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  1. Grey Wolf

    Crassus defeats the Parthians

    Marcus Licinius Crassus died in the catastrophic defeat for his forces at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC but what if he had won the campaign against the Parthians? One survivor was Gaius Cassius Longinus who was quick to announce that if Crassus had followed his advice, he would have won...
  2. Grey Wolf

    Balloon Wars

    [This idea arose from a discussion me and my mate were having last night, after reading all the Chinese balloon stuff, but this discussion here relates to 18th and 19th century balloons] Can balloons fight balloons? I don't know any occasion when they did, but did they? One assumes that...
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    Persian ports underAlexander?

    I assume under Alexander, ports on the Persian South coast were used by his army or just by the merchants. Which ports were available, and did he rename any of them to Greek new names?
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    Byzantine heraldy, banners and standards

    My understanding is that the eagle that we all think of as "the Byzantine eagle" was actually a development of the Paleologus family crest. Before this, what was used? Did the Komneni have their own emblems, for example? And was there a long-lasting symbology from the ancient Roman world -...
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    Infinity Wanderers magazine

    Re-using the name of my old website from 20-23 years ago, a new magazine has been launched, titled INFINITY WANDERERS www.infinitywanderers.com is the main home for it, currently redirecting to a sub-domain of the Scimitar Edge imprint Infinity Wanderers is a new magazine publication, aiming...
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    Slender Threads by L.G. Parker

    History is an intricately woven tapestry hanging in space and time. Remove one thread, replace it with another, and the entire picture changes. Slender Threads by L G Parker includes One Stay Bullet - a different Battle of Shiloh and The Story Behind One Stray Bullet including subsequent...
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    France defeats Britain 1910s (creating this dreamt world)

    CREATING A WORLD My dream had a world by 1930 where Britain had been defeated by France in a world war in the 1910s, with London firebombed and new slums built, intended to be quality housing for those who had lost theirs, but with no ongoing money or support. I'm looking for ways to create...
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    Byng Bam But

    One thing that has always interested me about the Seven Years War is that the French loss of its Canadian territories happened several years in. I'd like to explore the idea that the war ends earlier, and thus France holds onto those lands... 20th May 1756 A lucky shot from the French, possibly...
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    Scharnhorst joins Graf Spee at Montevideo

    This came from a fever dream this afternoon, so there's no background, I just woke up and it was what I had dreamt The Scharnhorst breaks out into the North Atlantic at the start of the war and when the Graf Spee puts into Montevideo, the Scharnhorst joins her there.
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    18th century land travel

    Despite lots of reading etc, I am still none the wiser what people DID to get between towns and cities - ride a horse with saddle bags - take a pony and trap - take the stage coach - get on a canal - take a coastal ship Now, I mean I KNOW they could in some circumstances have done all or any of...
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    Different transliterations

    I often wonder what happens if English translates how a word SOUNDS rather than how its spelling in another language makes it appear that it is supposed to sound. For example, what if Vodka was called BARTKA in English Or the animal was a SHAGWAR
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    France holds after Italy declares war 1940

    I think this has to go down as a CHALLENGE! It's from a dream last night, where France's defensive lines Normandy-Aquitaine and Lyons-Languedoc hold against the Germans, AFTER the Italians have declared war, allowing British ships to use Toulon as a base against the Italian navy. How could...
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    A non-federal German Empire in the 1800s

    The two most discussed types of Germany in the 19th century are basically federal empires - the German Empire that emerged after the Franco-Prussian War, or the abortive 1848 creation. In both, the local rulers retained local sovereign rule, passing on higher functions to an executive and...
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    Who rules Hungary if it becomes independent in early 19th century?

    AFAIK the main possibilities are usually seen as 1) A cadet branch of the Habsburgs 2) The Esterhazy line Or someone else? Are there cadet branches of other lines still going?
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    Nimitz lets the Japanese have Midway

    What if instead of setting his own trap for the Japanese, the choice of Nimitz is to not fall into THEIR trap by staying away from the island. The Japanese send out all their battle groups, and take the island... but there is no battle. What happens next?
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    Airship Transport Times?

    I am not familiar enough with how long airships of World War One and just after vintage took to reach places I know the L59 went from Germany to Bulgaria and then on as far as the Sudan before turning back, but not the timeframe it took to do this. I know it later bombed Naples from a Bulgarian...
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    Muslim Balkanisation in the Balkans, 1800+

    I am looking to do is to have the Balkans be, er, Balkanised by MUSLIM entities split off from the Ottomans, but acknowledging a vague relationship of suzerainty, like Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and Egypt are doing in Africa. This can be mixed with Montenegro, of whatever size, and Ragusa. There...
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    Province of Quebec to the Ohio river?

    This seems to be a legal interpretation but was it ever a real one? How could it have turned into long-term reality and what would it have meant?
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    3-tier Imperial Parliament in London

    I was thinking that a third house, say call it the Imperial Senate, could be established alongside the Commons and the Lords The exact make-up would be either one delegate from each dominion, or crown colony, or whatever the criteria is. Or it would be based on population, but I can't really...
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    A time of Emperors

    At the start of the 19th century the idea that if you have an empire, especially one encompassing multiple kingdoms, you should bear the title Emperor? e.g. Britain is a multiple kingdom (Great Britain and Ireland, where Great Britain is a union of the kingdoms and Scotland and England, where...
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