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You are SI'ed into an European leader on 1.I.1939. To sweeten the deal ROB tells you that you can get a gift of historical WWII AFVs (ready to use, with manuals, some spare parts and ammo), with folllowing limitations: - must had been in mass production and with the troops at end of 1944; -...

Damaging that tunnel is meaningless. One - there is a perfectly working and used for normal operations bypass around it. Two - there are the following RR connecting Russia and China: - Transsiberian - maybe it has low throughput, as it was designed and built a long time ago? - Transmongolian - I...

Yup, smart to target tunnel. Repairing track is fast and easy.

That tweet sucks. Not "highway" but "rail line". And the BAM is NOT the main RR link between Russia and China. I'd even say that the BAM does NOT connect Russia and China at all. Sheesh - geography, people ...

Frankly I thought that he was dead for like sme 20-30 years ....

Allegedly in the 1990s a Polish RPG player was told by his grandma - "there's a movie in the cinema about your games. You know, the ones where you roll coloured beads - it's titled "Free the Orc" :)

Warsaw and environs also snowy - for the 2nd time this November :)

Well, no USA for starters, as at some point of such a Frank-Wank XVIIIth century the North American colonies get zapped. If they are lucky the British retain control from South Carolina to south Main, with the Appallachians as western border.

Gulag with emu and drop bear guards was a joke. Yes, a NZ for Poland swap better. Or Labrador. I agree that Piłsudski's morons would be devasted with the army being safely cut down to 10%. And that they'd start building a navy. The planned (most expensive in the world) destroyers would be...

I think this idea deserves its own thread.

I suggest swapping the 2nd Republic for Victoria and the SE of NSW. Such a c. 390km2 exchange fits Poland "down under" and guts Australia by taking away 3/4ths (more?) of its population. Well, Britain come and make gulag, using emus and drop bears to guard perimiter. Hitler liked Britain but...

Well, if Columbus sinks (or is quitely excuted by the Portuguese while returning) there might be a 100-200 years during which the Portuguese have a victualisation base at Bahia, while some tight lipped illterate fishermen and whalers ply the Acadia area. And terminate with extreme prejudice any...

As history shows, a period of small states is very often replaced by a big state. China, India, Mesopotamia, Persia ... In Mexico - once their former vassals defeat and eat the Aztecs - anything from 20 to 200 years may again produce a single entity - or simply some regional hegemon. In the...

I do not expect a single amerindian empire to form. For that they'd need to establish a maritime tradition. And their startng point in 1500 is too low.

I'd venture that it saved the PLAN a decade. They skipped the helicopter carrier stage.

She knew what she was doing.

Not knowing one's turbines from diesels is damning. Paints himself as an ignorant blowhard. Yes and no. Knowing things is one thing. Doing them is another.

BTW - China is less than 15 years into carrier operations and carrier building. This is a decades long project. How good were the USN, ISJn, or RN in the early 1930s? That linked video struck a negative chord with me - the mention of carrers being diesel powered killed the dude's credibility...

Any news on the smokey landing ship? Yes, China bought one of the Russian Aircraft Carrying Cruisers to have some sort of starting point. But that was years ago. China IMO wisely went with CATOBAR not with stinking useless stupid ramps (yeah, RN QE in my books SUXXOR DA MAXXOR). But catapults...

Five of the top 10 silver producers are gone - Mexico, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina ... and historically the USA also was a major player. Gold is much less affected.