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  1. Charlemagne dies in first war with the Saxons, effects in France and beyond

    The ripples of Charles' early death into European pond would look like a tsunami. First the Papacy would lose the main, if not the only supporter, it got. Not only the Lombards would take Rome, but the papal states, the Sancti Petri patrimonium, would never came to be meaning that the Pope...

  2. Which power would colonise/rule a non-Meiji Japan

    Probably the United States. I don't think that Japan would ever become a formal colony, a protectorate would have been much more probable. The best window of opportunity is after admiral Perry's expedition . Maybe the shogunate would see the "alliance" and "collaboration" with the US the best...

  3. Longships in the Niger: The Vikings in West Africa (A Viking and West Africa TL)

    - Hey Chief, are you sure of that map? That guy in London,...what was his name, again... oh yeah, Cut my own throat Dibbler... didn't look to me... how can I say... reliable. - By Odin, Ragnarr, why don't you stop blabbering! This is a secret map to the hidden treasures of the Ceasars! And we...

  4. Would a barely 'victorious' Nazi Germany support Islamic radicals or Nasser's Pan Arabism wrt cold war?

    Without a clear idea of the post war situation (borders, economics, military etc.) this an empty discussion Would the Nazi be interested into middle east? Well, since it's the largest deposit of oil of the world, you can bet they would, just as anybody else. Unless they got russian caucasus'...

  5. Italian colonies in a red Italy

    I would say that the fate of italian colonies lies in how the war actually went. The OP said the the war come to an end il 1918, so we can deduce that the war got pretty much ugly for everybody and that any peace treaty would have been on par with that. Germany would surely try to defang...

  6. [Roman Query] - Roman figures who could be as mythologized as Arthur?

    I didn't know Davidson at all, never read anything oh his. Then I found an old copy of the "phoenix and the mirror" by chance in an used book store. One of the best purchase ever, a great fantasy novel without any of the boring cliché. You know them... the ones that make you mark most of the...

  7. [Roman Query] - Roman figures who could be as mythologized as Arthur?

    Vergilius, poet and wizard...

  8. WI: Tom Selleck takes the role of Indiana Jones

    Well, in my mind Ford IS Indiana Jones and I would struggle to accept someone else in that role (Yeah, I dread the day they will do a "reboot" of the Raiders). But Selleck could pull a convincing gruff and rude protagonist. Consider for example High road to China, a rather good movie which...

  9. WI: Tom Selleck takes the role of Indiana Jones

    I don't see Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones. I think that Harrison Ford nailed that role pretty well in all the three movies (yes three, ONLY three). But Selleck would have been an egregious Allan Quattermain.

  10. ATL - Free Italy - Italy sides with Wallies in WW2

    Just few quick notes: French campaign in North Africa: I don't understand how the french are supporting the northafrican theatre. Their supply chain is horribly exposed to the Regia Marina and what of Regia Aereonautica can be spared from the northen theatre. The run from south France to...

  11. WI British/Italian war in the 1930s

    Frankly I find the whole question rather unrealistic, borderline ASB. Wars are not declared out of the blue, just because someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I've not seen a single good idea of how Italy and UK could go to war in the '30ies; and no, the old frontier shooting...

  12. AHC: Competent Italy in WWII?

    And this is the crux of everything: Mussolini wanted a place to the victor table to get the few territories he desired, to placate his German ally (Hitler had been pressuring Mussolini to declare war since the 1939) and to show up all those that warned him against going to war. Who cares if...

  13. AHC: Competent Italy in WWII?

    Not so silly. Consider the situation in May 1940. France and Great Britain had been accomodating Hitler and co for the past five years: Rhineland, Austria, Spain, Sudeten, Czechoslovakia... they looked weak and unlikely to fight back. True, they declared war for Poland, but also did nothing to...

  14. An Unmutilated Victory

    Because the others showed such restrain... let's be honest pre WWII foreign policy is just like dinner time in the shark pool

  15. Behold a Red Horse (a sequel to "Let Them Pass")

    The comparison doesn't hold. OTL 1940, France was at war and De Gaulle was trying desperately to assume control of the few forces left to the french to prosecute war and gain british support (so the need to appear as the legitimate french representative). ITTL he's just another officer, who...

  16. Behold a Red Horse (a sequel to "Let Them Pass")

    De Gaulle at the time is an officer on active duty. I really doubt that he would be allowed to dabble in politics or lead a party while in the army. OTL, at the time, he tried to land a position at the Ecole de Guerre (without success: his would be collegues threatened to leave en mass if he...

  17. Let Them Pass

    No, quite improbable. Cadorna would have raged against the politicians in private, but not publicy. Besides the actual decision to not enter the war was taken by the king. Talking of "rank cowardice" would smell a bit too much of high treason for an old guard officer like Cadorna. But let's...

  18. WI: Italy remains neutral in WWI and instead invades Ethiopia (again) while no one is paying attention?

    France main interest at the moment are the germans. The last thing the entente needed was another front

  19. WI: Italy remains neutral in WWI and instead invades Ethiopia (again) while no one is paying attention?

    I don't get what you mean. Why relations with UK and france should be bad? Over Ethiopia of all places? My point is that if Italy sits out of the war in the beginning, will be probably shooting arabs in Libia, rather start something in Ethiopia. And even if by absurd italians should start...

  20. WI: Italy remains neutral in WWI and instead invades Ethiopia (again) while no one is paying attention?

    Italy had just invaded Libia. If they don't get involved in WWI, italians would certainly go on "pacifying" the recently acquired colony. Besides you would need to keep the fleet and part of the army ready in North Italy just in case ...
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