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  1. Evil Empires - Strengths and Weaknesses

    I'm sorry but I think your mistaken. There are numerouse written accounts of Mongols being of variouse religions and denominations. And the Mongols used fear as a tool to intimedate cities to surrender. I think you're basing your knowledge on Muslim historians, who used impracticle numbers...

  2. Evil Empires - Strengths and Weaknesses

    I don't think the mongol empire should be considered evil at all. It was the only empire of its time to allow all religions to practice, and actualy go out of its way to bring them all to the mongol capitol. Trade flourished like never before as the silk road was made nearly completely safe...

  3. 1864 "The South by a nose"

    The reason I think the 40,000 soldiers and militia wouldn't be to big an obstalce, is that the Canadian-US borderhas much more room for manuever. An Army twice the size, or even three times the size, of the British Defenders would easily be able to go around or serround most defences that the...

  4. If the south won the war....

    I don't htinkt he south ever thought they were being denied representation. Remember the variouse compromises concerning the MExican territories were considered Southern victories, as they continued to expanded slaveries bounderies northerward.

  5. 1864 "The South by a nose"

    If with all the supplies in the world, the CSA simply lacks the manpower or the infustructure to transport said supplies to the front line. Also how are CSA agents goin to burn down half of NYC. Also 40,000+ british soldiers and militias would be swept aside by veteran US soldiers. The...

  6. If the south won the war....

    I would say the CSA has a golden period of about a decade with increasiong tensions between the variouse states of petty things (such as when to hold certain holidays) to majory ones (such as how much money to send to the federal gov. and state militias). During this "golden period" more and...

  7. Verdun on the Rappahannock?

    Trench warfare isn't exactly natural to the large confederate/us border. One of the reasons it was so developed ont he Western front is that the area they were fighting in wasn't very large or easy to manuvere in. Unfortunetly most of were the Civil War was fought is the exact opposite.

  8. Catterick

    well they diffenetly adopted Saxon warfare. At Hastings the proffesion body of Harold's army was huscurls, whcih were basicly the bodyguards/lords of a Saxon warchief/king. The reason the Saxon's lasted so long against the Norman calvary was the huscurls would form a wall with their large...

  9. Catterick

    Both groups in the ebate over how mny immigrate still believe that a considerable amount of Saxons, Angles, etc, immigrated, its just how many came over. I mean If there was only a relatively few number of immigrants comming over then wouldn't they be 'britionized' instead of the other way...

  10. Catterick

    I don't see this really stemming the Saxon's and the ilk from comming over to England. Sure it changes the power dynamics on teh island but wouldn't there need to be somthing ont he continent that would change immigration patterns? Maybe this would just increase brition-saxon conflict?

  11. Catterick

    Yes but why would his "knights" go along with his plan, when it clearly means a loss of power? And if you has to fight his vassals, wouldn't that just prompt the other kingdoms to jump into the fray? Also what could be the reason that he needs to centralize? I just don't see this as a probably...

  12. Catterick

    I don't see how any one warlord could maintain a true kingdom ussing early feudalistic government. maybe some sort of "over-king" which loosly ties the other kingdoms togather, but hardly anything like a modern or semi-modern centralized state. Also I don't know if the Rome would put up with a...

  13. Nechtansmere

    I'm sorry but buying off the vikings was effective and was used by Alfred numerouse times to buy time. Here are three examples from the late 900's and early 1000's, after which there was only one attack buy the Vikings, which wasn't a raid to gain wealth, but one of conquest that put Canut on...

  14. Map Challenge: Pax Brittanica

    For all/most of these territories to last to dominion status it would be really gradual acquistion of territories, somthing the othe rEuropean powers wouldn't have allowed.

  15. Map Challenge: Pax Brittanica

    i would say that five years after the map the British empire crumbles.

  16. Nechtansmere

    I think your forgetting that that England was infact conquered by the Vikings numerouse times see Canut the Great, King Sweyn Forkbeard, and the "Heathen Army," which Alfred eventualy defeated. I mean hell in the 800's Alfred the great was one of the few independent kings left and he had to buy...

  17. Nechtansmere

    hmmm. I'm not an expert on the Picts, but I don't see this helping the English resist the Normans much. You still go tthe Vikings, who are goin gto investiably find their way over to England. Unfortunetly I don't see anyway for even a strong Angle-Saxon kingdom defeating the Vikings. The...

  18. Catterick

    The problem is that most of the southern kingdoms used Angles, Saxons, and Jutes as mercenaries, at the expense of their own armies. THis basicly meant that it was a push over for the mercenaries to become the kings, after that the flood gates are open, as the rest of the ANgles, Saxons, and...

  19. President William Jennings Bryan POD

    Bryan just doesn't have the support of the urban population. He runs on a populist platform that is, naturaly, aimed at rural america. You would have to drasticly change is outlook, such as his stance on silver, for him to gain any traction in the cities.

  20. Catterick

    Well considering it was the Vikings who colonized Iceland and Greenland I don't see much change there. In Fact I would say things go manly according to history. Vikings come and conquer most of the Island, a resistence kingdom eventualy pushes the Vikings back until they come into conflict...
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