Stronger surviving Northumbria is my bag baby.
You’d need to cut down ties and wealth flowing to Kent and the South from the continent though and have it survive the Vikings
The thing about these regimes is they always look rock solid... until they suddenly collapse. I can very much see something give way with a much larger pool of young men alive and well combined with a lack of Great Patriotic War propaganda enforcing loyalty to the motherland providing the...
The post war East End is going to be a very different place without all those bomb sites and excuses for construction.
It might even make a lot more cohesive working class Vs the planners movement if there's fewer damaged sound around to use as a basis for clearance.
I don't think so but whats different in the UK tends to be the ability of trains to fit in tunnels and navigate stretches of the line with large loads. No double deckers or overly large tanks.
If anyone is still in touch with the author I'd love them to persuade him up publish this.
Either self published for an ebook or with Sealion Press (for that sweet hard copy version)
You hide behind a big shield, the sword stabs from behind it, you repeat until the enemy is dead.
Nice and simple.
Spears are good as well, the Greek pike was great until it became detached from its combined arms approach an increasingly unwieldy in size.
Japan is further away from China than England from Europe and China was happy beating the shit out of the rest of SE Asia.
They are also different countries and cultures on opposite sides of the world. That might explain the differences.