Recent content by Avatar Of Khaine

Congratulations on stepping into this David! Looking forward to seeing what articles come and hopefully in time submitting some ideas myself!

I do think that there is a lot of room for different Prussia's during the Napoleonic Wars and that given the pan-German volunteers drawn up at some points that a few differences in attitude could result in an earlier Germany, though it would be a different affair indeed. It's a fun soft AH take...

That's true but I guess I was thinking more along the lines of if we can get to situation where the Admiralty doesn't want to give them up and that combined with early tank failures means the army focuses on other things and the Admiralty develops a tank corps a la Marines that are recognised as...

Been thinking about a bit of a weird idea lately and wondered if people with more modern military knowledge could help as I'm primarily a medievalist. So historically I'm vaguely aware of the Landship Committee and the various ways in which early tank development was done by the RN even as Army...

Same here.

I heard about this from the Talkernate History podcast which has reviewed nearly all these collections. I did remember them enjoying the weirdness of the Dukakis story and it was interesting to read another's take on this.

As someone who plays a lot of Paladins in D&D, I definitely agree that there is Character in seeing a character who refuses to bend on their rules even if it causes suffering, in a similar vein to characters such as Stannis Baratheon where part of the story is seeing how the exemplar can stay...

To me this reads that there is an interesting story of Haitian exceptionalism in a surviving Kingdom that manages to somehow thread the needle through every conflict point and retain some form of monarchy in the present that leads to interesting knock-on effects of this miraculous reputation in...

The last line though, why do I somehow feel as though I'll start feeling very bad for laughing at the medal received by a pigeon when I read the article on returning black soldiers from WW1. I know a little about how it was in WW2 but I've never seen much on US Black Soldiers in WW1 compared to...

An interesting article, and one that almost made me want to write a CSA story using "stock" Shakespeare to tell a story of very dysfunctional politics by the deliberate allusions and have people even in-universe recognise such a farce. I think that proves it's point in terms of inspiration and...

I think you missed the part where I said it would need to be a very different Monmouth rebellion to succeed, by which I meant that it would be a Monmouth Rebellion very dissimilar to the Monmouth Rebellion. Though I will say that do agree that a Williamite attempt is likely if James-Scott is...

I'm really not, my point entirely is that as you said "things happen" and that a victory for James-Scott at Sedgemoor upends the conventional wisdom. I never once stated that it would lead to an automatic victory, only stating that few rebellions ever won a battle and that his doing would...

I'm going to have to fundamentally disagree that 1685 and 1688 were unalike. My point is not that 1685 is a direct prior example/precursor but more that there was a similar opportunity that could be exploited if the rebellion had lasted longer. When I spoke of great opportunity, I spoke more of...

I think you underestimate the effect of a military victory at Sedgemoor, and the potential reaction of James II that might cause people to affect to the rebellion. A military victory at Sedgemoor would have meant that many of the more radical Protestants and those who had been pushing the...

I would agree James seemed to have a "honeymoon" period, but if we look at the man over his life we see that he's awful at overreacting to threats, given how the trials from this Monmouth rebellion and the executions caused William's attack. I do think you say too much against the rebellion...