......thats his first and only post?
thats more confusing...
Any changes to Timeline-191/Southern Victory
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thats more confusing...
More concerning than confusing.
His name alone is already suspicious but dogshit takes aren't really report worthy unfortunately.
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I will not deny that Slavery was a reason for Secession, after all 4 of the seceded States did say it was in their Secession documents. Though there is more to it then just slavery, I mean hell, every unbiased look at the War of Northern Agression shows that it wasn't about slavery (I'm from the North by the way, so checkmate)
Their first post wasn't report worthy but calling the ACW the "War of Northern Aggression" certainly is.
Just report him, I already did.
Nice, a Yankee Lost Causer.
Life is too damned short.
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I'm surprised the mods even let someone register with *that* username...
Well...
Keeping the POD:
--Lee wins a Pyrrhic victory near Gettysburg.
--A couple of months later Grant wraps up the whole ANV near DC and the South loses anyway.
With a different POD:
--Trent goes hot because, IDK, some idiot shoots the diplomats or something. Britain invades Maine and the Union peaces out after a year or two of two-front war.
--Circa 1880-1885 the Union finds a pretext for war (IMO, most likely the Confederacy trying to intervene in the collapse of the French puppet regime in Mexico) and invades. At this point, EITHER the British recognize that the Confederacy, by this point all but certainly a decaying unstable joke, is a lost cause (in which case the Union crushes it like a grape) or decide to throw good money after bad and have a much closer, scarier fight with the Union before peaceing out with a Union victory on points because the new Kaiser is ranting about matching the Royal Navy. In this latter case, *WW1 sees whatever unstable gutted remnants of the Confederacy are left getting rolled up in short order by the Union while the Brits suddenly find themselves without food, without Canada, and with Germany laughing all the way to the bank. Whoops.
I would have the Confederacy's industrialization be fleshed out with it being stated that the Confederacy basically "pulled a Kishi" through industrializing slavery much like how Chinese peasants in Manchuria were transformed into what amounted to industrial slaves by the Japanese.
Quite simply, Canada is a lightly populated country where 99% of everything of importance is within 100 miles of the extremely long border. It's easy to control everything important, and you don't want a big enemy military base with a small country attached sitting right above your main industrial region. So annex Canada, swamp the region with settlers, and set up some naval patrols to remind London who's boss in the hemisphere. Insurance policy, basically.
No American government would be able to let the CS go as a coherent independent nation after the CS nuked an American city. Look at what we did to Japan IOTL, WITHOUT ever launching a coherent ground invasion. We damn near completely disarmed the place and caused a sea change in its politics that are still reverberating. It is our most reliable ally in the region except maybe Taiwan and has only elected a leader from a party other than the main pro-American party ONCE (and his administration fell apart soon after) since we occupied the place. And that was a country all the way across the Pacific, composed effectively entirely of non-white people, WITHOUT a US city being a radioactive crater.
(this is handwaving all discussion of the CSA's military performance in TL-191 canon, which as has been litigated an infuriating number of times, makes no logical sense and basically depends upon a series of handwaves making the CS not only a powerful industrialized nation but also a powerful industrialized nation with its primary opponent sabotaging itself repeatedly for no reason)
Considering the more leftward swing of the US, I think it's beyond reasonable to have the US back the Red Rebellions. From a how I would write it POV, have a reporter with a radio get embedded with the rebels somehow, then have them regularly send back reports about the Noble Negro Rebel Heroes fighting bravely for Father Abe and Comrade Marx. They go from raiding plantations to prepping for a big strike on a CS military base that they take over and use to launch a coherent breakout attempt towards advancing Union forces.
Call it "Three Hundred Thousand More" after this song:
It's been said already, but trench warfare shouldn't have been nearly as widespread as it was.
If anything, in TL-191's America, cavalry should have been having its last heyday. The open nature of many of the territories where battles would have been fought would have been perfect for cavalry in a way that Europe in 1914 wasn't.
If anything, in TL-191's America, cavalry should have been having its last heyday. The open nature of many of the territories where battles would have been fought would have been perfect for cavalry in a way that Europe in 1914 wasn't.
I thought that everything west of the Mississippi was more or less that. Whereas the east was predominantly Trench warfare?
IIRC he had a bit of it in Book 1, but then we saw trenches in Texas and such after that. And Custer's constantly giving out about 'WHY CAN'T WE USE THE CAVALRY, DAMN IT!??' even though Kentucky should be OK for that kind of warfare too.
Which was a real missed opportunity IMO: I'd have focused on it being fundamentally different to RL WWI, not have it be 'The Western Front BUT AMERICA'.
Going to be honest I'm surprised at that there isn't mormon perspective in the books. Yeah I get there's a way too much characters but they also a ton of interesting stuff that you can do with Mormon civilian in US occupied Utah