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  1. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    Xian's army is qualitatively superior, its an all volunteer force and benefits from having the industralized base to provide equipment and supplies to the troops. So we're talking boots, rucksacks (in the classic bergen sense), field jackets, uniforms in general load bearing equipment...
  2. Imperator Pax

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    To expand on the edit in the above post, Manchuria really is the most comparable entity at this point. Yuan Shikai was able to a limitted extent play both the provincial and national level game at the same time, far more than Duan or Cao part of this is because Yuan was much more accepted as...
  3. Imperator Pax

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    Mussolini was orignally supported by the French, and then he lost the plot and went well into cuckoo land. Literacy is still relatively low at this point, compulsory education is still relativley recent and largely in urban areas (probalby somewhere around half of hte population is literate...
  4. Imperator Pax

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    May 1924 Allen examined the papers with annoyance. The papers only really tended to bring bad news... but then so did the cables too often. The labor government under MacDonald had recognized the Soviet union which was an unpopular and controversial move. There had been an election in Italy...
  5. Imperator Pax

    Battletech: The Ghost Who Walks (Battletech Isekai)
    Extras: Son of Sam Teaser

    Son of Sam Canopus had a relatively free press, and Luxen being home to one of the few remaining universities in Canopian space had a larger literate population than most periphery worlds. Even if that hadn't been true the population would have passed the troop movements around by word of mouth...
  6. Imperator Pax

    I will be posting a teaser for the next update of Ghost Who Walks hopefully sometime this week...

    I will be posting a teaser for the next update of Ghost Who Walks hopefully sometime this week. [Incidentally I thought not being the forever DM and actually getting to play would mean I had more time, not less.]
  7. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: 1924

    1924 The rain might have passed, but they were taking full advantage of the soaking it had done the ground to evaluate things. Tires and tracked vehicles both were being watched by junior and senior officers alike. Percy too watched the review with obvious interest, which was a welcome change...
  8. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: 1924

    1924 Two hours after he had left the meeting Allen had taken the inner city train line to his next appointment. The new elecetric inter urban had opened the year before into what had once been part of the Manchu city. Now it was the industrial district, built up by the infl;ux of of money...
  9. Imperator Pax

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

    1924 His attention lifted from the note as the Texan spoke up, "That from Louie?" He questioned, as Allen recognized he should have been looking at other time tables...mostly for new automotive engines larger more powerful V8 and Edsel's V12. There were a lot of talks going on about such things...
  10. Imperator Pax

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    The simple answer is railways... and yes the biggest issue with Chinese administration is that in this period is that infrastructure both in material and manpower had been neglected for so long that there were provinces that had degenerated to the point where some counties in Sichuan were...
  11. Imperator Pax

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

    April 1924 The 10th Division of the Army had reached strength on schedule for the summer drill... it was just that the drill the previous year had started a little earlier than originally laid out. Right now they were herewith 1st. The active portions of the 5th were currently on the border with...
  12. Imperator Pax

    Tanya’s Hogwarts Adventures (Youjo Senki, Harry Potter)

    The Rif war was ongoing in 1926 and fighting in the Russian Civil Wars would exist until 1928, the warlord years in China are still ongoing even after Chiang 'unifies' the republic, Latin America and Mexico are both having stuff and things going on
  13. Imperator Pax

    Tanya’s Hogwarts Adventures (Youjo Senki, Harry Potter)

    need to reread the chapter before this I think, b;ut this was good
  14. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    "he's an artist, he paints fine, but boy are his ideas queer." - Young Carter probably.
  15. Imperator Pax

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    That's one that we should be seeing more of is socially English conspiracies were a popular fear of the time because of London / the British empire s hitherto dominant capital financial position Germany and France both also got hit with this to a lesser extent due to cultural stigma / inertia
  16. Imperator Pax

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

    April 1924 The holiday season had passed and despite the shuffle in King George's government things hadn't changed much. Percy, and Alston had remained in China bringing a needed stability to the diplomatic community given everything that was going. There had been considerations for Alston to...
  17. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: October 1923

    October 1923 Outside it was a relatively chill day, over cast and barely fifty according to the mercury. A fine day for inside and hot coffee... especially since it had looked like it was going to pour as ;he had come in from the run with 1stBattalion. The dark mahogany table was crowded with...
  18. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: September 1923

    September 1923 The drill was in good order. Impressive, and perhaps unnecessary but practice, practice, practice. Allen watched James as the Chinese General gave the order to move forward via radio. Men in cupolas relayed orders via hand signs to their squadron. Staff Officers were watching with...
  19. Imperator Pax

    So the Crockett is a Terran Hegemony Training 'mech (leaving aside that its an assault mech, and...

    So the Crockett is a Terran Hegemony Training 'mech (leaving aside that its an assault mech, and the weapons it carries /bt logic) the company found more of them at Dieron but they were also present at Northwind. As for unit structure yes nominally the company has sub commands under Gene, but...
  20. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: August 1923

    September 1923 The Earthquake in Japan had caused a firestorm. Literally. It had come in at lunch time after all, put sky scraping waves into the coast with untold devasation. They hadn't had all the fires out until Monday morning... and if one were superstitious the typhoon off the coast sure...
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