Recent content by pjmidd

Think you are looking at this a bit modern. In medieval times, infidelity was very much something wives could not do unlike husbands who, especially if the mistress was unmarried and lower rank, could. An envoy seducing the wife of a royal Duke and caught , by medieval standards, in flagrante...

Think that's wrong, Python, unless they reused the name, is the modern system. Think it was Conger ( liquid explosive WW2) , Giant Viper ( plastic explosive Cold War) and then Python ( modern day ) in British service.

Don't believe there would be any. As far as I understand it was based on Henry "knowing" the sister so only applied directly to him rather than wider to relatives. In other words if two brothers want to marry two sisters ( not unknown in the Medieval ) , they can, even if the marriages due to...

No need to read more than the sample when its central premise is flawed, it overstates the isolationist strength and minimises the link drawn between Germany and Japan. The US was as I stated all but fighting a war in the Atlantic, it would fighting alongside the British et al in the Pacific. At...

Book is total bunkum, the US and Germany were already at the stage of an undeclared war in the North Atlantic with US ships escorting convoys nearly to Ireland and attacking U-boats on sight without warning. Neutrality was being stretched to the limit with some war related items being declared...

Not mechanised and pretty static is to put it mildly post Barbarossa. Might be a lot of Germans but precious few of the Heer, at first, are good for more than garrison troops. This is due to the majority of the good ones having moved to Finland to fight the Soviets and so would need to redeploy...

Yup, never sent to the Med so never in a position to be sunk. Can also be assumed they had a bit more TLC than OTL so in a little better shape hence Rover being available instead of the Dockyard.

And why was there no fleet? Because the threat was not seen as large enough. It the Irish raids are big enough to bother, then the Roman counter is an Irish Shore. Not to mention lots of punitive actions till the Irish get the message ( the meme of the Roman idea of defence being to attack is an...

Uniform as in without Hadrian's wall acting as a barrier, all of Britain becomes Romano-Celtic not just the areas South of it. Obviously an organised Roman defence ( which included ships, not just land forces ) is a lot tougher than individual tribes, just as happened OTL in the South.

No, Stalin hated to gamble, OTL he underestimated the Finns, he would not underestimate the Germans. Despite what a lot of books imply the Germans actually had the numbers when Barbarossa started ( a lot of figures given look to be for all the Soviets strength not just the Western Districts vs...

True, the only benefit of a land campaign past Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica was to give Stalin a Second Front. Once the Med is open, finishing off Italy is just a political decision, militarily it was actually a greater draw on Axis resources to let it be.

Err, what Scots? Do you mean the Irish raiders ( at this point in time )? A Roman Britain that is the entire island will have a more uniform culture and identity. The Irish raids would be less successful and the entire colonisation of the far North might be avoided.

You also need the natives not to rock the boat and do things that either destroy confederations or upset neighbouring settlers. People keep bringing up the Comanche but forget they were genocidal slavers.

Not allow ships through the blockade? Sweden was among other things dependant on both food and oil imports, without the Allies approval of those imports ( all ships to Sweden were searched for contraband at designated stations ), its very screwed.

Only part of the year, Swedish ore in winter is blocked by the ice on the Baltic. The main change is that with France and Belgium in German hands they have more sources of iron.