Here are some rules/cliches that I find happen alot in AH:
1. Bismarck's law is never in effect (Otto Von Bismarck once said: "God protects fools, alcoholics, and the United States of America"). I mean, in just about every AH book the US gets beat up, I know this is mainly because the US has won just about every war it was in so a easy POD is "What if the US lost at Gettysburg" or "WI Washington was killed crossing the Delaware", but please people, the US has always been very capable. Why don't I ever see "What if the US won at the first battle of Bull run" or "What if Washington wasn't burned during the war of 1812?".
2. ASBs never help the side that is winning the war.
3. Nobody ever considers that a future political figure may have died in a war, nor does anyone ever considered that a future political figure that died in a war in OTL (like, say, that one Kennedy in the air force) may have survived.
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1. Bismarck's law is never in effect (Otto Von Bismarck once said: "God protects fools, alcoholics, and the United States of America"). I mean, in just about every AH book the US gets beat up, I know this is mainly because the US has won just about every war it was in so a easy POD is "What if the US lost at Gettysburg" or "WI Washington was killed crossing the Delaware", but please people, the US has always been very capable. Why don't I ever see "What if the US won at the first battle of Bull run" or "What if Washington wasn't burned during the war of 1812?".
2. ASBs never help the side that is winning the war.
3. Nobody ever considers that a future political figure may have died in a war, nor does anyone ever considered that a future political figure that died in a war in OTL (like, say, that one Kennedy in the air force) may have survived.
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