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  1. Zulu Survival

    What would be the best POD for the Zulu to end up more like Japan or at least Ethiopia by the end of the 19th century. I was thinking defeating the Boers in the 1830s and 1840s might be a good one, along with Shaka not being assassinated, and better acquisition and integration of firearms into...

  2. Map Challenge - Make it so!

    *bump8 Trying to revive this, any ideas?

  3. AH Challenge: Toussaint Louverture is made a Marshall of France

    *bump* I know this one seems unlikely even ATL, but give me some options here! Toussaint was recognized as governor by the Directorie while defeating every foreign army that attempt to land in Haiti. How much further of a step is Marshall?

  4. 19th Century - The Anglo-Russian War (poss. World War I)

    *bump* Perhaps a Fashoda war with a Franco-Russian (plus China) alliance against UK-Germany-Japan is the best option.

  5. WI: French Vic at the Battle of the Nile = Napoleon's Empire of Asia

    *bump* Btw, Napoleon was planning on recruiting (on buying, as needed) Egyptians and Nubians to swell the ranks of the Army of the Orient. If this program had paid off, would this be enough to swing things in the East to his favor?

  6. "They wanted me to be another Washington"...

    Really it all depends on if Napoleon really detaches from politics or he installs one of his brothers or a useful 'idiot' as the new First Consul.

  7. Post-1862 Confed Vic - True American Marxism

    In the later part of the Civil War, the South approached in some regions being on production and socialist levels similar to the early Soviet Union. Could an victorious or guerrilla confederate state find solace in the words of Marx(excluding the issue of slavery, of course)

  8. "They wanted me to be another Washington"...

    Be real, there can be no real peace with perfidious Albion! ;)

  9. "They wanted me to be another Washington"...

    What if Napoleon had indeed been another Washington and had retired to be a famous mathematician and physicist between 1803 (the end of the war of the Second Coalition) and 1808 (before the invasion of Iberia)? What effects would this have on world history?

  10. WI: French Vic at the Battle of the Nile = Napoleon's Empire of Asia

    As the title says, if for any number of reasons, the French win at the Nile (along with Nelson dying during the battle, he got a head wound during it), how will this change the fate of the Egyptian Campaign. Will a better supplied Napoleon be able to set out on his conquest of the East or will...

  11. 19th Century - The Anglo-Russian War (poss. World War I)

    Inspired by reading a book on the Great Game recently, I was struck by how many times Britain and Russia almost came to open war over various flash-points in the Balkans, Caucasus, Persia, and Central Asia/India. Knowing more about it makes me surprised that just the Crimean went hot. So, what...

  12. AH-Challenge: Bonapartist Africa

    Part I: D-day fails and the Free French government of DeGaulle gets couped, and replaced by the grandson of Napoleon III in mid 1945?

  13. What If: No or limited outside aid to Afghan resistance in the 80s

    What if theres an earlier POD with Islamic radicals that makes this an unwise or unpalatable move for the Pres and the CIA, thus leaving to the muj to be crushed by the Mongolian tactics of the Red Army?

  14. What If: No or limited outside aid to Afghan resistance in the 80s

    Do know if this has been done before, but what if, for whatever reason, there was no US aid to the Afghan resistance in the 80s and only limited help from Pakistan and the Arab states (lip service, but no real money, weapons, advisers, or volunteers). I don't expect this to be a glorious Soviet...

  15. Norman Roman Empire

    After a series of dynastic marriages, all the norman states of western Europe are united under one ruler and he becomes Holy Roman Emperor, crowned in Rome no less as defender of all Christendom. England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland (vassal), most of France, Germany, and Italy all are under his...

  16. Islamic Byzantium?

    What about the Iconoclasts? If they win or the early Muslims see them closer to being believers, could this equal or lead to a "Muslim" Roman Empire. :cool:

  17. Plausibility check: A "good" treaty of Versailles

    The sad answer to this is that there is no good treaty at the end of OTs WWI because everyone had sacrificed too much and the Central Powers had not suffered a classical Napoleonic type of defeat (capital beseiged, homeland invaded, etc). Lets go through player by player. France: They lost a...

  18. WI: Thomas Cochrane sets Parliament up the Bomb?

    Ditto! Perhaps the French could even lend covert aid (special units, supplies, money, pissed off Irish exiles). :cool:

  19. AH Challenge: Empire of Prester John (kinda)

    Simple, Genghis Khan is baptized at some point in his childhood and later mentored and consulted by a pious ascetic monk *bingo* Christian Mongol Empire! :cool:

  20. Map Challenge - Make it so!

    BTW, I have a few working ideas of how this crazy map can work, just logically thinking backwards. By region: The Americas - During the US splendid isolation (1919-1941) and again during the Cold War, we meddled alot in Latin american and the Caribbean; when the government didnt our...
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