03-04-2012, 09:43 AM | #51 | |
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I really like that option: a german-lead "Eastern Bloc" of republican and democratic nations. Together with a liberal mindset this could result in a "eastern renaissance" driven by educated jewish/german intellectuals... - which would also be a massive loss to the US of A, since thousands of east-european jews would have no reason to leave their homelands...
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03-04-2012, 10:19 AM | #52 | |
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I don't see this as a valid objection to any alternate history. If something couldn't happen at all, that's a good objection, but if something was merely "extremely unlikely," then one need to recognize that unlikely things do happen.
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03-04-2012, 10:33 AM | #53 | |
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Not saying that this makes any alternate history good or bad. Just that different criteria apply.
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03-04-2012, 11:07 AM | #54 |
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03-04-2012, 11:30 AM | #55 | |
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The backstory is that a Bavarian military bureaucrat is ordering a few hundred (fictional) repeating rifles from the US. His english isn´t good enough to realize that the advertisment was not for plain weapons, but for the rilfemen as well, hardened and experienced civil war veterans, who not only birng superior firepower, but also tactics unheard of in central europe at the time.
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03-04-2012, 11:41 AM | #56 | |
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The fiction might be about the tactics. The US military doesn't seem to have realized the potential of magazine-fed rapid-fire rifles for many, many years. They wouldn't have issued all those trap-door Springfields if they had.
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03-04-2012, 12:00 PM | #57 | |
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03-04-2012, 02:46 PM | #58 | |
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Also the Dreyus needle gun was used extensively in the Austria-Prussian war of 1866 It was the forerunner of the modern bolt rifle and for the period had a lot of firepower. I don't think the shorter range pistol carbines would have made that great difference. One caveat though, its perfectly plausible technological leap to the more modern bolt action rifle design gained from exploration of the two technologies might have made a difference. A fast loading 5 shot Jaeger rifle with stripper clips and modern ammo would have been deadly till powder fouling caught up with it. |
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03-04-2012, 11:58 PM | #59 | |
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The main reason the author used a fictional gun was probably that he used the inventors backstory.
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03-05-2012, 05:31 AM | #60 |
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I would guess a straight-pull bolt action, but 1866 is (AFAIK) a very early alternate history appearance.
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