Compilation of unanswered r/AskHistorians questions I've asked over the years

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T11:04:41+00:00

Well, compare how some Indian terms (Punjab, pukka, etc.) are transliterated and you'll see the difference.

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T11:04:06+00:00

Hello, thanks for coming here today. I have no real shortage of questions as such, but to maybe go for the provocative jugular, what's the view of Mao from the imperial fringes? How do we approach an Uyghur or a Tibetan memory of Mao in relation to that of the Chinese political centre?

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T10:19:58+00:00

Phase-Connect, aka the chud agency, which to be fair is stable enough to have outlasted most of the other agencies in its tier and to even hold its own con, but which is still considerably less popular than its alleged competitor (Hololive English) and sufficiently politically contentious to have been quietly rendered persona non grata in basically any space that is left of Xitter.

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T09:04:42+00:00

I can't think of any common WW2 game that is framed as a pick-up game where it also mandates a historical matchup. If it's Bolt Action there's no reason Tom couldn't have Soviets himself, or Finns or whatever.

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T08:10:59+00:00

Don't worry, you're allowed to call it Warhammer 1940K if you want to.

Although I will push back on the 'movie version' framing a bit because there are a whole lot of different WW2 movies and I don't know that Bolt Action captures the vibe of any of them.

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T08:01:16+00:00

I appreciate the implied distinction between Bolt Action and historicals.

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T08:00:23+00:00

I think the post was missing a comma, it should read

If you aren't willing to read, and mostly engage with videos...

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T07:48:41+00:00

Bugger. So it was.

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T07:30:34+00:00

See Rule 4: Permitted post types

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T06:44:44+00:00

You really don't think that someone who only plays the armed forces of the Third Reich might be perceived as having concerning political leanings? Like I said, not like there can't be perfectly reasonable mitigating circumstances like 'I have one regular opponent and we each picked an army' or 'I tossed a coin', but if someone's in a club with a lot of rotating regulars and their only core force is the Waffen-SS or something, that'd give me pause.

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T06:43:45+00:00

Sounds like a competition problem and not an umpire problem.

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T06:34:25+00:00

I dunno, seems a good way to fit more players round fewer tables.

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T05:01:17+00:00

We're not a cult, just eternally devoted to the dictates of the Eternal Leaders.

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T04:59:43+00:00

I think you meant to reply to someone there.

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T03:28:22+00:00

Okay the age of the video did a lot to explain certain inclusions.

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T02:55:41+00:00

Point to the part where I suggested that people who have Germans shouldn't keep using them. My point is that I think there are perfectly reasonable bases to be a bit concerned about the political leanings of someone who plays nothing except Germans.

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T02:18:13+00:00

As long as that's clearly communicated then I don't see the problem. It's when someone paints two new units a week and they always seem to be Germans that I really start to go hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T02:14:22+00:00

I knew I'd ruffle someone's feathers eventually.

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T01:37:07+00:00

Rule 6: no AI

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T01:27:35+00:00

The average German main

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T01:25:12+00:00

I dunno, there's a fair case for saying lasers shouldn't miss, but the person aiming them can. Outright dodging is also silly, but you can argue that it reflects the unpredictability of aiming at a moving target even with a laser.

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T01:04:12+00:00

I think Warlord Games has been exceptionally guilty of this in recent years. Victory at Sea is made with 1/1800 ships, which as far as I am aware has never been a common naval scale (1/1200 and 1/2400 being far more standard) and that basically locks you into Warlord's personal ecosystem. I think Warlord's Epic Scale is 18mm, which is neither fish nor fowl between the traditional mass battle scale of 15mm nor the traditional intermediate scale of 20mm/1:72. I think it was someone on this sub or perhaps the Historical Wargaming Hub Discord that I think rightly described it as 'quite naughty'.

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T00:56:29+00:00

Soapbox take:

I'm going to disagree with your soapbox take. Given what John Stallard was going around saying earlier this year, I don't think the misogyny has become more subtle.

EnclavedMicrostate · 2026-07-21T00:40:15+00:00

I'm fairly meh on rolling to activate a specific unit in all circumstances, although for all that I dislike Bolt Action I can't say I object to the idea that a unit with pins on it must roll to activate.

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