Could the Confederacy have won if they developed atomic bombs first?

yes, in mspaint

Could Carthage have won if they beat the Romans in the space race

No, and thank fuck they didn't. The early radiation would have triggered the Huan-gook autism pyramids and would have driven humanity to extinction.

>tfw no union vs confederate zeppelin battles

>nuke the north
>radiation turns them all into snakes
>confederacy gets eaten
checkmate conservatards

No, their low industry would mean they could only force a stalemate and cold war arms race they would collapse under

>tfw Hannibal will never massacre Romans in a zero-G space battle

why didn't the south just build liquor factories and use the insane amount of profit from them to build and subsidize artillery, canned food, and small arms factories?

They could have won if they just deleted all the union units before the war started.

Honest question: why didn't they use hot air balloons to fly over the front lines and bomb Washington?

They would have won if Turtledove hadn't cucked out to his publisher and gone with Fuhrer McSweeney and the Mormocaust.

>Tfw the battle of Cannae will never be a 3 dimensional envelopment in space

>Could the English have won the 100 year war if they developed the machine gun?

they could have

Why the south never launched a full-scale attack on Washington is one of the great mysteries of American history.

The only answer, that makes any strategic sense, is that their forces were deployed with this attack in mind. But even still there were multiple times the union army was in somewhat shambles, see after Chancellorsville.

Frankly, in my opinion, it was absolutely retarded that Lee didn't attack D.C. after Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville.

By the time of Chancellorsville DC had been turned into a massive fortress, the Confederate army would've been stuck having to lay siege with long vulnerable supply lines and the Union army still in the field. The only time in the entire war that the Rebels might've been able to march on DC and win was immediately after first Bull Run, but even then it's debatable whether they would've had sufficient strength to succeed or if it would've ended the war.

Harry Turtledove, what are you doing on Veeky Forums?

More importantly, why hasn't he rewritten Southern Victory with the original planned ending of the United States being corrupted by German influence and unironically becoming the Nazis of TL-191 yet?

He spend two-thirds of the fucking series alluding to that and cucks out at the last minute. That fucking kike.

Washington City was one of the most heavily fortified cities on the planet and the Confederate Army never possessed the numbers or logistics to sustain a longterm incursion into Northern territory. Nevermind it completely undermined their hopes of appealing to France and Britain as the victims of aggression.

Frankly any incursion into the North apart from lighting fast raids by small units was a mistake.