by jamesyoung | Nov 26, 2020 | Alternate History, Promotions and Interviews, Usurper's War, Writing Business
At long last, it gives me great pleasure to report Against the Tide Imperial is live! All 400 pages of it!In this book you’ll find:Yamaguchi vs. Cunningham! More Bonhomme Richard (nee Yorktown)! Hellcats vs. Shiden!Hiroyoshi Nishizawa “enters the...
by jamesyoung | Oct 12, 2020 | Alternate History, Usurper's War, Writing Business
Against the Tide Imperial is complete! As my editors have been working concurrently, I’ll start updating with their revisions this week, with hopes to get the book up within the next 60 days. Of course, this is dependent on Murphy, who has been working overtime...
by jamesyoung | Mar 18, 2020 | Alternate History, Usurper's War, Warship Wednesday
If you ever wonder just how crazy things got towards the end of the Washington Naval Treaty, look no further than the Alaska-class large cruisers. I’m going to let the always excellent Drachnifel give a quick rundown of the vessels here: Unlike the poster (and...
by jamesyoung | Mar 11, 2020 | Usurper's War, Warship Wednesday
Thanks to the U.S.S. Iowa for filming this interior of the 16-inch turrets. In the case of the Iowa and many other late war ships, each gun could elevate and fire independently. Bonus: Here is a World War II-era training video. As an...
by jamesyoung | Feb 5, 2020 | Air Warfare, Usurper's War, Warship Wednesday
Interesting thing I discovered about carrier doctrine in writing the Usurper’s War series in general, but definitely with regards to Against the Tide Imperial: The three main carrier navies in our timeline did things very, very differently. The USN basically...
by jamesyoung | Nov 29, 2019 | Air Warfare, Usurper's War
I’ve been plugging away on Against the Tide Imperial most of November for Nano. I was amidst the Kido Butai engaging four of the Royal Navy’s carriers in the Indian Ocean when my memory jogged: I never reviewed Midway despite intending to right after...
