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  1. Question about early British carriers

    Haven't posted one of these here in quite a while, but, here goes: In the 1920s, both the British and the Japanese experimented with carriers that had a wedding-cake flight deck arrangement. Both the Furious/Courageous-class and Akagi/Kaga had secondary (even tertiary, in the latters' case)...

  2. Some questions regarding interwar battleship construction

    I was reading some random ship specs, and a couple of questions popped up (well, one of them was older and resurfaced): 1) Why did Italy and Japan spend craploads of money on refurbishing ships with little no combat value? The old Cavours and Dorias (which themselves were basically improved...

  3. Why was the U-boat arm so stagnant?

    Looking at the KM's UBoot arm, I couldn't help but notice how stagnant they were, design-wise, until the introduction of the XXIII and XXI. The designs they used were both obsolescent and underpowered. The Type VII was a crappy coastal boat pressed into oceanic service, and the Type IX was...

  4. WI no M-R Pact

    As we know, Hitler was terrified by the idea of the two-front war, which he considered a main cuplrit for Germany's FWW defeat (along with the Judeo-Bolshevik cabal, evidently). We know Stalin kept repeatedly delaying signing the pact (having already been informed of the invasion's potential...

  5. WI Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec...

    Wasn't crippled in childhood? What if he had never broken any of his femurs? Would he still have focused on society's 'marginals' and/or 'maladjusted'?

  6. What if Charles Robert died in 1330 at Posada?

    Charles Robert (Charles I), the Angevin king of Hungary, had only managed to vanquish the main pretenders not twenty years earlier (Rozgony, 1312) and the near-complete pacification of his realm came as late as 1322. Suppose that, in 1330, he has less luck than OTL, and is either killed during...

  7. Relations between Minoans and the rest of Greece

    What kind of relations existed between Minoan Crete and the rest of the Greek world in the Protopalatial and Neopalatial periods (before the eruption)? The Minotaur myth suggests a sort of clientelary one, with the various Greek coastal cities paying tribute to Minoans, for maritime access...

  8. A question about Ancient Egypt

    How come the pharaohs never expanded southwards, in the area of the Nile's tributaries/headwaters? Was it a geographical thing, was it a socio-economical thing, was it political?

  9. AHC: Italy accepts mid-tier status

    I've initially intended to post this in the ASB forum (given that I'm not sure whether some of my demands are 'merely' implausible or just flat out impossible) but eventually decided to leave it here. Your mission, should you accept it, is to put forth a general framework that would have Italy...

  10. WI early Soviet-friendly Romania

    According to David Mitrany, many of the Leftist intelligentsia in Romania had been clamouring for an opening of relationships between the Soviet Union and Romania at the beginning of the 1920s. Apparently, discussion about how to proceed with the initial offer had progressed some way (and some...

  11. AH Challenge - Mission (Im)possible

    Right, another one of the those traditional 'construct a more-or-less plausible timeline' exercises. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is a biggie. You must devise a timeflow, with a starting point no earlier than 1878, in such a fashion that a state encompassing the Kingdom of...
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