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  1. I especially loved reading about the Crusaders in action. It's a vivid look at how a group that...

    I especially loved reading about the Crusaders in action. It's a vivid look at how a group that "are not a numerous people" could go toe-to-toe with galactic powers without getting too many of their few people killed! Real force-multipliers.

  2. Checked Stars of Iron for the first time in six months, and noticed you'd been updating again...

    Checked Stars of Iron for the first time in six months, and noticed you'd been updating again. Read it again in one sitting. Thank you for continuing one of my favorite stories I had long assumed was dead.

  3. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    To be fair, there aren't many non-"foreigners" (I assume by this you mean white?) in the stories living on the coasts. Being some of the most densely populated areas, they mostly collapsed during the Change. The one exception is the PPA/Willamette area, but they are focused inland for obvious...

  4. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    The flipside is actually Island in the Sea of Time, which is where we get "ISOT." It's pretty good, the trilogy is probably about as good as the first Emberverse trilogy. Conquistador, on the other hand, is IMO up there with Peshawar Lancers and the Lords of Creation (his pulp Venus and Mars...

  5. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    The implication is that they seized the best farmland and just killed any Malays who resisted/were there, leaving those that didn't resist to starve. Genocide, basically. That in and of itself isn't totally out of the realm of possibility, if they were organized--Portland showed that an...

  6. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    Just reread that part, and sorry, the Irish initially only outnumber the British by... three to one. He also has a condescending one-off line about how the Irish would have gotten their day in the sun, had they not "gotten back to their old national pasttime of whacking each other over the...

  7. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    The reason is obvious: Stirling is trying to find a way to have his British dominion over Western Europe. That takes an act of God to uphold, when you consider that after the initial die-off and before the Icelanders joined them, the Irish outnumbered the Brits 5:1. You would think that if one...

  8. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    Sometime in The Protector's War Nigel Loring recalls that when they were recolonizing Britain, guess who survived the 99.9% die off on the island? Wiccans. It gets to be a bit much.

  9. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    I am a big Stirling fan, but I got fed up with the super-awesomeness of Rudi and how everyone seems to go out fo their way to agree with him. This is why I gave up a few books into the second series, after the one that ended with them getting the Sword on Nantucket. I was furious that he killed...

  10. Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire

    I just read this entire thing, quite the undertaking. This is possibly the best TL I've ever seen on this site. I also just took a modern Russian history seminar and the sheer amount of details and butterflies you are able to plausibly include is staggering. Also, the article "Match Made in...

  11. Decades of Darkness

    One thing I was wondering about was whether there was less anti-Catholic sentiment in the *US than there was in OTL? I remember that during one of the first Mexican-American Wars, an American was thinking about his Latin wife and how he made her convert to Protestantism before they married. Did...

  12. Conquistador Expanded

    That list is correct -- just checked my copy of the book -- but it contains multiple errors. Orange County is listed twice, and some of the areas described are overlapping.

  13. A Second 'Vietnam' in Latin America??

    The United States military in the 1970s post-Vietnam had huge drug and morale problems. I don't think that they could stomach another war on the same scale that quickly.

  14. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Hey, CalBear....

  15. Base Maps from 550 BC to Modern Day, all in UCS!

    Where can I find the base map with not only the national borders, but the provincial borders as well?

  16. American Rebel Boer-trek

    I suggest you read For Want of a Nail. It deal with just that topic. After a failed US Revolution, the hardcore patriots go on a trek to Spanish Texas and form a democracy in the Jacksonian tradition; it eventually conquers all of Mexico and makes the United States of Mexico. The Loyalists and...

  17. _Khakhanate_ by Thomas Lankenau

    Has anyone read Khakhanate by Thomas Lankenau? It's a book about a group of Mongol Ordu that, when the Khanate is collapsing to the Ming Dynasty, make a great trek up north and east across the Bering Straight and into North America. I'm only about halfway through it, but so far they've started...

  18. Conquistador Expanded

    It's because the Gate is central to power in the other world. The Afrikaners spoke wistfully of a new South Africa over there, but the saner voice said "what about when your cars and guns break down? How will you replace them? And the only oil well in the world is fifty miles that way, good luck...

  19. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Seconded filler

  20. USA Anthem Poll

    Are you attacking my post, not because of who I am, but because of who my username is named after? I'm not sure if that's some convoluted form of ad hominem. Anyway, I respectfully disagree; Robert E. Lee loved the United States, he just loved Virginia even more and could stand to see it...
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