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  1. Map Challenge

    Hey, I've grown tired thinking of unique names for Map Challenges. I've read a timeline, and here is the map for it. I'll give you the address if you can't guess. Quite intriguing, however. Both the Germans AND the Russians are better off? This is somewhen in the 1950s, mind you.
  2. A Jewel in Whose Crown?

    Has anyone ever read this awesome ATL? The deal is, that the Germans were able to get a shipment of weapons over to the Indian nationalists, who were ready to begin a revolution, in 1915. The British can do little to stop them, in the middle of a deadly war to save France. The Indian...
  3. Polish-Czechoslovakian Union after WWII

    Can anyone get more information about this proposal. The two governments-in-exile were seriously considering such and idea after the war, but the Czechs hesitated. If the plan went into action, you could find an Eastern European state the size of France rubbing shoulder with Russia and...
  4. Miracles on the Eastern Front v2.0; a Great War ATL

    Miracles on the Eastern Front (v2.0) Prologue : A Point of Divergence The Germans were launching a huge offensive on Verdun. France called upon all of the Allies in hopes of relieving pressure on their front. Russia had already attempted to initiate the disastrous Lake Naroch Offensive in...
  5. Miracles on the Eastern Front; A Great War ATL

    The third thread, I hope you don't mind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brusilov_Offensive Prologue :: Brusilov achieves perfection! Verdun was under attack. France had called to Russia to help relieve pressure on Verdun in early 1916, by launching an offensive against the Germans. The...
  6. Brussilov gets his way!

    Aleksei Alekseevich Brusilov was a Russian cavalry general most noted for the development of a military offensive tactic used in the Brusilov offensive of 1916. However, he was opposed in many ways by the Russian high command, who saw his tactics as far too risky. In this ATL, Aleksei's...
  7. A few lucky breaks for the Soviets

    Lucky Break #1 :: Brusilov gets his way The "Great Retreat" of the Russian Empire from Germany's borders is over. However, in the summer of 1916, the Brusilov offensive in eastern Galicia against the Austrians begins. On June 5th, the Russians opened the offensive with a massive, accurate...
  8. Romans invent the repeating crossbow?

    Or any crossbow for that matter. What happens when this awesome weapon comes into Roman hands? Say... 200 AD. Do they rule the world?
  9. Hitler dies in his sleep before the invasion of Russia

    What if Adolf Hitler dies in his sleep the night of June 6, 1941? Would Operation Barbarossa still recieve of 'go' in the aftermath of the power vacuum? Who takes his place? I read once in a book that if someone had assassinated Adolf Hitler before he invaded Russia, then all of Europe...
  10. How COOL can you make the PARIS UNDERGROUND become?

    The City of Lights sits atop the world's largest maze -- home to mysterious vagabonds, renegade artists, and entire chambers filled with human bones. The Paris Underground, often referred to as 'the catacombs', has been luring curious visitors for centuries. It is cited as one of the world...
  11. DBWI: The Soviets steal the secrets of nuclear weapons from the United States

    The Soviet nuclear program had to go on scratch, and had very few able scientists to head its research. But what if we can start the Cold War earlier, and the presumed Soviet covert ops had stolen secrets of the Manhatten Project, and been able to develop nuclear weapons for themselves very...
  12. A True Man's World

    What if we really lived in a Man's World, and women didn't dominate the Earth? Now, this will probably get controversial, and subject to debate... but I just have a burning idea in my head. In Health class today, we spent two hours learning how women were superior to men, physiologically and...
  13. 1916 - 1952; The War to End All Wars

    As much as I want this to look cool at the beginning, its going to have to slide as I don't have all my stuff together. Just wanted to get this out there before I called it a night, and see what you guys thought about it. The Point of Divergence will be sometime between the middle and end of...
  14. Larger Indonesia

    How could we get a present-day Indonesia incorporating Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands? Bonus points if you can incorporate any of the following: South Vietnam, Hainan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, or Sri Lanka.
  15. Without an Eclipse: Higher goes the Rising Sun

    This is the alternate timeline that Birdie and I are working on, the POD being that Japan never stalls with its economical crashes in the early 1990s. Its economy continues progressing at a rate comparable to the 1970s and the 1980s. This leads to, of many things, technological advancements, a...
  16. English-Speaking France, ala Pink Panther?

    How did that happen? The French all speak English, only with French accents. And, they have something of modern civilization!? What POD caused that. BTW, incredibly horrible movie.
  17. British Revolution

    I assume this has been done before... but I didn't get good search results... so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Street_Conspiracy What if it was put in to action, somewhat successfully or entirely successfully?
  18. Worse Soviet Collapse

    A majority... no, in fact ALL of the autonomous socialist soviet republics ASSRS declare independence along with the independent SSRs with the fall of the Soviet Union, sometime between 1985 and 2005, with a POD after 1975. So, now we have a moderately large Western Russia, with areas in the...
  19. An electromagnetic storm

    This may be ASB, but I am not so sure... What if an magnetic storm the size of Jupiter began traveling towards the sun? We detect it some time in the near past, scientists are buzzing about what will happen when it reaches the Earth's orbit... and then it happens, today. The magnetic storm...
  20. A later, crazier, much more devestating 9/11

    Its been discussed before, I know... but here is the particular situation. In the Japan's economy keeps growing thread, I am brainstorming on an alternate 9/11. Japan is bigger, stronger, and has a lot of huge buildings just developed. Furthermore, the Persian Gulf War had a much more serious...
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