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  1. The Royal Navy vs. the IJN, 1940

    Even if there is no Hitler, the UK will have to watch a rearmed Germany closely. I suspect Japan will expand at Britain's expense, though not as fair as Australia.

  2. Grande Nation

    I think a higher-population France (if possible: I'm interested to see data or a plausible reason to show that an increase in population is plausible) may indeed "win" the Franco-Prussian War (massive butterflies aside), if only because all of those armies called up by Gambetta et al are going...

  3. RIP Vice President Elect Richard Cheney

    Ashcroft, possibly? An in-house candidate that (at the time) wouldn't have been seen as a huge surprise.

  4. Another damn plausibility check: An Ancient Egypt revival

    If they had did have such a capability, why weren't they able to take major cities?

  5. Another damn plausibility check: An Ancient Egypt revival

    Lack of siege equipment would seem to be a fundamental problem. It took years for the Romans (and all their siege skill) to take Alexandria...where are the natives going to get this expertise? Outside aid? If so, you need to find someone to provide it and reasons for them to do so, etc.

  6. Another damn plausibility check: An Ancient Egypt revival

    You need to answer why it didn't happen in OTL, and find ways to counter those reasons. "I think they can pretty much win" isn't enough.

  7. AHC: French-Italian Interbellum war

    That doesn't sound like an ill-thought out computer game scenario.

  8. Lightning From A Clear Sky; or the German-American War over Venezulea

    Rule of thumb from OTL: a fleet loses 10% of its fighting efficiency for every 1000 miles it travels. The German fleet must travel ~5000 miles to get to Puerto Rico from Wilhelmshaven, and over 2200 to get there from the Azores. Assuming cruise speed, the German squadron will need to coal at...

  9. Lightning From A Clear Sky; or the German-American War over Venezulea

    Utter silence on the issues of logistics?

  10. Belle Epoque alliance system without the Habsburg Empire

    All extrapolations were done by me. Anything unmarked with an asterisk, well, you provide the source for! I don't really care; the point was subsidiary as a counter to any possible quibbling about the scenario I discussed. Frankly, debating this is rather tiring and I'll let my points and...

  11. Belle Epoque alliance system without the Habsburg Empire

    I noticed you didn't bother to check anything I wrote before this.

  12. Ghost Cities of the Reich

    Gold star from me, too. Very eerie.

  13. Belle Epoque alliance system without the Habsburg Empire

    Additionally, an 1870/71 partition of Austria-Hungary presupposes that the guy who refused to take the comparatively unimportant Sudetenland in 1866 (Bismarck) changes his mind four years later and annexes the predominant economic and population centers of another Great Power.

  14. Belle Epoque alliance system without the Habsburg Empire

    I took too long with my edit, I see. See my last post for a time-wasting analysis. EDIT: As for possible rebuttals, a few more points: 1. If Austria-Hungary is in the war, Germany obviously doesn't keep so many troops in France, duh. Moltke's war plan in the event of war with France and...

  15. Belle Epoque alliance system without the Habsburg Empire

    How you get, with an 1866 POD, the idea that an Austria beaten down (in tremendously unlikely fashion) by Italy would be more likely to enter war against Prussia than in OTL (i.e., they didn't at all) in 1870, while ignoring the fact that Napoleon III would clearly be more cautious in dealing...

  16. Belle Epoque alliance system without the Habsburg Empire

    Wha...? This is insane. There's even less reason for Austria to join France in this situation!

  17. Austria intervens in the Franco-Prussian War

    You clearly have such a lack of understanding about the scenario that I will dismiss your opinion. ;)

  18. Belle Epoque alliance system without the Habsburg Empire

    Poor Eurofed...unable to source anything, unable to provide evidence for any of his positions, saddled with an ahistorical idea that Austria-Hungary was ready to fall at a moment's notice, and unable to understand the very basic realities behind Italy's economic and diplomatic position.

  19. Belle Epoque alliance system without the Habsburg Empire

    This is one of the two plausible end-states, in my opinion.

  20. DBWI The RMS Titanic Disaster, April 14th 1912

    Interesting POD. The Titanic accident led to the creation of iceberg watches pretty soon after in OTL...I wonder if these would be stepped up in the aftermath of a much greater disaster? Would this have prevented other iceberg collisions? I'm thinking of Grampian in particular.
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