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  1. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: October 23rd 1924

    October 23rd 1924 The war had eclipsed Double Ten day, but even if it hadn't the holiday had meant increasingly less in the north's urban districts of note. With Beiyang units fighting each other especially in cities with or formerly with republican sentiments there seemed little reason to...
  2. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    So with Italy, its the breakdown between the disconnect between Mussolini prioritizing the Navy especially (you see this problem with Japan also) in regards to oil and steel production, but also Italian procurement didn't keep up with doctrine, due to how Fiat and the other big company I don't...
  3. Imperator Pax

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

    October 1924 Most of the papers were busy down south, especially because Shanghai was on the frontline of the fighting while the fighting in the north was largely tied up around the great wall. War correspondents wrote of the fighting between the fractured cliques in the same exaggerated...
  4. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Battletech Junkyard

    Future Material at somepoint The thing about writing SI fics is I can bitch about stuff thats Work In Progress that still isn't ready to go up, so I figured I would cross post some information from there and talking about stuff that will eventually probably get written out or posted in some...
  5. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    I apologize about the formatting but this started in PMs, where I was asked about corruption and the political power of the gentry and basically the following is the Gentry is complicated by regional concerns and priorities. The power (and what policies they support) of the gentry is going to...
  6. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    Xian's venerable 1 PDR is a 37mm fast firing gun, as for the 65mm its a weird caliber the French and Italians did stuff with it but its in the middle between smaller calibers and then stuff like France's preference for the 75 and well the 65 didn't have the much time to come into its own before...
  7. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    I mean this from a strategic perspective... to be sure I am certain even though I don't have sources handy to look for evidence that there were people in both the northern and southern power structures who were like 'we have to have battleships as symbols of national prestige' regardless of the...
  8. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    The Beiyang government doesn't have the money for the navy it has, in part because even though CiCi gets trotted out as worst offender she was hardly the only one raiding the naval budget and the problem with a Battleship is that China doesn't really have the infrastructure to support them. I...
  9. Imperator Pax

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

    October 1924 The paper was aheadache but not unique. Cao Kun had done a lot to discredit the legitimacy of the office of the president of China... only an idiot would have argued otherwise... but now the legitimacy was questioned further as the battle in the north started to shift. This year's...
  10. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    The problem with Japan not attacking the US, is an internal political one to Showa japan, as a result of the Meiji constitution. The Navy's new officer clique had been posturing for this for a while... this went beyond the Meiji Era wargaming of 'lets look at hypothetical enemies and wargame...
  11. Imperator Pax

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

    Late September 1924 Allen surveyed at the troops in place along the unmarked border between 'Western' and 'Eastern' provinces. Silently contemplating what this would do to their own studies, their own population's opinions. Overhead the aircraft made themselves known with the signature of their...
  12. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Extras: and ironically this is an abridged overview of IJA development

    So I'm gonna touch on this, cause its tangentially related (you've already beat me to bringing up the Type 4, and I'll touch on that in a minute as well) and someone else brought up a good point this morning. The contemporary culture of the time inside of inside the Army of any institution...
  13. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    I have actually started foreshadowing this. Its not the Kwantung army who is making the changes though, its their neighbor to the north under Yamagata Iseburo, and then his successor, that has started noticing... now to be sure the Kwantung Army does push for more tanks (historically they were...
  14. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.
    Threadmarks: 15th September 1924

    15th September 1924 Allen scowled which a gesture mirrored by various other officers in the room under the harshness of the electric lights. Jun had remarked it was a Jiazhi year, which did not worry him per se... he wasn't even sure that idea of the long calendar cycle impacted Zhang Tsolin's...
  15. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    Honestly the 32 which is IIRC from my drafting notes is supposed to running the Liberty V12 engine (which is originally WW1 engine design that the US and UK both liscenced out and continued to develop) it makes about 400 HP (i've mentioned this previously its a very good engine for all sorts of...
  16. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    I'm going to speculate on points 3 and 4 based on two, and what I understand of the Italian system without doing extra research (which I will probably do at some other point when I have time) I strongly suspect two factors here, the first is charitable explanation of standing up a new industrial...
  17. Imperator Pax

    Pax's Alternate History Snippet repository.

    The difference after the northern expedition is that there was basically no espirit de corp remaining, during the Xinjiang border conflict the Ma clique (which is already defunct by this point in AoE) had spent the last twenty years disintegrating as a professional force. Originally the Ma...
  18. Imperator Pax

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

    September 1924 The city had been the first real city the cadre had exercised power in as approaching a government... they'd moved here ... into western Zhili leaving the old offices in Tietsin when the Old Dynasty had still been in power. Yuan Shikai had not minded, especially during the White...
  19. Imperator Pax

    Battletech: The Ghost Who Walks (Battletech Isekai)
    Threadmarks: Interlude: New Avalon

    Interlude: New Avalon She set at a desk at Yvonne's New Avalon estate, mulling another paper. Alexandria Cunningham looked at the communication. The battleroms from the periphery dominated the airwaves... that included ComStar's broadcasts of actions of Arkab Legion, Legion of Vega, and Sword...
  20. Imperator Pax

    Battletech: The Ghost Who Walks (Battletech Isekai)
    Threadmarks: 3rd Luxen Snapshot

    3rd Luxen If the boss had been here, he'd probably have had his Marauder hull down surrounded by holographic lights... and preparing to bait the enemy in the crushing embrace of double envelopment. Beau knew the situation was wrong. The situation was wrong but trying to put that into words was...
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