Snake Featherston
Banned
Lessee....I have a good list, here's just a snippet of it:
1) Nuclear Weapons. Why? How many times have they been used since 1945 (and we Yankeestanis used them)? How many wars have happened between nuclear powers without using them (and I don't mean proxy wars, either)? How much does nuclear winter compare to say, the Yellowstone Supervolcano?
2) Swords. Bloody damn things are hard to use and don't cut armor very well. So, what did people use instead? Pikes or maces. Same with their Japanese versions, Samurai were using arquebuses for centuries before Perry came calling.
3) The entire German Panzer line. Not enough of the ones the Germans needed, too much on superweapons that gobbled up way too much of the budget. A good thing for those the Nazis intended to conquer, but still...exorbitantly wasteful.
4) Big-ass walls built to keep out barbarians. Hadrian's Wall and the Great Wall did what again?
5) The Analytical Engine. Good God, even if it had worked, the Computer Revolution required WWII to start the whole shebang. A more successful analytical engine isn't going to have the government financing it like happened with the Internet.
and....
6) Agriculture. For some reason, the conquest of sedentary societies is always inevitable, and the emergence of larger-scale nomadic cultures is ignored. Even in timelines with agriculture, not every one of them is going to develop the kind of mechanized agriculture that exists in the US and Europe, and also nomadic peoples are ignored in terms of TLs as a whole.
1) Nuclear Weapons. Why? How many times have they been used since 1945 (and we Yankeestanis used them)? How many wars have happened between nuclear powers without using them (and I don't mean proxy wars, either)? How much does nuclear winter compare to say, the Yellowstone Supervolcano?
2) Swords. Bloody damn things are hard to use and don't cut armor very well. So, what did people use instead? Pikes or maces. Same with their Japanese versions, Samurai were using arquebuses for centuries before Perry came calling.
3) The entire German Panzer line. Not enough of the ones the Germans needed, too much on superweapons that gobbled up way too much of the budget. A good thing for those the Nazis intended to conquer, but still...exorbitantly wasteful.
4) Big-ass walls built to keep out barbarians. Hadrian's Wall and the Great Wall did what again?
5) The Analytical Engine. Good God, even if it had worked, the Computer Revolution required WWII to start the whole shebang. A more successful analytical engine isn't going to have the government financing it like happened with the Internet.
and....
6) Agriculture. For some reason, the conquest of sedentary societies is always inevitable, and the emergence of larger-scale nomadic cultures is ignored. Even in timelines with agriculture, not every one of them is going to develop the kind of mechanized agriculture that exists in the US and Europe, and also nomadic peoples are ignored in terms of TLs as a whole.