What would it take to invade the British Isles?

Saphroneth

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I think there was a rather fun ASB thread which concluded that you could hit Spithead with a meteorite in any given naval review year in the 19th century and the RN would still be able to beat any other single navy.


When you're talking about an alliance of convenience between two European powers AND a convenient meteorite, you're no longer discussing a plausible TL but a pulp novel.


It'd be an awesome pulp novel, though. "The Falling Stars of Nelson"?
 
1650 - .............. No chance would they ally with Catholic France to destroy a Protestant nation on their flank.
Nonesense, this is the mid 17th century. Religion wasn't that important anymore for the Dutch*. They had already allied with France agaist the Spanish. If there is a reason to ally with France against the English they would do it.

*A couple of years later, can't remember which war, but I think it was the Franco-Dutch war, the pope supported the protestant Dutch against the catholic French. The age of real politic was very close and the Dutch and the French were one of the first to enter it.
 
I think there was a rather fun ASB thread which concluded that you could hit Spithead with a meteorite in any given naval review year in the 19th century and the RN would still be able to beat any other single navy.


When you're talking about an alliance of convenience between two European powers AND a convenient meteorite, you're no longer discussing a plausible TL but a pulp novel.


It'd be an awesome pulp novel, though. "The Falling Stars of Nelson"?

You've got to write this. Nowadays being nowadays, it's probably classifiable as 'x-punk', though I'm not sure of the value of x.

Let's try a blurb:

"Following Napoleon Bonaparte's pact with General Zod of Krypton to direct an asteroid towards the destruction of the British Empire, the forces of the Paris-St Petersburg Axis are free to cross the Channel. Seeking to defend his kingdom from the Cossack hordes and the marshals of the Empereur whilst also struggling with his own mental inner demons, George III of Great Britain has no choice but to sign the Thangorodrim Accord with Morgoth Bauglir, turning to dark and unknown powers in a desperate last resort to repel a foe whose technological prowess has stretched beyond what is known to mankind…"
 
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