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  1. Malaya What If

    Costs , limited scale of production (up to 250 per year) of replacement torpedoes and bureaucratic infighting. Essentially, Bureau of Ordnance insisted that only their tests can be correct, and if the Navy wants to waste some torpedoes, let them say to Congress which budgetary items they will...

  2. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    I suppose it should be those Imperial Japanese Army escort carries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashio_Maru-class_escort_carrier

  3. The Footprint of Mussolini - TL

    Grabbed a copy, while electrons were still warm.

  4. Ghastly Victories: The United States in the World Wars

    My two cents: Cow (transitive verb) :to destroy the resolve or courage of ; to frighten someone into doing something, using threats or violence; Sources (please scroll down to verb): Merriam - Webster Cambridge Dictionary

  5. Help Finding A Story

    Yes, it does. 'Waiting for the Olympians' by Frederick Pohl As per https://www.librarything.com/work/2423303 the story was firstly published in 'The 1989 Annual World's Best SF', most recently published in 'The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories' .

  6. Book recommendations for alternate history with tech anachronism or gap

    Yes, that's the series. They've also brought medieval political mindset into dealing with modern world.

  7. Book recommendations for alternate history with tech anachronism or gap

    Maybe not quite what you are looking for, but I will recommend Merchant Princes series by Charles Stross. Very extended clans of secret world jumpers (Late medieval world to the world of mostly OTL) use their insane profits and pieces of otherworldly technology to achieve status of main...

  8. Aside from Axis or Confederate victory, what is the most common AH scenario?

    There is a short novel published in Polish "Królowa Joanna d'Arc" (Queen Joan d'Arc). Primary POD is when Joan hears two voices from heaven: one says "Go to Compiegne and be received in Heaven as venerated martyr", second voice said "Go and lead a crusade against Hussites ". Secondary POD is...

  9. Any good AH stories about a failed American Revolution?

    Mainly short stories, see Uchronia.com list for divergences circa 1776 http://uchronia.com/bib.cgi/diverge.html?o=500 An interesting book is 'The Two Georges' by Turtledove and Dreyfuss. Two hundred years after reconciliation between American colonies and Great Britain, treasonous subversives...

  10. How many alternate history books are available in your language?

    Well, situation in Poland is quite different. Starting form the 70's, any SF & F literature that was not deemed to be anti - communistic could be translated - in small amount of titles, but in high number of books printed. Among them were some books like The Man in High Castle. After Spring of...

  11. Hearts of Iron IV Thread

    Maybe this will help a bit: https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Beginner%27s_guide

  12. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    The usual (callous) way of SU: "Those enemies of the workers were sentenced by people's court to 15 years of gulag without mail privileges". That was official line on most victims of purges.

  13. When AH Becomes Propaganda: A Vile Tale of Chickenhawk Russian AH writers in East Ukraine

    The book www.1939.com.pl (yes, this is book title, not a webpage) opens the whole series https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/4137688.Marcin_Ciszewski First Separate Recon Battalion trained for NATO mission in Afghanistan (mechanised battalion(+) ) is transferred to September of 1939. Author is...

  14. Recommend me some AH Books.

    I would like to recommend some AH crime stories. A standalone by Michael Chabon: 'The Yiddish Policeman Union'. POD: Jewish immigrants allowed to settle in refugee district near Sitka, Alaska. And tangentially AH Arabesk cycle (or Ashraf Bey cycle) by John Courtenay Grimwood. Crime/techno books...

  15. Crusader Kings II - Paradox Entertainement (02/12)

    For asnys: After testing a bit - no you cannot raid as Christian Viking, if you do not have generic Norse culture (a thing of the past in 1066). Apparently, boat raiding is seen as faux pas by Danish, Norwegian nad Swedish cultures:frown:. Until 1100 you can holy war only when sharing land...

  16. Crusader Kings II - Paradox Entertainement (02/12)

    My thoughts on your thoughts: 1) Going a-viking is great. Being Pagan really helps, as you've said. 2) As far as I remember, neither Sweden nor Denmark have at that date law that forbids wars between King's vassals. As for Prince Erik A), I wouldn't got your hopes high, B) is somewhat possible...

  17. Europa Universalis IV - 13 August 2013

    I second Arsonist's advice, but I would wait for next Steam / Paradox sale.

  18. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 2

    Beware of exciting it too much, though. It will forget itself and try to lick you with a few tongues of fire ;)

  19. Axis of Time sequels

    No, no, no. It's the other way round. Stalin said it historically was the butler who did it, until the time that those pesky Transitioned have had appeared. So, in the interest of historical inevitability, Stalin has assumed butler role, to allow Better and Brighter (TM) Future to be realised...

  20. Axis of Time sequels

    For the most part, yes. And of course with a few unexpected twists ;)
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