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  1. Decades of Darkness

    This is a cop-out. You can't figure out how to actually get the Germans to succeed in the landings, and so write a beautiful post that doesn't address the question. What are they doing off Senegal? Raids? Sailing south with everything they have and sink every transport on the first few...

  2. Decades of Darkness

    Thirty-one thousand, one hundred and twenty-four men were scheduled to land on the first day, and they will all die. They will die when their transport ships strike mines and sink, or when their ships are bombed by Yankee skycraft. They will die when their landing craft are struck by shells or...

  3. No courtly love

    Pretty influential, yeah. I'll have a more substantive response once I have more time to read and think, but some notes from abstract browsing on google scholar and jstor; prefaced by some thoughts A couple thoughts, then notes below. (1) In some sense, courtly love's social implications...

  4. Decades of Darkness

    Yeah, but it took a couple days to fail, and troops would have kept getting pushed onto the beaches. More importantly, the transports the support troops were on would have been shredded. True, but most of those ships were lost during the evacuation, while mostly stationary, and without enemy...

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  6. Decades of Darkness

    Scary, well written, good to have you back, brilliant. Does not compute. Where the hell is the German edge in naval shipping coming from? The Germans had a slight edge in numbers of ships when the war began, this is true. And then lost a huge fraction of their fleet in the wreck of the...

  7. The Peshawar Lancers Reboot Thread

    Basically, when carrying capacity drops below the level of the population, the population doesn't drop to that level but rather crashes far below it. People need enough to eat, and protection from people without enough to eat. Four basic things to consider. (1) For all practical intents...

  8. Decades of Darkness

    You know, you really shouldn't make a postwar map without first knowing the postwar circumstances. Tis kind of silly. And misinformed. Hence several things are already known to be wrong: 1) The US takes Bolivia (peons building railways across the altiplano towards La Paz) 2) Remind me...

  9. The Legacy of Sun Yat-sen

    Well, seems like somebody bit off more than he could chew. Couldn't have happened to a nicer fellow. A few thoughts: I hope that you don't go for the "assassinating Hitler" route (as per your other thread). IMHO the plotters remain incompetent, cowardly, incompetent backstabbing, and...

  10. Decades of Darkness

    First things first. This is really good writing. Props. I guess it wasn't exactly unexpected, but this is still a bummer. The Jackals will be having a field day over this (see! see! the negro cannot live in a civilized manner!)[1]. Further thoughts: All well done and plausible, but this...

  11. German Strategic Bombing on the Eastern Front: Better, the same, or different?

    The cheap answer is that if Germany is building a big strategic bomber arm, then it isn't doing something else. Leaving that aside... A decent German strategic bomber arm still means that most Soviet heavy industry is out of range. Strategic bombing is expensive in men, machines, and...

  12. The Legacy of Sun Yat-sen

    Wow. History has just totally jumped the tracks... So Japan attacked China so that it could gain Manchuria to build up strength to attack Russia, then got bogged down, and so attacked Russia so that Russia would stop aiding China so that Japan could gain Manchuria in order to build up... (...

  13. Decades of Darkness

    continuing as Britain's advocate... possibly, arguably. Thus the KM will be willing to cut their losses more rapidly than the RN: they don't like the idea of being reduced to a naval also-ran in exchange for sinking the RN to the last tugboat. The losses would be dreadful, and equally so...

  14. Decades of Darkness

    Wow. I'm amazed that the leadup to this... aquatic wonder has gone so unanswered. I'm not saying it isn't possible [possibly it is] but this merits vigorous interrogation. I. The Four Questions: As usual, the four basic questions: "(1) * * How are troops transported. ?(2) * * How...

  15. A Greater Britain, Mk2

    This is always a good thing.:)

  16. A Greater Britain, Mk2

    This is always a good thing.:)

  17. Decades of Darkness

    France, Winter 1930-1931 France, in the last winter that there was a France. At least for a time.

  18. Decades of Darkness

    Merde Honest Abe was a wise man. The plaque is an interesting variation on Truman, who Harlan Porter vaguely seems to resemble. I wonder the plaque in the Oval Office* says ("The purpose of power is power"?) This is so depressing. Also, what a nice Vitalist flag. Random Thought...

  19. Decades of Darkness

    heh An aquatic mammal is hunting Britain... damn straight! I suppose that this should make us feel better If this is a just peace, France is screwed. Then one fine day in the 1940s, the German government gets to wake up to realize that all the "Frogs and Wops" they annexed...

  20. Decades of Darkness

    On further reflection, I can see the Germans getting over the western Apennines in places by mid-November. Say the offensive starts in June, and it takes two weeks to break the Italian lines in Lombardy, followed by a month pushing them out of Germany, and then three weeks breaking the defensive...
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