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by Tenshinai
2012-04-30 08:19am
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Fantasy worldbuilding : society / history / warfare
Replies: 29
Views: 5402

Re: Fantasy worldbuilding : society / history / warfare

If you have the hydrogen on the top of a zeppelin and keep the combusting engines down below, perhaps in nacelles beneath the rest of the ship, that should take care of most fire risk because any hydrogen that leaks will go UP, away from the engines. Historical zeppelins had engines after all, with...
by Tenshinai
2012-04-29 01:55pm
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Fantasy worldbuilding : society / history / warfare
Replies: 29
Views: 5402

Re: Fantasy worldbuilding : society / history / warfare

Technology We don't see a lot of this in the story, and what we do see has a rather wide range of sophistication, a possible plausibility issue. The navies of Windhaven are composed mostly of multi-masted cannon armed ships similar to late 18th century ships-of-the-line. The major nations have a do...
by Tenshinai
2011-04-22 06:25pm
Forum: History
Topic: Did Hitler & The 3rd Reich Save Western Europe?
Replies: 230
Views: 73712

Re: Did Hitler & The 3rd Reich Save Western Europe?

Tenshinai some stuff is just painfully wrong with your post but I don't have time to spell it all out. You have a very strange view of the West Wall to say the least; here's a hint, if it was not a priority then how to it consume more steel then the German Panzer force in the run up to WW2? Do you ...
by Tenshinai
2011-04-20 07:10pm
Forum: History
Topic: Did Hitler & The 3rd Reich Save Western Europe?
Replies: 230
Views: 73712

Re: Did Hitler & The 3rd Reich Save Western Europe?

That's what the public was told, but how much Stalin actually believed it can happen spontaneously - well, could be argued. Actions coincide with the words so i would say reliable enough. Translation; Germans never built the Siegfried Line. As the Siegfried line was built during the middle of WWI i...
by Tenshinai
2011-04-13 08:58pm
Forum: History
Topic: Female Personifications
Replies: 27
Views: 8354

Re: Female Personifications

They went away with nationalism. Those nations that still are nationalist still have them, those that are not, do not. My own nation is the proof of how wrong you are in that. http://www.stockholmoldtown.se/bilder/konstverk/moder_svea.jpg Old Svea is very much alive and well, and calling Sweden nat...
by Tenshinai
2011-04-13 08:17pm
Forum: History
Topic: Did Hitler & The 3rd Reich Save Western Europe?
Replies: 230
Views: 73712

Re: Did Hitler & The 3rd Reich Save Western Europe?

1) Can we take for granted that barring an aggressive Germany or other power in Western/Central Europe, Stalin would have unleashed his wrath upon all of Europe in a war of conquest at some point in the 1940's? No. Stalin´s basic idea was that the people of every nation would eventually rise up and...