SUPERIMPERIALIST AMERICA ERA ONE: The Ascent to Domination (1844-1991)

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As alternate history, this is awful, terrible and the AH boards should rip it to shreds.  It fails the plausibility test early and often, and suffers from the ridiculous notin that after a century of changes the same people will bein the same place doing the same things, sometimes to the same people.

As far as writing and storytelling, it is excellent stuff, really.  Once you trhough plausibility, and even possibility, out the window, and everyone accepts that, it is fun.  Plus the story is internally consistent, which is rare once people start throwing the rules of AH out the window.  

Though the exact same things happeneing on the same date with no logial reason in some of the most recent parts are really off putting.  THe RFK assassination and the Reagan ones are just way too much.  

And if you are going to keep the same OTL assassins how can you skip Squeaky Fromme?  THE best would ba assassin name!

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HT is awful at AH right now.  He can't create a divregency without using some out there gimmick.  

I've stopped reading him.

The worst AH I ever read was about the Falkland Islands War.  The scenario was it happening a few years earlier.  In teh book, after the Argentine invasion, the RN is hastily assembled and sent down in about a week.  They scrape up a few infantry divisions to go down and do the nasty work of actually fighting on the islands.  The fleet overcomes some techinical difficulties arising from being scrambled so fast and gets to the island and handily defeats the Argentine navy.  THen they go about planning the invasion of the islands.

Only no one brought a map.

The RN forgot to give them a map of the islands the were supposed to invade.

Thankfully one of the Captains in the fleet used to have a sail boat and sailed around the islands.  Even better, he happened to bring it along, just in case it was needed.

Then they draw up their plans to invade the island and assign the Ghurkas, one of the finest light infantry units in the world, the extremely difficult task of guarding prisoners.

The entire invasion sees, if I remember correctly, 5 casualties.

Now that was bad AH.