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Post by lordroel on Feb 22, 2022 15:37:19 GMT
That would ultimately be in the interests of neither state. As we know, things can go out of hand easily. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Feb 22, 2022 15:47:50 GMT
That is neither here nor there. I do know where I’m going with the timeline, as with all Dark Earth, and it is not towards a sudden major Soviet-Chinese war.
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Post by lordroel on Feb 22, 2022 15:48:15 GMT
That is neither here nor there. I do know where I’m going with the timeline, as with all Dark Earth, and it is not towards a sudden major Soviet-Chinese war. A okay. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Feb 22, 2022 16:07:28 GMT
On a macro level, I know what major trends are going to occur. On a micro level, I write each year in note form before fleshing out each month day by day. So I know what events are going to develop into something more, what are one-offs and which are dead ends. This helps to ensure that not every month is a soap opera full of melodrama and cliffhangers. I do game things out and keep track of numbers and stats for a reason. For example, the cumulative Vietnam body count helps me track force levels and timetable when certain actions and offensives occur.
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Post by lordroel on Feb 22, 2022 16:16:10 GMT
On a macro level, I know what major trends are going to occur. On a micro level, I write each year in note form before fleshing out each month day by day. So I know what events are going to develop into something more, what are one-offs and which are dead ends. This helps to ensure that not every month is a soap opera full of melodrama and cliffhangers. I do game things out and keep track of numbers and stats for a reason. For example, the cumulative Vietnam body count helps me track force levels and timetable when certain actions and offensives occur. That is a lot of fleshing out, hope you have everything nicely backed up with a back up. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Feb 22, 2022 16:29:21 GMT
Naturally. It isn’t that hard. The general principle in timeline creation for me is to hide the roots of the most significant events in plain sight.
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Post by lordroel on Feb 22, 2022 16:30:48 GMT
MarchMarch 3: The United States Navy establishes the Fighter Weapons School at NAS Miramar, California. And here is Top Gun, what are the British and French version of it, if they have any. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Feb 22, 2022 16:48:07 GMT
The French don’t have a specifically naval one yet. For Britain, the RAF and RN have a joint Empire Fighter Pilot School in operation since 1957/58 in the aftermath of the Middle Eastern War and Korea.
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Post by lordroel on Feb 22, 2022 17:09:38 GMT
MarchMarch 6: San Francisco Police Captain Harry Callahan disrupts the armed robbery of a liquor store through the creative use of his car, freeing four hostages and shooting the three perpetrators. Nice to see Dirty Harry. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Feb 23, 2022 3:48:34 GMT
He has a commitment to justice delivered in his own direct and rather special way; this does lead to growing clashes with City Hall and the political echelons of the SFPD.
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Post by stevep on Feb 23, 2022 16:18:31 GMT
March 1969March 1: The MCC Advisory County Cricket Committee announces the formation of a two tiered first class County Cricket competition, consisting of twenty teams in each division and setting out rules for promotion and demotion and the eligibility of players. - Well that makes for quite a change, especially with 20 teams in each division. Are those still 3 day games? If so that would mean a planned 57 days a season of cricket, even ignoring any 1-day games. Also a lot more teams will be completing at top level. Which makes me think are there teams other than Glamorgan from outside England?
March 2: Soviet and Chinese border troops exchange artillery fire across the Ussuri River throughout the day as tensions increase. - glad to here from what you say below it gets no worse than OTL. March 4: A trio of Cricklewood-based benevolent crime-fighting adventurers known as 'The Goodies' confront and defeat a gang of disguised robots intent on destroying their reputation and arrest their mastermind controller, the wicked Dr. Wolfgang Adolphus Ratfink Von Petal. - 
March 5: Swiss voters narrowly reject a referendum proposal to grant women the vote and the right to stand for election to political office. -  although IIRC this might have been OTL. March 9: Chilean Carabineros fire on a crowd of anti-government protestors in Puerto Montt using new electrical riot guns and tear gas, injuring over 120 and killing 3 - Well at least its a lot less lethal force than would have been likely at the time. March 13: A Soviet fishing trawler in the North Pacific sends out a panicked radio message reporting that it is being eaten before disappearing. - I warned them they were over feeding those goldfish. Assuming this is something like another megadon attack.
March 14: Twenty people are slain by a cloaked shadowy murderer in a single day in Indiana in a series of horrifying attacks. The perpetrator evades police by flying off into the night sky when cornered in downtown Bloomington. - Not good and shows there are super villains as well as super heroes.
March 15: Southern Colombia is struck by an earthquake registering 7.6 on the Richter scale. - Nasty.
March 16: Home Office environmental sorcerers complete the cleansing of the Thames River, restoring its water quality to designated pre-industrial levels after a fifteen year purification process. Spokeswizards state that the river water will be safe for human consumption within weeks and that a full range of fish and marine animals will return within a year. - Excellent.  March 19: Fuerza Aeria Royale Colombiana reconnaissance aircraft investigate garbled reports of the uncovering of what appears to be hitherto lost ancient city by the Putamayo Earthquake. - Inca or earlier?
March 20: An aerial convoy of long range transport jets begins the delivery of substantial Soviet reinforcements of manpower and materiel to North Vietnam. March 22: First operational test firing at of the Royal Navy's new submarine launched medium range strike missile, the de Havilland Blue Moon, fired from HMS Jellicoe at a target range in Kenya from a distance of 1246nm. - 
March 24: The King of Jordan dismisses his Prime Minister and the entire cabinet in a dispute over a new joint defence agreement with Britain and the United States. - Guessing the king is pro-British and his cabinet less so?? March 26: Mikhail Suslov, the noted CPSU ideologue, is promoted to Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, formally cementing his position on the Central Committee. - Never a good sign. However know he was influential OTL. March 30: The British Army introduces new general service body armour adaptable to a full range of operational climes and theatres. -
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Post by simon darkshade on Feb 24, 2022 12:15:59 GMT
Steve, 1.) It is a very different and larger expansion of First Class Cricket. It takes the Minor County Competition and integrates it with the frontline counties. Historically, there were 17 First Class teams at this point (Durham coming in 1992). Here, the existing 17, Durham, Staffordshire and Buckinghamshire make up the First Division, whilst the Second Division consists of Berkshire, Cornwall, Devon, Cheshire, Norfolk, Oxford, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Suffolk, Cumberland, Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Cambridgeshire, Shropshire, Northumberland, Monmouthshire, Berwick and Lyonesse. Capacity has been built in for the promotion of Irish, Scots, Lyon or Welsh sides who, along with Rutland, Westmorland, Huntingdonshire, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands compete in Second Class Cricket. There haven't been any one day games at this time, but there is a fairly packed season, particularly when one of the big foreign sides (Australia, the West Indies, the USA or Canada) are touring. 2.) There simply aren't the drivers for it to blow up without radical changes which are absent. The leadership of both states is quite, quite realist. 3.) The Goodies beat the Baddies! 4.) Historically, the Swiss did not approve it until 1971, when it got through with 66% support. Here, it is growing towards that level a little later. 5.) It certainly is. Historically, there were 7 killed by live fire and tear gas, so there is a slight adjustment. 6.) Not quite, but something else nasty that has moved in to fill the gap in the food chain. 7.) Exactly. Once again, you get the intent very clearly. 8.) It is completely ahistorical and they never are nice. 9.) The Thames situation is a big change and comes from the byproduct of greater interest in environmentalism and what we'd call sustainability after WW2, as well as the general influence of the druids and elves upon a somewhat more respectful approach to nature. It isn't all driven by love and hugs, though, as a country that takes better care of its natural resources gets better mileage out of them, pays less for imports and, as ever, has more in the figurative bank for times of trouble. 10.) Much earlier than the Inca. 11.) The Soviets are moving to reinforce NV as matters in the south turn towards their endgame. They don't intend for another repetition of North Korea. 12.) Blue Moon is the result of the need for submarines (and surface ships for that matter) to be able to hit targets well inland with a response speed faster than that of a cruise missile. Interestingly, it is intended primarily as a conventional weapon, not a strategic one. 13.) Broadly speaking, you are correct. The nuances are a little bit more complex, but you've got the general gist. 14.) He is one member of a very different Politburo, representing the Party faction. He was very significant in @, but Alexei Sergeyev is no Leonid Brezhnev... 15.) This is an improvement upon the types demonstrated in 1964 in ANJ, coming from the operational lessons of the Far East and Africa. 10.) |
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Post by simon darkshade on Mar 4, 2022 14:09:43 GMT
April
April 1: An unknown group of wizards conducts a series of pranks across New York City, including changing all of the sorcerous screens in Times Square to show the same image of a plaintive duck, colouring the Hudson River pink and placing a large moustache on the Statue of Liberty.
April 2: Release of Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli’s Greatest Adventure, the tenth book in the long running Jungle Book series.
April 3: Announcement of the retirement of Free Polish Armed Forces by the Polish Government in Exile. The heritage of certain units will be perpetuated by newly raised British Army regiments, whilst the five operational Polish Air Force squadrons will be amalgamated with the Royal Air Force, with preferential recruiting for members of the Polish exile community in Britain.
April 4: Dr. Denton Cooley successfully transplants an artificial heart into a patient in Houston.
April 5: Eighteen skiers are buried in an avalanche at the Riksgränsen ski resort in Swedish Lappland, but are rescued thanks to the heroic efforts of hundreds of Swedish and Norwegian police, local volunteers, rescue dogs and two passing trolls.
April 6: A crazed sniper randomly kills two motorists and injured fifteen in a horrific incident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
April 7: The US Supreme Court rules that the private possession of obscene materials was not protected in Stanley v Georgia, citing the authority of Roth v. United States
April 8: The French Army begins renovation and modernisation of certain ouvrages of the Maginot Line for use in the atomic age as hardened underground command facilities in addition to their residual role as border fortifications.
April 9: Philippines soldiers capture a Japanese holdout on Lubang Island, with another narrowly escaping their grasp.
April 10: British intelligence agents report that the commander of the African Liberation Front has been identified as one Kondo Simba. An indistinct photograph of Simba does not bear any resemblance to any known revolutionists.
April 11: Release of 'The Glowing Sea' a new post apocalyptic novel by renowned British science fiction author John Wyndham.
April 12: Revival of the Subbotnik concept of voluntary community labour service on Saturdays in the Soviet Union, the latest in a series of efforts to raise productivity.
April 13: The CIA station in Berlin receives a garbled shortwave radio report from a field agent of his discovery of a huge underground research facility in the German Democratic Republic beneath Karl Marx Stadt. His last screams are of the appearance of “hundreds” of some sort of" "identical" object.
April 14: Boris Spassky defeats Tigran Petrosian to win the World Chess Championship in Moscow, increasing interest in a putative match between the USSR and the Rest of the World.
April 15: The United States Navy formally establishes a Corps of Aquanauts for its intrepid underwater explorers as part of expanded interest in exploration of the mysterious depths of the world's oceans.
April 16: Television watchers in the United States are warned to stay at least five feet away from their TV sets by the US Department of Health on account of potential radiation and other dangers, after five boys in California contracted the exceptionally rare 'Square Eye Syndrome'.
April 17: Strategic Air Command begins introduction of the AGM-85 Short Range Attack Missile (SRAM), a Mach 4.5 weapon with a maximum range of 250 miles, on B-47 Stratojet and B-52 Stratofortress bombers; integration on the B-70 Valkyrie and other bombers is to follow. Testing of a long range strategic cruise missile is ongoing.
April 18: A private member's bill to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 is resounding defeated in the House of Commons 425-131.
April 19: Interpol detectives assisted by two British agents arrest a gang of international criminals at a remote Swiss mountaintop chalet after uncovering an outlandish plot to assassinate President Kennedy using an orbital death ray controlled by large mirrors. Their balding heavyset leader escapes in a rocket pod on a southerly trajectory.
April 20: The British Army begins testing of an armoured vehicle equipped with an advanced heat ray in the Kalahari Desert, utilising recent advances in arcane batteries to enable the hitherto large weapons to be carried in mobile battlefield vehicles.
April 21: US Army Vietnam announces the successful conclusion of the Operation Rumble, claiming a body count of over 30,000 Viet Cong and reporting the destruction of every targeted base area. General Abrams approves the assignment of American and Free World journalists to field units to inspect the battlegrounds and report on the victory now that conditions are sufficiently safe.
April 22: Robin Knox-Johnston returns to Falmouth, having completed the first successful solo non-stop round the world yacht voyage.
April 23: President Kennedy outlines his proposal for the expansion of Medicare into a Universal Healthcare System in a speech in Chicago.
April 24: Colorado prospectors discover a number of large humanoid bones whilst searching for a suspected gold deposit near Aspen. Initial investigation and testing of the remains puts their age at an astounding 250,000 years.
April 25: A meteorite breaks up in the skies over Northern Ireland, with the largest fragment landing in a field near Londonderry and being secured shortly afterwards by police and Army personnel.
April 26: Manchester City defeat Leicester City 2-1 at Imperial Stadium before a crowd of 170,000 spectators to win the FA Cup.
April 27: Bolivian dictator General Rene Barrientos is killed as his personal helicopter is attacked and eaten by an Andean dragon.
April 28: A new Sunnyvale computing engine company, Atari, produces the prototype of the first commercial arcade videogram game, Ping, a clever simulation of table tennis.
April 29: Three Royal Navy Tribal class frigates conduct a show of force cruise in the Shatt al Arab from the Persian Gulf past the British island of Abadan to Basra and back, covered by the battleship HMS Vanguard offshore. It comes in response to rising tensions and incidents on the waterway between Iraq and Persia.
April 30: Rhodesia defeats the USA for the first time in an international cricket in the First Test in Salisbury.
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Post by lordroel on Mar 4, 2022 14:12:56 GMT
AprilApril 3: Announcement of the retirement of Free Polish Armed Forces by the Polish Government in Exile. The heritage of certain units will be perpetuated by newly raised British Army regiments, whilst the five operational Polish Air Force squadrons will be amalgamated with the Royal Air Force, with preferential recruiting for members of the Polish exile community in Britain. So what about if i remember Polish Africa, are there no Polish units there. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Mar 4, 2022 14:40:22 GMT
I refer you to the previous few years, where Polish Togoland was granted independence.
No, there were not. It is hard to maintain an armed force without a country for 24 years.
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although IIRC this might have been OTL.
