if that was not to be had (and I very much doubt it was) they'd settle for independent Scotland.

  8. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    Clausewitz is groaning in his grave: "I warned them about this..." As for the cover, the gradient and blue versions are superior. Awesome TL, as before!

  9. What is the most foreign support the Union could have received during the Civil War?

    This. The last thing Lincoln&Co. wanted, maybe even ahead of losing the ACW, was for some foreign power(s) to be able to puff their chest all over the international scene: "Yeah, those colonials don't know what they're doing, we had to send actual professionals and sort their backyard out for...

  10. A much harder occupation of the CSA?

    ^This. Also, for all the bloodletting of the ACW, and the centuries of barbarism toward natives and blacks, I just don't see a hard occupation happening. Another people might put up with the cost in blood and gold, but 1860s-70s Americans engaging in the ruthless suppression, complete with the...

  11. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    If we recall the fighting in 1813-14 after the loss of the Grande Armee, especially the Campaign in NE France in '14, Napoleon did find that difficult. Awesome timeline, by the way. I might be kinda bummed out that it isn't plausible to put this version of McClellan before a firing squad, but...

  12. How plausible is a Nazi peace deal with Britain in 1940?

    Not likely, IMO. Supposing no Churchill (dead, retired, disgraced, whatever), I think the UK might well open peace talks with the Nazis, but those talks will fall through before long. The aims of the two regimes were irreconcilable and as others have mentioned, by this point the Nazis were...

  13. Is serfdom compatible with industrialisation?

    @Raferty I see. I think. If I do, all these bad debts are then being foisted on the Chinese taxpayer (ain't modern iterations of unfree labour just 'great'?). Well, the Chinese taxpayer base is so huge it can absorb a lot of bad ideas, but that doesn't stop this from looking like a tremendously...

  14. Roman pike Vs Rathamusala

    If the enemy is too offended at being faced with such a silly weapon to give battle, it might win.

  15. Is serfdom compatible with industrialisation?

    @Raferty This is fair. Only... by TARP you mean the US Dept. of Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program, right? I'm not American, it could mean 100 other things to me and some might even make sense in your sentence. Also, our friends in the CCP can thank their one child policy and Confucian...

  16. Permanent Medieval Age?

    @Fabius Maximus There's something to that as well, although Western Europe was firmly in the ascendant long before the Industrial Revolution. I think the point period of no return was the 2nd half of the XVIIth Century. The Peace of Westphalia put an end to the most destructive period of warfare...

  17. Is serfdom compatible with industrialisation?

    Compatible in the short term, and only if one or the other is an import. In the long term it tends to break down - there is only so much foreign markets can do, especially when you antagonize them. This, by the way, is the main reason for the economic failure of communism (although Commie...

  18. Permanent Medieval Age?

    @sampleswift Sparta was actually over-focused on oppressing the helots and keeping them down, along with anyone who didn't qualify to be Spartiates. Whose reputation as the super-badasses of Greece (or even the Ancient world) has been massively overinflated. I also think the Golden Age of Islam...

  19. Permanent Medieval Age?

    I think the only possibility to arrest the progress of civilization... ...is unfree labour: slavery especially, but serfdom will do in a pinch. If this can be maintained, without lengthy interruptions, and consist of the overwhelming majority of a civilization's economic activity, on the scale...

  20. Domesticated human slaves

    That implication is a product of your imagination. I only meant to say that (IMO) obedience has been selected for way too much.
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