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  1. .303 (British) is adopted as a rimless cartridge. Does anything actually change?

    There were, apparently, plans to adopt the .0303 as a rimless cartridge (presumably with a 'crimped rim' like the .30-06,) only to be stymied by someone or other in the process. Lets say that, for whatever reason, they don't. Does anything actually materially change? The biggest potential would...

  2. WI/PC The UK 'pulls a France' after the Suez Crisis?

    Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, the UK and France, who had worked together during the Suez Crisis, had wildly different reactions to the USA slapping down their Imperial Adventures. In brief, as I understand it, the UK undertook to be as pro-American as possible, but...

  3. Our Sacred Honour - British Intervention in the Russo-Japanese War

    Westminster - October 23 - 1904 The Right Honourable Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was not having a Good Day. To the Left of of him sat the Papers. The Sunday Times was characteristically restrained: Royal Navy Destroyer Sunk by...

  4. AHC/WI: Elizabeth the First accepts the Crown of the Dutch

    http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/252ys4/was_elizabeth_the_first_of_england_offered_the/ I've seen several proffered timelines with an Anglo-Dutch Union, usually centered around the Glorious Revolution. Well, how about an Anglo-Dutch Union from 1584?

  5. AHC: A Tri/Quad Polar Cold War

    The Challenge: With a PoD after 12:00AM, January 1st 1900, make a Cold War Scenario with three or four players of more or less equal power.

  6. AHC: Save the Anglo-Japanese Alliance!

    Mostly because saving it would have completely changed the Geopolitical landscape, especially in terms of WWII and China. Likely a reduced Burma Road, the Japanese Navy as an ally in WWII, no costly, awfully perpetrated Far East Campaigns. Perhaps even no Oil Embargo, no Pearl Harbour, no USA in...
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