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  1. Graphic Thread

    I know the feeling, I recently spent 5 years living in Köln and I now sometimes fail at English and end up with an inverse Denglisch. I'll have a think about integrating the eagle and flag and map. It might take me a while, I've got a cold and my head feels like it's full of sand.

  2. Graphic Thread

    For something that's set, I assume, in an ATL 2020, it feels a bit too 90s early computer graphics to me. Not very precise, I know, but that's the best phrase that springs to mind so far. I think it might benefit from being less cluttered but more striking at the same time. I think I'd like...

  3. Redrawing Every Country's Subdivisions

    To echo @...Clear.As.Christal... , very happy to see a Westfalen. Also happy to see Lübeck, Franken and Braunschweig, and I do like where you've run a lot of the new borders. But I have three points: 1) It's Württemberg, 2) Your Rhein-Franken has nothing to do with what anyone these days sees...

  4. Which version is historically accurate for the Netherlands in 500 AD?

    From what I know, and can find online in Dutch, the short answer is "Neither, but the right-hand one is closer". The Flevomeer should definitely be closed up like you have it there. The left-hand one looks more like the 1500s to me. But it's apparent that a huge part of the coastal areas were...

  5. Flag Thread V

    From having a dig through the category of Bavarian orders and medals on the unavoidable wikipedia (in German), by far the majority of the badges used the Maltese cross rather than the Prussian cross pattée, especially if you ignore the orders that post-date the actual OTL unification. So I'd...

  6. Return of the terrible flag thread.

    If you assume it's a US date, or an East Asian one without a year at the start, then it's 25th April. Obviously the Korean People's Army are all massive fans of the Asterix books and wanted to commemorate Albert Uderzo's birthday :) Or if you want to place any faith in the Infallible Genocide...

  7. 8mm to the Left: If Hitler Died in 1923

    The other trend that suggests itself from OTL is the All-India Movement, which strove for independence, as a federal state, for the whole of British India without splitting the country up along religious lines. If you could avoid millions of people displaced by Partition, and the associated...

  8. 8mm to the Left: If Hitler Died in 1923

    For the official name, I don't know for certain what we'd have done. I suspect it depends on which party's doing it and how they want to spin it. But returning to "Kingdom of Great Britain" might be useful from a legal perspective given that it existed from 1707 to 1801, so you've already got...

  9. Flag Thread V

    I'd not heard of a rule about round s after tall letters - certainly the things I have in German with German blackletter in don't do that (e.g. a Cassel's Dictionary listing all the Gleich- compounds giving examples like gleichſinning and gleichſeitig), and the fewer sources I have for British...

  10. Flag Thread V

    It's possible that Polish has different traditions, that I'm not aware of, different to the way that British, Dutch and German people used them when they were both still used, but based on all the contemporary usage I've seen thus far, you've got your long and round 's's the wrong way round. As...

  11. Flag Thread V

    That makes it look like a blue speech bubble to me, as though it's a character in a Candy Cane Land speaking only in Stars.

  12. A New Coat of Arms Thread

    I mean, "arms" is literally just the shield and what's on it. Everything else counts as, IIRC, "achievements" in the way English labels heraldry. So the toise and Phrygian cap together form a crest, which is part of the achievement of arms for your Cumberland. There's a common labelling...

  13. 8mm to the Left: If Hitler Died in 1923

    Should a member of the Kamarilla catch wind of that idea though, even if it's a really fringe view or something said sarcastically, then might the thought not occur that they could play this up, via the newspapers that they own for example? If the public opinion of the navy were to drop, and...

  14. 8mm to the Left: If Hitler Died in 1923

    That's my understanding too, more specifically that he finished the war as an Oberleutnant but was able to apply for a, let's say retrospective promotion* to Hauptmann after he received his discharge papers from the Reichswehr in 1920 due to their not being allowed an air force any longer. *...

  15. Graphic Thread

    For the German one, it's a direct translation of English and it makes sense in German, but it feels very Denglish still. As in, German speakers encountered the English phrase first and then translated it. The more native OTL current German phrasing is usually "Sicherheit geht vor", though I've...

  16. Flag Thread V

    My only double-take was the notion of a republican Germany including a monarchist crown anywhere in their symbols. Otherwise it's pretty cool.

  17. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    Sorry, I have no idea how to work that out. I can do the radius vs mass vs density vs surface gravity thanks to some equations I picked up from a Youtube channel called Artifexian, he's an Irish guy doing a long-running series on world-building etc that started from 'create your star' and is...

  18. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    Completely so. Even the orbit would only be different by a very miniscule degree, enough that you could ignore it as a rounding error for AH story-telling purposes. As to whether it would be warm enough, on average, on the surface to retain liquid water, IDK. I don't know how to calculate...

  19. AHC: Ethnic-nationalism in the British Raj, not pan-Indianism

    I get what you mean. I do suspect, though, that that would lead to a Neo-Mughal Empire instead, as in you still get an All India trajectory, but it speaks Persian (to begin with) and later Urdu as a national language, and calls itself Hindustan.

  20. AHC: Ethnic-nationalism in the British Raj, not pan-Indianism

    I could see @twovultures suggestion coming about from an infatuation with the Roman Empire, and deciding to copy the princple they had with non-citizen subjects who joined the army - deploy them as far as possible from their native culture and language. But I think @Madhukar_Shah has a more...
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