A World in Ruins
The New World and the Old, c. 1923
This is an incomplete draft of a map inspired by a number of different sourceworks.
This began life as an attempt to develop a homebrew playmat for my Axis & Allies gaming group. The idea was to increase the variability of game play by...
What if Samsonov dismounted the greater portion of his cavalry, sending the horses back behind the lines, and had received a codebook, allowing him to communicate with the front commander and Rennenkampf in secret?
Need some help with an alternate WW1 scenario.
Want to draw off German resources in the West to the Eastern Front. Any chance for the Russians to turn Tannenberg into a draw at least, then to attack simultaneously at First Masurian Lakes?
If I can regress to topic of helmets. I always thought it would make sense for Confederate soldiers to wear the 1915 Brodie helmet because so much of their kit would need to come from British factories. (Realistically speaking, the South faced enormous political hurdles to industrialization. I...
What about a rift between the Americans and British? Cryhavoc101 has pointed out that the Anglo-American relationship would be weaker if British war debt were smaller.
What if the yellow press in the United States ran away with the sudden death of Warren Harding and American attitudes toward...
I know there was an ultra-reactionary clutch in Belgium around the time of the Katangan secession. Possibly if events had transpired differently in Central Africa, Katangese independence could have been seen to validate the notion of direct action, culminating in an attempted putsch in Brussels...
Some broader African considerations, one relevant to the United States, and one relevant to NATO.
First, a Biafran victory could have inspired both a number of other revolts, particularly in South Sudan and the Congolese interior, but potentially in Southern Africa as well.
Second, a Biafran...
As part of an alternate history timeline, I and various friends have discussed many times whether the Confederate States of America would have been viable economically by 1914, the presumptive start date of a world war in which it would go toe-to-toe with the United States. Our conclusion was...
I've seen at least one account alleging that the Rats of Nam Yum, internal deserters from the French force, eventually numbered as many as one-third the garrison, with the implication that, had they fought, the outcome would have been different.
Interesting! Didn't know that.
I think it would be interesting to speculate on what NZ might have done had the British suffered greater losses against the Argentines. Would that have prompted distant governments like that of NZ to rethink their vulnerability?
Another question is whether an...
Are you saying that Lincoln would have take any measure to prevent the Trent Affair blowing up? I would think that, given Captain Wilkes's character, there was a very good chance of some outrage being perpetrated during the stop of the Trent that would have made any mollification moot.
Help me get a more realistic timeline for the premise of How Few Remain.
Start with the assumption the Trent Affair results in British military intervention. With the help of a British Expeditionary Force to pin the Federal Army of the Potomac, Lee defeats McClellan in detail during the...
The goal is to get to an alternate 1917 by making changes prior, not to start making changes in 1917.
For example, if I remember correctly, the first change currently in the timeline occurs in the 1600’s.