Recent content by JJL

I'm no expert on this but I think a lot of the debate here is trying to combine the OTL ,after his death events, and this ATL together. The whole point is that if Alexander lived another X number of years the Diadochi wars would most likely not have happened. It was more the timing of his death...

Really like the simple diagram of the battle,I wasn't quite sure what you meant,it really helped.I'm slightly confused by the tactics employed (I can't help but think the Achaeans would have been better off fortifying the key forts and cities for a siege and employing their cavalry as a raiding...

Considering that in the last 25mins you've posted on multiple threads with irrelevant questioning of people's premises or past posts.,or tried to kill discussion of with bland "not possible " type statements I think you're missing the whole point of these forums. Instead of saying it's not...

Nabas was much later than the period I am referring to I believe,closer to Roman times? But not knowing much about it fair enough. And whilst I suppose technically Sparta eventually "won" the Naval side of the war against the city of Athens, I would argue that their navy wasn't of the same...

I was going to weigh in here. But I found that most of the main points have been covered. 2 other key reasons why they couldn't (and sorry if someone else has mentioned them in the above: -Their location- look at Sparta is on a map. Then look at the rest of the Greek states. Now whilst not...

I'm not an expert on this,so, if someone is ,please do jump in a contradict me. The word has been around for centuries but wasn't used as a swear word until much later. I doubt however that it's use was as early as the 1200's. The difficulty in this is because it was held to be more extreme it...

Sersor,is this likely to continue sometime soon? It's one of my favourite ATL's on here, would be a shame if it went no further

This sort of question astonishes me with the frequency it is postulated and the sheer idea that in warfare; weapon X naturally beats weapon Y but is vunerable to weapon Z (Or equally tactics,fighting style, technology in place of the "weapon") There is no set formula, and in any contest there...

Not an area I'm knowledgable on as it's late 14th-15th century but following on from these lines of thought , would a P.O.D with a much more successful Pope Julius II , fit the criteria? If the Holy league gave tribute or land back to the Papacy upon it's successes and Julius and his successors...

Dubious at best and not really recognized outside of Egypt. I can't see all the successors agreeing to the Egyptian Ideology. An obvious way would be a POD that had Alexander surviving longer and consolidating his power more, resulting in less of a split and more time for a cult following to...

( sorry if someone has brought these points up already) It would be nearly impossible to get a higher title without a religious link. If you had a Leader(not the pope) but a head of state who claimed direct connection to God/Jesus and could enforce that claim,say the Papacy recognized it as...

If the Phocians had more success early on in the 3rd Sacred war, and an earlier than OTL Thessalian federation sided with them not Phillip who was defeated at an equivalent of the Battle of Crocus field decisively, Philip would have been defeated 3 times by the Phocians, and if taken enough...

I have just read my way through essentially a whole page of posts that have little relation to the current point of the question! The last few posts boil down to who knows what and who each person individually views as having more influence over all in history. (and lets please not get...

(not entirely sure why there is a whole long post about that states of Asia at this time suddenly inserted,especially as it doesn't cover all the states that rise in this TL but an ok summary I guess...) I do Like the fact Ephialtes and Percicles are both joint Hegemons at last and in direct...

I know Athens is now supreme, but historically Thebes doesn't like foreign Garrisons, is there a potential for unrest developing or is everyone now too cowed by Sparta's fate? The amount of resources and man power to maintain this year round I can see causing problems with the smaller states...