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  1. American southern states don’t make ‘clunk’ move of Civil War?

    Well yes, all conquest is conquest, that seems to simple a point to even dispute. But I'm just saying that the Russians already came into a system where most of what I described already existed, and where the Siberian peoples were already in yasak-paying arrangements with outsiders. The Russians...

  2. American southern states don’t make ‘clunk’ move of Civil War?

    In Western Siberia, the Russians signed them up for government service and paid them salaries, just like Russian service class people. They also kept the tax levels at the same levels as they were when collected by the Taibughins/Shaybanids, or lower. They primarily fought those of the Dzungars...

  3. American southern states don’t make ‘clunk’ move of Civil War?

    Only for Hebrew slaves (and this is similar to many "barbarian" slave codes of say Europe, or those of the ancient Middle East). Whereas non-Hebrew slaves were chattels and handed over as inherited property. It's all right there in the scripture, beyond all argument. Based on race, as you put...

  4. Do real Cavalry Charges trample down over troops that don't have Shieldwall Formations or Blocks of long spears and other pole arms?

    Dreux is interesting because it has examples of both things happening. Hugenot Gendarmes physically charged through the Swiss several times and eventually dislodged them and then broke them (the Swiss having won their infantry combat earlier after the rest of the Catholic infantry ran away...

  5. WI Horses Exist In Both Euroasia and N. America?

    I won't say that there's no macroanalysis that could be more wrong, but wow. Cavalry is civilization-defining. Cavalry changes everything at all levels of organization. Cavalry gives a buffer of centuries to people who form raiding para-states over more advanced sedentary neighbours, and lets...

  6. The Gentleman's Games: An alternate History of Rugby and Football

    Oh lol. Okay. England, Hungary, France, Denmark, I'd guess. Scotland/Belgium/Hungary probably the group of death to me.

  7. The Gentleman's Games: An alternate History of Rugby and Football

    Rugby seems like a sport with lots of inertia in it so probably the favourites for both (that said, have some secret hopes for Canada). France didn't get good until later ittl.

  8. Realistic Soviet Lunar program leading to American manned Mars landing preferably without a POD before 1966

    Apologies, I'm not the same user. Don't think Canadian Goose has been back since forever. This (Soviet Lunar program) is a topic I do have interest in, but no actual expertise.

  9. AHC - African Colonization of the Americas

    Maybe in Canada or Argentina, eventually, but I have Strong Doubts about the Caribbean as a starting point for them.

  10. Charles not wounded = Swedish victory at Poltava?

    I suppose it's possible but the odds are really really stacked against Sweden at this point. They're outnumbered, low on supplies, and far from anywhere friendly. The Russians have learned a lot of lessons since Narva, won some victories, and are a much tougher opponent. A lots more things would...

  11. AHC - African Colonization of the Americas

    That's a very mild way of saying "had staggering mortality rates and were largely worked to death before the indentures/transportation sentences were up (and I don't mean the really OTT 99-year indentures that eventually developed)." Disease resistance is really key to the demographic history here.

  12. Maximally Successful Hungarian Invasion of Europe

    This is the most important point and while scenario-killing (and no fun to the OP), it should be restated in the interests of plausibility. If the Magyars were notably stronger than they were, they wouldn't be pushed into Hungary but instead defeat the pressure from the east and north (by the...

  13. Pre-1900 Alternate History Tropes/Cliches:

    I think that these kinds of threads are a safe bit of banter, but if anyone in them ever wanted to be serious, the least that could be done would be links to examples of all the tropes mentioned in the post. Otherwise I wouldn't even know if the claim is remotely true.

  14. WI no slaves brought to America?

    And mainland Iberian kingdoms, and the entirety of the the Mediterranean Muslim world. Exactly the kind of agricultural cash-crop slavery that's implied by the word today, sometimes complete with what can easily look like a work-to-death approach in malarial conditions.

  15. Quick Timeline: 15 Battles that Shaped England

    I really appreciate the brevity of the format and also the amount of information you managed to get into it. Well done.

  16. AHC: Save an incompetent or unlucky ruler

    There is actual contemporary-to-Ludwig gay German royalty that managed to live without any notable inner conflict by fully embracing the hypocrisy of the age. Granted none of them were as big as Bavaria, but I think Ludwig's biggest problem wasn't his orientation but other character traits.

  17. How terrifying is it for well-armored elite cavalry to charge at infantry?

    I suppose they might practice on campaign or maybe the citizens who could spend time at the gymnasium could practice marching, but that wouldn't be the whole hoplite body. Later cities did have the Fields of Mars where people did practice communally, but I definitely can't think of a direct...

  18. How terrifying is it for well-armored elite cavalry to charge at infantry?

    Notably the casualties they caused were actually none, and the thing that failed was the Russian cavalry's morale. Of course it's terrifying to charge anything, let alone rifles that don't look like they're about to break. And for a horseman, it must be more tempting to run away because that way...

  19. Possible areas of expansion for China, Japan and Korea if all three begin to modernize in the 1800s?

    Because it never outmatched what Russia had even when Russia was restricted in its naval programmes after the Crimean war, until the stars literally aligned in 1905 and WW1/RCW? I mean it's not ASB that Japan could take Kamchatka by like, 1900, provided the entire century is a Russia-screw as...

  20. Possible areas of expansion for China, Japan and Korea if all three begin to modernize in the 1800s?

    Well, there's your problem. Japan cannot feasibly invade Kamchatka against opposition and while Russia's government never had overwhelming interest in the far east, Petropavlovsk was worth fighting over. Kunashir, maybe not. Petropavlovsk? That's ambitious by Japan and it hurts Russia. The...
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