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  1. WI: Elphinstone dies at Kabul

    In OTL, Major General Elphinstone ordered a disastrous retreat from Kabul in 1842, against the advice of his officers, who wanted to hole up in a nearby fort and wait for reinforcements. He didn't, and the illusion of British invincibility was shattered (and he got a whole lot of people...

  2. WI: Charles I of England and Scotland dies in 1640?

    In mid-march, 1640, King Charles I's horse is spooked, throws him off, and kicks him in the head. His majesty dies soon after. The OTL Short Parliament has not yet been called, as this is at just about the end of the Eleven Years' Tyranny, and the young King Charles II is a couple months shy...

  3. Largest Plausible Papal States by 1899

    With a PoD after 1795, how large could the Papal States plausibly be, by 1899? You can choose the PoD. Two that occurred to me are Napoleon dying in the War of the First Coalition, or Victor Emmanuel II being stillborn.

  4. WI: John of Gaunt becomes King John II

    Imagine, if you will, that the Prince who in OTL became Richard II dies fairly young, either before becoming King, or not long after. Lets say that he catches one of the very many illnesses that occur in that era, so most people don't think it was an assassination. From there, its a small step...

  5. Man-In-Space-Soonest is not given a MISS

    In 1958, the USAF had a plan called Man-In-Space-Soonest, which was cancelled when NASA came on the scene. What if it hadn't been? Here's what the Encyclopedia Astronautica has to say about the plan: So, what if NASA hadn't been formed, perhaps due to the USAF having a stronger lobby, the...

  6. AHC: Longest Plausible Gallic and Palmyrene Empires

    During the Crisis of the Third Century, the Roman empire split in three, with the other two sections identifying themselves as the Gallic Empire, and the Palmyrene Empire. With a PoD no later than 260, when the Palmyrene Empire was founded, how much longer could those empires have remained...

  7. AHC: President Napoleon Bonaparte

    In the 1770s or 1780s, the Bonaparte family immigrates America. Once Napoleon is old enough, he joins the Army, and later enters politics, making it at least as far as President of the United States. Would he be able to make himself Emperor? If so, would the title outlast him?

  8. WI: Meteor in the Capitol Building

    In 1970, a few months before the mid-term elections, very early one morning, when no-one is there (or very few people are), A smallish meteor hits the US Capitol building, seriously damaging the south wing, where the House of Representatives (and joint sessions of the Congress) meets. Nobody is...

  9. WI: Hamiton and Burr both live

    Let us say that in the infamous duel of 1804, Burr and Hamilton both miss. In OTL, only Hamilton missed, and in some ATLs (not remembering the titles or authors, sorry), Hamilton hit and Burr missed, but I don't think I've seen one where the duel still happened, but both missed (not sure I've...

  10. Worst US Presidents Who Never Were

    Pretty much what it says on the tin. Look at past men and women who plausibly could have been PotUS, either through election, or through the President dying at the wrong time (FDR was pretty unhealthy for all his terms), and would have done a horrible job at it (to continue the FDR example, I...

  11. WI: Protestantism, Welsh Triads, and Henry VIII

    Was thinking about Arthuriana, and the interest the Tudor family seems to have had in it, when I remembered two of the Welsh triads (and then looked them up, of course): Triad 56: Arthur's Three Great Queens: Gwenhwyfar daughter of Cywryd Gwent, and Gwenhwyfar daughter of Gwythyr son of...

  12. DBWI: Best/Worst PMs of the UKGBNIC

    (OOC: Not sure if this needs to be in Before 1900, instead, but I think its possible with a PoD after 1900. To clarify the abbreviation, its the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and Canada.) IC: Its been nearly a century since the Act of Union that brought Canada into the...

  13. WI: Effects of a WWIII in 1962

    The Cuban Missile Crisis is said to be when the world was closest to World War III. Lets say that Vasili Arkhipov was to ill to be at his station, and his replacement gave in to the Captain and the Commissar's pressure, and agreed to the nuke-launch, setting off WWIII. How bad is it likely to...

  14. 1066: William sinks in the Channel

    Storms are not exactly a rare thing in the English Channel. Let us say that in September, 1066, a sudden, rather nasty storm pick up in the Channel, during the crossing, and William is swept overboard and drowns, along with a number of other people in his fleet. In the confusion, some ships...

  15. What If: Force Z(ombie - but not literally)

    This isn't quite ASB, because there have been insanely lucky people, ships, and so forth in history, and British intelligence did some fairly odd things in WWII - and because no actual zombies are involved. Let say that, rather than being badly defeated as in OTL, Force Z takes mostly cosmetic...

  16. WI: A Modern Angevin Empire

    Using a PoD somewhen between 1154 and 1214, how plausible is it that the medival Angevin Empire could survive to the present day (still ruled by the Plantagenet line)? How wide might it extend, in the 21st century (assume that, at minimum, the Empire contains Great Britain and the western half...

  17. WI: General Wallace chooses better at Shiloh

    Due to a misunderstood, or poorly written, order by General Grant at the Battle of Shiloh, Union General Lew Wallace and his division found themselves behind the Confederate troops, a near-perfect position to attack from. Unfortunately, Wallace then got a message from General Grant, asking why...

  18. WI: Constantine I dies at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge

    In OTL, the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, which Constantine won, is said to have been the start of his conversion to christianity. But, suppose that he'd lost it. Lets say that he died, struck by a spear in contemporary accounts, or one of Jupiter's lightning bolts, in later legends (clearly...

  19. DBWI: Your opinion of President Benedict Arnold

    OOC: the PoD for this is that General Horatio Gates died at the First Battle of Saratoga in 1777, and was thus unable to screw over Arnold. Butterflies improve his health later in life, leading to a later death. IC: On this, the 200th anniversary of the death of US President Benedict Arnold, I...

  20. AH Challenge: Empire of Virginia

    With a Point of Divergence no earlier than 1 January 1760, and no later than the OTL signing of the Treaty of Paris on 3 September 1783, create a plausible nation in North America named the Empire of Virginia, which effectively replaces the USA, has at least as much land area, and still holds...
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