Recent content by cbr

Putting heart and soul is good, putting your opinions is not and what is especially not good is putting your desire to punish commenters by destroying your own story. Obviously I'm not saying he can't do it or doesn't have the right to, it's his story and he can wreck it anyway he wants, but...

No, I do not agree, like at all. There is no instance anywhere where I am interested in the political opinions of the writer on an issue. I'm interested in the political opinions of the characters. If I see or read a piece of fiction and I come with the conclusion that that is the opinion of the...

Honestly to me it seems the author putting his personal feelings in the story and that is without fail a terrible mistake and that is on top of basically making the Romans lose their collective minds when previously they were completely rational.

American colonists will move into it anyway and after some time declare independence and ask to join the SUA. There's not really much that France can do to stop this from working.

Such a scenario seems pretty ASB to me. I don't think Britain had the manpower or the logistical support to "occupy" the USA. They managed to keep the US out of Canada and made several successful raids on the coasts, but going in land is a whole different kind of war, one that I don't think...

In the physical world we occupy what you are asking isn't possible. For the situation you ask you'd need to rewrite the laws of physics.

I'm getting quite a different feeling. It's more that Russia is going to be OTL England. Revenues from Siberia won't be that large for centuries.

Even if they take Vienna, holding it against the relief army was something completely outside the realm of possibility for the Ottomans. The occupation would be numbered in days and weeks. History would proceed practically as OTL, maybe with a prestige hit on the Habsburg name, but nothing of...

Russia selling Alaska to Great Britain is almost impossible without a POD as far back as 1813 I think. For most of the 19th century Britain and Russia were in a constant state of cold war, that went hot at times. The primary reason Russia even sold Alaska to the US was because they were...

Many many pages ago, in one of those historical flashbacks that Basileus444 writes at the start of each chapter it was implied that Andreas Angelos's son would indeed be emperor. I'm way to lazy to go search for it, but unless Basileus444 changed it more recently Isaakios will be emperor, but...

I have to say that that naval attack is actually pretty much impossible. I understand that you're trying to have a Pearl Harbor like attack, but there are many reasons why the attack you described can't actually happen. No fleet the size you described could ever sneak by undetected near...

I don't think people see it as natural law, but more like a self fulfilling prophecy. Most think that no dynasty will be seen as legitimate to rule by the people unless it's under the Mandate of Heaven so no matter how you split China or for how long, the rulers of the successor states will...

I didn't say that, I just pointed out that this argument was made before in this thread when the Tieh/Wu split was being discussed.

Did he try that before with the original China split and it was argued that the Mandate of Heaven means any split would be short at best?

If you control most of Asia than you're a problem for everyone else, not just other Asian nations, if for no other reason than it will hamper European expansion into Asia.