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  1. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    HOnestly as much of a problem as the torpedo was I'd still argue that Quartermasters corp during the interwar years did the most harm to US preparatory efforts and the US Signals Corps of the bureaus probably did the most proactive work but thats also because they were involved in airplanes and...
  2. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    Its more the period, 'we can't allow these entrenched bureaucrats and their provincialism to prevent moving forward'... which historically Ordinance continued to be a pain in the ass as did the other bureaus to US war planning in the lead up to ww2, and then ordinance returned to being a problem...
  3. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    And of course as an addendum most of the resistance he'll not just to semi automatic/ sub machine guns but for that matter to bolt actions came from the various ordinance branches and officers who thought they would lead to wasted ammo People talked plenty even before ww1 about semi automatic...
  4. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    This, and also this is a period where especially during war time where particularly as we saw during ww1 the cost of ammunition is measured in what rounds are duds in a batch. The shell crisis in England that eventually brought lloyd george to power was not unique to England and WW2 taught...
  5. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: July 1924

    July 1924 Sixteen men and four officers stood around him drawn from the ETS Assault Company attached to 1st Regiment. The youngest sergeant couldn't even grow a proper beard yet, but wore a field jacket hallmark of Xian's Regimental Scout Sniper graduates. By the end of the decade the sergeant...
  6. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: July 1924

    July 1924 An ETS was as the name implied an experimental unit, and these days they tended to build into increasingly large units. An ETS Assault Company of 1924 as attached to 1st Regiment was the Colonel's option to breach an enemy strong point thereby allowing a following on force to mount an...
  7. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    There is an abundance of post grad research on just how varied armies in China were in the warlord period and on both sides of it and the disparity in geographic regions north south and west to east becomes very pronounced Supposedly there are accounts of the use of wall mounted black powder...
  8. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: July 1924

    July 1924 The fourth was around the corner. The papers had already started anti-bolshevik bylines in Xian, which really went to show that election season was around the corner. It would become more even more pronounced once the mid autumn festival began, and the summer drills were concluded. "By...
  9. Imperator Pax

    The Aurigan Renaissance [A BattleTech Isekai]

    yes hopefully it won't be a year (that really escaped me) before the first part of 6 goes up i've got stuff for Kamea in the next chapter
  10. Imperator Pax

    The Aurigan Renaissance [A BattleTech Isekai]
    Threadmarks: 5 Conclusion

    5.5 Heron felt the twitch, it was a subconscious gesture of aggravation at this ... mess. He hadn't started to pace yet, or perhaps that was a worse sign. The truth was he hadn't expected the conference to have a necessarily speedy resolution, but he had hoped that it would be a success. He had...
  11. Imperator Pax

    Ideally I'll have the update for Eminence in Shadow in November or December but we will see...

    Ideally I'll have the update for Eminence in Shadow in November or December but we will see. That update is still heavily WiP
  12. Imperator Pax

    Archon updated today, Wednesday i'm looking to update Aurigan

    Archon updated today, Wednesday i'm looking to update Aurigan
  13. Imperator Pax

    Archon's Curse [Pathfinder Kingmaker]
    Threadmarks: Late Erastus 4715

    Late Erastus4715 Eire found that it was good that his realm was mostly human. Tool use, more importantly the tools to make the tools were sized for humans, and in turn that the steady progress of agriculture ... the use of horses the rotation of crops and other developments more closely...
  14. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: Late June 1924

    Late June 1924 The Regular Army and the National Guard were still at drill, and if some had noticed the gradual reduction, and movement of some officers or even some units from exercises it hadn't reached public chatter. This meeting might change that, realistically these sorts of meetings were...
  15. Imperator Pax

    I am aiming to update Aurigan, and Archon this coming week. Future updates are a ways out but...

    I am aiming to update Aurigan, and Archon this coming week. Future updates are a ways out but they will get updates hopefully before Halloween.
  16. Imperator Pax

    Just a heads up for anyone curious and this is tentative, I have a couple of Battletech snippets...

    Just a heads up for anyone curious and this is tentative, I have a couple of Battletech snippets slated to go up probably in Junkyard, one of those is the still WiP update for Aurigan so if I get it finished or nearer to ready it may just go up in its own thread but it will deal with the AR side...
  17. Imperator Pax

    no [it has not been abandoned] its update is actually further along than Aurigan. I waas...

    no [it has not been abandoned] its update is actually further along than Aurigan. I waas actually working on Archon's update last week its just not ready yet. The only reason Autumn updates like it does is the volume of material for it that I had semi ready. I really would like to say that I...
  18. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: June 1924

    June 1924 There had developed a certain air of lingering frustration over the dysfunctionality that pervaded peking... but it was also a reminder of how long this all had been going on. Yuan Shikai had been dead along time now. Long enough for the world to irrevocably change. "We have an air...
  19. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    Ammunition wise yes, Xian's production of ammunition by volume probably amounts to eighteen to twenty of months of high intensity fighting due to the way Xian's doctrine is structured. Part of this is Xian is frequently involved in brief high intensity skirmishes a well as border actions so Xian...
  20. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    I had to reread jomini and clauswitz for this, though thats largely because Jomini was the dominant military writer of the period, not necceasrily strategy text in the traditional sense but I've been rereading Kostinen's history of American warfare, particularly Moiblizing for modern warfare and...
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