Only the first five. Dave & crew loses site of things like, oh, originality starting with The Chosen.

A decent variant on the theme with slightly warped orthodox chrisitianty as a foil would be Dave & Eric Flint's Belisaurius series. Better writing, much more sci-plot. Lots of Deus ex machina. They, however, have started to kill off some nice main characters, and thus are more refreshing that the General series in this respect.

A not-so-decent variant on the theme would be David Weber and John Ringo's March to the Sea books. The plot isn't 1/2 as interesting and the shenanighans they go through to use their technology to reverse engineer the industrial revolution are ridiculous. I kept wanting to ask which game level they were playing. If you're willing to jump over the plot holes, it's a wild ride. They really should have posted "Abandon all reason, ye who enter here" on the front cover.

Oh, and the protagonist is sexy in a dread Pirate Roberts sort a way with some teenage angst (thank god I'm, done with that) mixed in to make him "conflicted". Which is a nice change from middle aged men and married guys saving the world. If you're interested in that sort of thing.

yours,
t.
and now we're really off topic...
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