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Topic Started: Oct 2 2010, 06:00 PM (4,556 Views)
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So? Honor Harrington's a big damned Mary Sue and she's still the best character in fiction in my opinion.*

* Obviously when you make statements like that you have to qualify them as your opinion, as people are too dull to tell and think you might be stating an actually fact؟
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I've been making an alternate history based around the British persuading the Germans not to invade Belgium for a year. Any hints or suggestions?
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As long as it doenst have long speeches and soliloques id read it....i have enough of bloody Macbeth for English coursework
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Well the Germans never wanted anything to do with Belgium really, it was the "back door" to France, they hoped to go around the French massing at the border and drive on straight to Paris and get the whole nasty business done by Christmas.

The invasion of Belgium was a surprises attack to get the war over quickly. After it became an extended affair, invading Belgium would only be bad for Germany.

They would loose a valuable neutral nation to trade with (Which is why they never invaded the Netherlands), they would bring the British into it, negating the Kaiserliche Marine's naval superiority.
Not to mention that Portugal and Japan would also join the fray, and both would love to get their hands on Germany's colonial possessions, or the Great Britain was Germany's biggest trade partner at the time.
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I have a morbid curiosity with what would happen if there was no WW2 and Hitler had stopped at Czechoslovakia... I mean imagine a three way cold war between Nazi Germany, Soviets, and USA and Britain
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Dude, I know this is completely unrelated, but I just noticed dftd is exactly like this one really patriotic british guy at my school.
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Oct 30 2010, 07:20 AM
I have a morbid curiosity with what would happen if there was no WW2 and Hitler had stopped at Czechoslovakia... I mean imagine a three way cold war between Nazi Germany, Soviets, and USA and Britain
Better yet, what if there was no WW1, which had contributed to WW2? What if Gavrilo Princip had missed?
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They have a story for that. It's called Ready for the Fatherland.
http://turtledove.wikia.com/wiki/Ready_for_the_Fatherland
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Oct 30 2010, 06:23 AM
Well the Germans never wanted anything to do with Belgium really, it was the "back door" to France, they hoped to go around the French massing at the border and drive on straight to Paris and get the whole nasty business done by Christmas.

The invasion of Belgium was a surprises attack to get the war over quickly. After it became an extended affair, invading Belgium would only be bad for Germany.

They would loose a valuable neutral nation to trade with (Which is why they never invaded the Netherlands), they would bring the British into it, negating the Kaiserliche Marine's naval superiority.
Not to mention that Portugal and Japan would also join the fray, and both would love to get their hands on Germany's colonial possessions, or the Great Britain was Germany's biggest trade partner at the time.
The generals at the time consistently attempted to put hings off, and one of them was relieved if i remember correctly. It was expected, but it doesn't seem Georges could have prepared well enough to counter the mechanised columns.
it would've been easier if he had put up a barricade behind the Ardennes though.

My thoughts are that a counter-attack by the better prepared allies craetes a three-month stalemate at the Meuse.
In that time, the Germans do better in the Eastern front because they send a second invasion force by ship to the other side of Russia, with a Japanese force. Plausible?
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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The Japanese going against the British in 1914? Unlikely. Even if they wanted to help Germany they were treaty bound to fight against them.

Article 3 of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance states: Promise of support if either signatory becomes involved in war with more than one Power. Germany and Austria-Hungary are both powers.
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I find the idea of a united Latin America becoming a modern super power interesting as well :)
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I like the idea of the Mexican and Brazilian Empire surviving to become great powers.
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If I were a big shot movie producer, I'd get the rights to Stephen King's zombie book "Cell" and get Alexandre Aja (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes, Mirrors, Piranha 3D) to write and direct.

He's the best horror filmmaker working today.
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Hm.
Personally, were I to do that, I'd get Stephen King himself to write the script, and the man behind "The Road" to direct.

EDIT: The problem with Stephen King's movies is that, shockingly, they overplay the horror aspect. To me, they've always been a little less about the horror, but still horrific. For example, "Cell" didn't strike me as another zombie-fest; rather, it was a journey through an empty world, that just so happened to be populated by zombie-like madmen. "The Road" definitely caught that sense of emptiness, of space, and I'd want that to be expressed in "Cell".
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