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  1. Der Kampf: The Rise and Fall of the Austrian Führer

    IOTL, Austro-Hungarian and later Austrian used a simple (descriptive/function) M(year). Sometimes preceded by the manufacturer and often the M(year) was shortened to the final two digits. Thus, you'd have Skoda Field Howitzer Model 1912 or the Skoda Feldhaubitze M1912 in the original form. Or...

  2. The Iron Eagle III - Fallen Eagle

    A finger on the monkey's paw curls. You do realize that the Rockwell giving an interview in the OP is most likely George Lincoln Rockwell, the OTL founder of the American Nazi Party. Veteran, proud nationalist, good-looking (and suspiciously similar to the photograph at the start of the...

  3. The Iron Eagle III - Fallen Eagle

    Yay, I was right about it being Goldwater/Walker. Shit, I was right about it being Goldwater/Walker. At this point, the best hope, really, is that Smith falls down a flight of knives just after the votes are in and LBJ becomes president? Because, honestly, he's the least terrible option...

  4. The Iron Eagle II - Days of Strife

    Well, there is an Ed that Goldwater sort of agreed with, even as he hated the man's stances. General Edwin Walker. WW2 veteran and IOTL Korean War veteran. Tried to become the Governor of Texas IOTL (with the Democrats), failed in the preliminaries to LBJ's favourite. Ardent segregationist who...

  5. A better Austro-Hungarian Navy for WW1

    Well, statistically, Austrian military spending in the lead-up to WW1 rose least among the Great Powers. Nowhere near the sharp increase in investments of Germany, Russia or France. If that can be changed, then more funding would be available by default. The problem is that the navy is a common...

  6. A better Austro-Hungarian Navy for WW1

    Well, there were some preliminary plans for an Austro-Italian joint naval operation against France in the event of war. Of course, nothing came of it OTL when WW1 actually broke out and Italy stayed neutral (and ultimately joined the Entente). A TTL Great War where Italy ends up with the...

  7. Triarii adopt Sarissa Phalanx of Macedon

    Shield-bearers / Hypaspsists, yes. They remained in limited use throughout the Successor period, though as time passed, there was a greater shift towards using skirmishers in the role of guarding the flanks. Skirmisher equipment kept getting heavier as time passed - with increasingly heavy...

  8. Triarii adopt Sarissa Phalanx of Macedon

    Not really? It is possible, but it would require both different reforms and possibly a different series of conquests by Rome and possibly even other powers. A phalanx is more than just issuing a pile of pikes to infantry. The cavalry arm was crucial to its success. The phalanx had its role in...

  9. 8mm to the Left: If Hitler Died in 1923

    Not reluctance, really. Apathy was more like it. It wasn't really perceived as Chinese (unlike Manchria), so it wasn't really included into considerations of what would go to China as a default course of action (again, unlike Manchuria). As Kosaki_MacTavish noted, China didn't really control...

  10. 8mm to the Left: If Hitler Died in 1923

    Even if Japan goes to war, I wouldn't necessarily discount Japan keeping Taiwan. IOTL, it was only Chiang Kai-Shek's insistence that Taiwan be given back to China that saw the allies contemplate it. Even then, FDR agreed to the proposal purely to cultivate a good relationship with China and...

  11. 8mm to the Left: If Hitler Died in 1923

    Pope Pius XI broke the two up in 1926. He, and the Church in general, considered the Action Francaise irreligious and generally too radical (as in, too willing to break with tradition) - the Pope basically condemned them in a speech and subsequently any Catholic participation or the reading of...

  12. 8mm to the Left: If Hitler Died in 1923

    IOTL, Blitzkrieg was more of a propaganda thing. German officers simply viewed their doctrine as an outgrowth of Bewegungskrieg, the traditional Prussian muneauvre warfare, only improved with modern technology and the experiences of WW1. Small-scale encirclements are very easy to justify using...

  13. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    Not in and of itself impossible with a PoD in the 1860s. While the major damage was already done with the Crimean War (and Austria's perceived stab in Russia's back), the two powers were broadly willing to cooperate up until 1905 or so, especially as the Russian court was dominated by officials...

  14. Facsist/authoritarian Austria Hungary after winning WW1?

    The easiest way to get this is, ironically enough, Franz Ferdinand surviving. He was a proponent of dictatorship from the centre (after flirting with federalism, trialism and other reform ideas) - a sort-of reset to defaults where the Hungarians are crushed and he could proceed to reform the...

  15. Seven Days to the River Rhine: the Third World War - a TL

    Yes. There were various plans for nuclear mines - I do remember the infamous chicken mines developed by the British. See, ground in Germany gets cold, so to keep the mechanism warm, British engineers simply crammed a chiken inside to keep it warm. Never got past the prototype stage, but they...

  16. Seven Days to the River Rhine: the Third World War - a TL

    So, a bit of a random question and maybe irrelevant compared to the action in West Germany and Austria ... But, what is the Soviet 40th Army (the Soviet forces in Afghanistan) doing? They did account for something like half a dozen aviation regiments and multiple divisions and brigades. I...

  17. Alternate Battle of Poland 1914

    Early WW1 bombing was handing the pilot a crate of bombs to toss overboard when he thought he was close enough. At the start of the war, aircraft duels took place with pistols because synchronization gears hadn't been introduced yet. Unless the French are willing to wait until late 1916 when...

  18. Most plausible WW1 German Victory?

    More that given the choice between a dominant Germany or Russia, Britain (or, rather, Grey and the Foreign Office who were, much like other foreign affairs ministries, effectively rogue in the period leading up to WW1) chose Russia as the lesser evil. Well, that and rampant Germanophobia not...

  19. Most plausible WW1 German Victory?

    Britain was aware of that - they weren't blind or deaf. The choice to join the Franco-Russian alliance was born of the same calculus that saw Germany's military leadership chomping at the bit to wage war on Russia before 1917. The least bad of a series of bad choices, so to speak. The...

  20. The March of Time - 20th Century History

    Well, time flies. Only a little more and this TL can join the ranks of the true long-running alternate history legends lime Swarm on the Somme and Operation Unicorn. Here's hoping we get to mark that anniversary as well.
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