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  1. Mikey's Roman Timeline Draft

    Honestly, Antony wouldn't think that Caesarion was "the true heir" of Caesar; Roman leaders siring bastards with foreigners was a common thing (Caesar was also said to have sired a child by a Gallic princess, and one of Sulla's bastards became a German king). These foreign-born bastards weren't...

  2. Challenge: Neo-Con World

    Yeah, basically what Peter and Matt said. Besides, neocons are the ones that call people like FDR "socialists" to begin with. Hah, I'm a socialist, and I'm offended that someone like FDR would be placed in my camp.

  3. Chinese victory in Sino-Soviet War: Operation Snow Men

    China is nuked off the face of the earth. The USSR had more silos than the Chinese could possibly know about (not to mention the ever-moving rail-carried missiles and the like). My brother's father-in-law's brother used to command some tiny God-forsaken island near Alaska that had something...

  4. WI the French Army had 600 Renault G1 R Tank in April 1940

    Just as far as they went OTL. As I explained in the Rainy May thread, quantity (or even quality!) doesn't matter to the Allies at this point; they simply don't use what they do have the way they should use it. If France had gotten 600 more tanks (albeit very good tanks for the time), they...

  5. Who's the Worst Dictator?

    Actually, robert, the Mongols didn't wipe out entire cities because they felt the people were useless (or, rather, not entirely, or even mainly, because of that); rather, they did it as a psychological tactic (and an extremely brutal one, I might add): when one city refused to demand to...

  6. A rainy May in France 1940

    Again, you keep saying that they would have more planes. Lets look at all the facts here. It would start raining one week into May, and then for the duration of the month Well, considering that the attack in the west began with a great airborne assault on May 10, I'm guessing this wouldn't...

  7. Carthage Triumphant

    ROTFLMAO!! Possibly the single funniest snap I have ever read in my entire life. Honestly. LMAO.

  8. A rainy May in France 1940

    Why can't they wait 3 weeks? Remember the Phony War? This would just become an extension of it, quite simply. Worst comes to worst, they withdraw from the territories they took in the West momentarily, and then strike again once the conditions are clear. Even an unusually rainy May would give...

  9. A rainy May in France 1940

    They can get closer if they want: they have nothing like Stukas (in fact, no effective ground-attack plane at all), and they still won't use tanks effectively. France had a lot more tanks than Germany did, and in the few times that they did something close to massing them, they were able to hold...

  10. AH Gov't Ideas

    I've always been partial to Platoism, myself; Plato's Republic became the model for the Platonic Republic in my Light in the East TL. Basically, a system where there are a small number of elite that rule, who receive a comprehensive education, and (at the highest Council level) have absolute...

  11. WWI Peace in 1916

    How about this? 1916 (not going to go into monthly details, this is really broad): Woodrow Wilson makes several pro-war comments, including "we're going to have to go after the Germans soon, and we'll just have to find a way to get the public to support it." This is leaked to the media, which...

  12. A rainy May in France 1940

    Regardless of how much French production kicks in, it would be pointless; as many of you said yourselves, France learned to fight the Blitzkrieg near the end of the Battle of France, not one week into it. The French can produce as much as they want, but they will still parcel out AT guns and...

  13. 2pac and Biggie survives to ths day

    Well, if, for whatever reason, Eminem didn't surface... Rap would eventually become a black-only thing, much like jazz and blues (not saying there are no other races involved in this, but it is heavily involved in the black community). Just like rock and roll, the style needs a white...

  14. 2pac and Biggie survives to ths day

    Or they'd both end up being overshadowed by Eminem, just like Snoop Dogg and a host of others. Rap became really, really popular when Eminem came in; that gave the millions of white kids who enjoyed listening to rap but didn't want to be labeled "wiggers" a figure to rally around (and rally they...

  15. Alternate World War One - - Part One

    Uhm... Restudy the Schlieffen Plan (and I personally won't hear any of this new "it actually didn't exist" stuff). It called for a circling BEHIND Paris, not heading directly towards it; that is basically what von Moltke ended up doing. Also, Germany probably wouldn't have annexed Luxembourg...

  16. WWI Peace in 1916

    Yeah. It would have meant revolution; this was getting to the point where each side needed to win to get the other side to pay for the war. At this point there are already hundreds of thousands dead on each side, and the populaces would scream if they weren't given the victory. On the other...

  17. Bad AH you just HATE!

    Oh, I agree wholeheartedly; however, the fact that it doesn't always go that way is enough to render a lot of criticism about US-defeating TLs null. Besides, a lot of these PODs (and even invasions) occur at a time when US industry was pathetically inferior compared to Europe, and the US...

  18. Bad AH you just HATE!

    It would ultimately fail? In other words... the US is invincible? There are quite a lot of ways for the US to lose in a lot of different timelines before nuclear missiles become available. The one I had about a victorious Japan was plausible, and not even unlikely; the only reason it isn't...

  19. Bad AH you just HATE!

    I'm actually the opposite; I hate this invincibility idea that people here have, to the extent that "we can invade anywhere and destroy but damned if it can happen here." No, the beast can bleed, even if it is the king beast in the menagerie.

  20. The Missiles Aren't Snuck In

    Yeah... that kind of would start World War III. Kennedy's OTL action, while illegal, was just pacifist enough to leave the ball in Khrushchev's court, who decided that it wasn't worth the Big One. But if the US just attacks Cuba (when you say "first strike" you mean a nuclear attack, too)...
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