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Would be interested in a post on drawing vs pulling bows and other bow-related bow-wows.

Austria didn't need to. Depends how communist, surely?

Given that the Turkish settlement of Anatolia wasn't being led by the Seljuk Sultanate, I don't see the Seljuk campaigns against the the Fatimids changing much even with a different situation in Anatolia, so unless the Fatimids also pull it out of the bag then the pilgrims in Jerusalem are still...

Gregory VII apparently had been trying to push the idea in 1074 but that didn't go anywhere. Without a formal request from the Byzantines (and Alexios was apparently keen on mending the Schism too), you're unlikely to get something as large as the OTL First Crusade IMO, but it's still possible...

Oh it getting worse is also a possiblity. The Byzantines collapsing to that point almost actually happened in the 1080s - Alexios Komnenos was simply able to get the wins at Larissa and Levounion required to not collapse entirely in Europe. Losing Anatolia I don't think was inevitable - without...

The Battle of Manzikert is one of those totemic PoDs, the moment when the Byzantine Empire began its inexorable decline and decay, sometimes with the idea that if Byzantine defeat there hadn't occured there'd still be a Roman Empire rampant in the Near East to this day. This isn't about that...

A China that avoids the Warlord Era*, or at least isn't so obviously divided, is goinna be substantially more open to Japanese economic penetration than OTL, so there's an influential group who won't want the Chinese boat rocked. Admittedly, the investors would probably still like overt...

I'm moderately sure it's possible to have a Democratic Japanese Empire post-WW1 that doesn't involve annexing Manchuria outright or even winning the Second Sino-Japanese War. Those scenarios can be interesting, but they also feel a tad drastic and overegging the pudding. Wonder if it's possible...

OTL had Slovenia get divvied up between Germany, Italy, and Hungary - without German involvement I'd presume Croatia gets a chunk and Italy a bit more. Bosnia, meanwhile, was handed wholly to Croatia - could see this Serbia retaining the Serbian-populated eastern bits. Assuming, of course...

When were those Hurricanes and Bf109s sold to Yugoslavia? Bit unclear from what I can tell whether they'd have those planes if Mussolini's invading in the summer of 1940.

And how well would that go? Italy wasn't exactly much good vs Greece, and whilst there's a lot more frontage to hand it's still the same Italian armed forces as OTL. Would he have any chance - or desire - of getting Hungary or Bulgaria onside?

What I'm seeing here is Scheubner-Richter's Nazis hewing rather closer to "generic" reactionarism than OTL - it's still somewhat esoteric, still has paramilitaries, and still virulently antisemitic even by the standards of the time; but it's a lot more overtly Christian and less populist than...

Punk's still injured regardless, still has to spend the next half a year out of action recovering. Main difference is that the Elite aren't suspended.

Ripping up the Oath of Allegiance, whilst legal under the OTL Statute of Westminster, would absolutely not be under a United Empire-drafted one - but De Valera is still likely becoming PM of the Free State anyway, so if he does it anyway, would Britain do anything about it?

Were the U-boats being held back capable of reaching the US coast? There were attempts made to send the Type VIIs across (the majority of the fleet), but to do so pushed them to the absolute limit of their capacity. Said attempts (from what I can tell) occured from early March onwards - when...

Ho Chi Min and Che Guevara also didn't lose to the USA twice immediately after being supported by them against a neighbour. Yes, the Iranian regime was more openly conservative, but they were also consistently anti-American and anti-West - Saddam's Iraq invaded that bastion of anti-Americanism...

What you'd be looking at there is convincing one of the Scandinavian monarchies to put some money behind rediscovering Greenland and Vinland (and then the further Americas) in the early 1500s. Was either Denmark or Sweden in a position to do so?

After the Exclusion crisis, the family of James, Duke of York & Albany and brother to Charles II, lived in Edinburgh. In 1682, after the furore had died down, he set forth from London on the 3rd-rate frigate Gloucester and a small fleet to retrieve his pregnant wife and child. On the night of...

Of course, if Attila actually has Honoria wed at the end of 452, instead of OTL where she was promised to him but never actually delivered, that might affect his decision making in 453 (presuming that everything from 450 onwards is unchanged). He'll still have an ERE army on his Pannonian...

Getting it acknowledged by Ravenna - or Rome for that matter - without having to bring the Hunnic army to its gates is unlikely, given what Valentinian III was like. But it would be a motivating factor for Attila to commit to staying in Italy rather than retreating as he did OTL, and...