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Are there any well-written alternate histories about possible naval wars in the 1880-1890s or the 20s and 30s? Thanks in advance.

Hope it's ok to ask this here. I'm looking for a history book which is readable but still academic that details the last two hundred years or so of the Roman Empire. It should be relatively recently written, and not a purely social history, purely military etc. but should have a relatively...

Opinion duly ignored.

Jeez. Stop with the barracks-room history lesson and put the CS Lewis away, do us all a favor.

Can't do that, because they never had one. Furthermore, when are there ever "one shot" chances of winning a war?

Question: is there a minor bit of technology which was just on the horizon for the Western allies which would have made rescues of allied prisoners slightly more feasible than it was, i.e. wouldn't result in deaths of a significant number of those who were to be rescued? I'm not thinking of...

Source? For either claim, I mean.

This is a really terrible, long thread. Yikes.

This is easily one of the worst threads I've ever seen here.

So what if Bale played The Joker, and Batman both?

Bold type makes assertions both more convincing and factual. On the internet, anyhow.

So the knight was an equally dominant weapon on the battlefields of 13th century europe as it was on the battlefields of 15th century europe?

Here is the challenge: (This entire post applies to Western Europe) Starting a bit before 1300, cavalry was pretty quickly supplanted by infantry. Said cavalrymen began fighting on foot instead, and massed formations of infantry, including infantry armed with missile weapons and pikes took...

So an Australian Hawaii is more likely, as mentioned in your sig? Am I missing the point entirely of AH Challenges? I thought the point was that the responders were supposed to do their best to make this happen, not respond with 100 different reasons why it's impossible.

AH challenge threads end up pretty interesting when most of the responses consist of people saying theyre impossible over and over again, dont they..:rolleyes: