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  1. DtF Challenge - Build Your Own Protectorate

    Just as an aside, Juniper wasn't exactly that benevolent. In order to protect her people she was quite willing to drive off / see others starve. Hard times mean hard decisions. In many ways the state Arminger built was almost admirable and probably no worse than medieval Europe once the...

  2. Worst miltary commander

    Well, there are a fair number of candidates other than those already mentioned Rennenkampf / Samsonov in East Prussia 1914 Conrad - lost big time to the Russians in 1914 Corap and Huntziger - France 1940 Budenny - SU 1941 Saddam Hussein - GW1 and 2 Galtieri / Menendez -...

  3. The League of Nations a Reality?

    Yes, and the Occupied South could have somehow been reconstructed as viable US States instead of the festering sinks of rebellion they have become....;)

  4. DBWI: What if Sealion had... failed?

    Maybe Hitler could have had such a case of tunnel vison that he built one....the London-Paris-Berlin express opened in 1945 has become the classic 5th column story even if tanks rolling down Whitehall from Waterloo is a bit of cliched theme.

  5. Different Allied 'Ace' policy.

    With due respect to pilots on all sides, kill figures are unreliable - I'm dubious about RAF figures - the 185 kills on Sept 15th may be as few as 55, and am certainly doubtful about German and Soviet figures. Any fighter pilot tracking a kill cannot be be keeping track of the battle and is...

  6. AH Challenge: The Gladiator TL

    Going out on a limb here...No suppression of the Prague Spring...Western Europe assumes some form of democratic socialism within the Warsaw Pact is possible. Possibly the Paris riots lead to a more left-wing France rather than a De Gaulle presidency. Greater anti-US agitation over...

  7. Churchill as Fascist

    He would probably have gone the way of Mosely had he joined the BUF - remember, he wasn't that popular in the 1930s.

  8. Inconclusive WW1

    I'm confused. What China-Japan war? China wasn't fighting the Japanese in WW1. The Japanese attacked and took the German enclave at Tsingtao..that is all. The 20 demands date from 1894 well before WW1. Also, well before the US-Spanish War, the Boxer Rebellion (in which the US, European...

  9. Inconclusive WW1

    Why would the USA go to war with Japan over China? It didn't in OTL - World War 2 was Japan attacking the USA and even after that the USA followed a Europe First strategy. So far as WW1 is concerned. No unrestricted U Boat war means no casus belli for the USA. The Zimmerman telegram might...

  10. In at the Death- *SPOILERS*

    Disregarding the nukes bit - given the dilution of effort and resources in Turtledove's timeline, the idea that any one country could develop an A-bomb is farfetched - where did the bombers to drop them come from? There is nothing to suggest that B-29 or Lancaster bombers (the only ones that...

  11. An Armoured Warfare Revolution

    A better armoured BEF would be somewhere inside Belgium whilst the Germans were astride the Somme, In fact, the further inside Belgium the BEF was, the worse it would be as its supply lines were cut. As the Germans learnt at Stalingrad, an effective modern army is of little value if its support...

  12. Different US Neutrality 1914

    It depends on how much the US wants to break the blockade and the legality thereof. Technically, blockade was only of territorial waters but, following precedent, the UK extended this to international waters. The US blockade of the CSA provided a legal basis for this interpretation. In...

  13. The Lost Regiment Sereis by William R. Forstchen

    So-so I guess..where were the star-faring interstellar lizards?

  14. Day After Tomorrow in your Region

    I'd be tucked up snug and warm knowing how very unlikely the scenario was. OK film, lousy science.

  15. All the OTL maps from 500 CE to 2007

    Great work Just thinking what a shame all the pink bits vanished...:D

  16. Your region in Dies the Fire?

    Maybe so Rain, but they would be demoralised, maybe hungry and quantity has a quality of its own. Seriously, they would be in the position of a garrison of a city under assault. Once it is clear you are losing, discipline goes to hell as the troops start to think of their own and their...

  17. WI no Aircraft Carriers

    No carriers.. so no Pearl Harbor (no Taranto either and how might that affect the RN in the Med ?). All that happens is the Japanese attack the US in the Philipines and Marianas by air from Formosa and amphibious landings as per OTL. Then, when the US fleet sorties across the Pacific it is met...

  18. Your region in Dies the Fire?

    I was interested in the prevailing view that the military would try to keep to things going until an eventual collapse. The one specific military unit I can recall (I've only read the first book and snatches of book 2 and posts about the series) was the Household cavalry / SAS portions of the UK...

  19. Carving Up the UK

    OK, I'll grant you Cornwall wasn't part of Anglo-Saxon England although William did make his half-brother Robert Duke of Cornwall in 1068 and replaced the native cornish aristocracy with mainly Breton nobles. One could argue that the situation with Cornwall is similar to that of Wales, a Celtic...

  20. Carving Up the UK

    Oops, regarding Scotland. However, the Scotland that existed pre-1066 covered a smaller area than existing Scotland with areas like the Western Isles, Orkney, Shetland being part of Norway (albeit with native gaelic chiefs). The Treat of Perth, 1266, transferred the Western Isles to Scotland...
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