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  1. Scottish Britain

    Not at all. That is where most invaders screw up. Do not depend on the "local elites" exterminate them and give the peasantry a better deal. Why would the clans leave anyway? Please, Britain didn't exist at the time and Scotland was fighting on the French side....

  2. DB AHC: unite the British Isles before the 20th Century

    Far too late. This actually happened when Elizabeth Tudor snuffed it. The throne of England was offered to the nearest contender (Jamie Saxt) as there was bad weather in the Channel. The daft bastard actually took it...

  3. No Miracle of Dunkirk?

    Quick and dirty answer - no. The spearhead of the Heer was the tanks which were over-extended, needing urgent maintenance and resupply. OK. they could get fuel from civilian establishments without paying, but where did they get the replacement tracks, engine parts or ammunition? Dunkirk wasn't...

  4. AHC: Alec Salmond, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

    Only Triple points :eek::eek:? Come on be sensible - in the whole of Scotland there is only ONE Tory MP and that's been the case since way back in the last century...

  5. Conquest of England

    All the PODs in the poll are far too late. You'd probably need to consider butterflying the Conquest of Wales and Longshanks adventures in Scotland. Somehow come up with a Scottish /Welsh /Irish alliance - not forgetting the Northern English Barons (such as Percy or Dacre) who were appreciative...

  6. In my defens God me defend - A Scottish History

    I wasn't romanticising, I was going on results. Between 1297 (Stirling Bridge) and the Treaty of Northampton (1328), there were something like 20 battles between Scotland and England. England won at Falkirk, Hepperew, Stirling and Methven. They lost the rest, hence my use of the word frequently.

  7. In my defens God me defend - A Scottish History

    Yes, and that was how they managed to beat the crap out of the best military machine in Europe. Frequently.

  8. In my defens God me defend - A Scottish History

    I'd love to, but I can't remember where I read it, it could have been Lanercost, Walter of Guisborough (why can't the English spell "burgh" properly?) or the Scotichronichon. I have seen replicas in various museums. Minor nitpick here - it's not Skelkirk, it's Selkirk. Only an idiot would...

  9. In my defens God me defend - A Scottish History

    They already had longbows in Scotland at the time (as they did in Ireland and and England). The Welsh innovation was the use of massed archers as a sort of area denial weapon. Not pikes - the schiltroms were armed with heavy 7 or 8 foot battle spears and short swords, axes and long daggers...

  10. William Wallace as an English commander

    I can't see it happening. In this scenario Wallace is nothing more than minor landholder. He has no pretensions to gentility, far less nobility. English commanders of the time almost had to be from the nobility (they could be from the gentility if they were in church orders). But a minor...

  11. In my defens God me defend - A Scottish History

    Could very well be - except I don't think we ever saw many togas in Caledonia :). Now, just for the tourists here, this is demonstration of how to put on the Great kilt. It's filmed in the Great Hall at Edinburgh Castle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBbg953p_Og&feature=related

  12. In my defens God me defend - A Scottish History

    Oh hell no. Never. No bloody way. That is the Feile beag or "Little kilt" and believe it or not it was invented by the British army as a cost-cutting exercise. Most people who comment on the origins of the modern kilt blame it on Thomas Rowlandson (an inronfounder in Glenmoriston in the 1730s)...

  13. In my defens God me defend - A Scottish History

    Not to rain too much on your parade, but the clan system couldn't survive. While it disintegrated faster after Culloden, it's final death was the Clearances - which for the most part were carried out by clan chiefs. Scotland actually had a small colonial empire before the idiocy of the Darien...

  14. AHC: Have Britain Keep Normandy.

    Actually it wouldn't. They could keep England. Scotland and France were military allies at the time. You'd have to butterfly the Auld Alliance - not easy then and still a bit dicey now (Scots as a whole don't understand the "1000 years of annoying the French" thing.......:confused:

  15. If You Could Change One Historical Event, What Would It Be?

    No thanks. Not keen on either. A more interesting scenario would be that Sir Andrew Moray didn't die but Wallace did.

  16. AHC: Stuart Denmark in the 1500s

    What have you got against Denmark?

  17. Dead at Bannockburn

    The last of the Canmores (Margaret of Norway) died in 1290. While Baliol was a weak king, he somehow, somewhere found the balls to tell Longshanks he wasn't supplying a Scottish army to fight the Fench - that's what got him retired... What the OP hasn't recognised is that the Bruce had what was...

  18. WI Henry VIII doesnt break away from Rome?

    Sorry, I misnumbered him. It was James IV who married Margaret Tudor. It was his grandson (James VI) who inherited the English throne.

  19. Scotland not in UK

    Very true, but most Scots, like most Englishmen, weren't consulted on the matter. They're still trying... The Mi run mor nan Gall was, in essence a product of the Montrose wars of the mid 17th century and the Jacobite Risings of the 18th. So it had some basis in reality.

  20. WI Henry VIII doesnt break away from Rome?

    Didn't work - ever. First tried in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest. Margaret of Wessex married Ceann Mor. Later on Margaret Tudor married James V. Male children, personal union, but no dynastic union.
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