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after hearing about the most recent and largest zombie-mode map on Call of Duty: Black Ops, i got to thinking that such a scenario (minus the zombies of course :D) would go pretty well in my plausible-implausible ATL. for those who dont know, the map in question is a moon base, presumably from...

suppose that, for whatever reason, there is no concerted effort by the european governments to decolonize their empires in africa and elsewhere following WW2. what would be the effects on the world as a whole, and what would be any new states that form in africa and elsewhere that come from...

as part of the plausible-implausible ATL im working on, france wins the napoleonic wars and occupies the former HRE. like many elements of my ATL, this is of course subject to change since im still working on it, but my question is basically this: what parts of OTL germany and the low countries...

im doing some research for the british empire in my ATL, as well as into symbolism i could include in their alternate flag anyway, my main question is this: what's the best way that the tudor dynasty could be continued following Elizabeth I's death? obviously, she would have to have a child...

i know how everyone here hates straight borders, especially in places where there ARE geographic features which can be used as a basis for those, whereas its the larger, emptier areas where straight (or mostly straight) borders are A-OK. however, just looking at the big world map on my wall...

while going over my timeline, i decided that its probably too ASB for austria to control poland, or at least most of it. there's a few questions i want to ask here: what does everyone think is the best and/or most plausible POD for poland to be a regional power, possibly (but not necessarily)...

its 1918. the Great War has just ended and the Central Powers have lost. while Germany has to give up its empire, Austria isn't as mistreated and instead gets to stay as Austria-Hungary instead of being divided (more than likely ASB, i know, but just roll with me here). what events are likely...

i just heard on Historum that, after the ACW, 10,000 confederates refused to accept returning to the union and instead emigrated to sao paulo, brazil, where their descendants live to this day this is probably ASB, but what's the plausibility of a CSA-like state emerging in brazil from these...

hey, all. ive been thinking about this a bit lately because of a sci-fi book that i plan to write, which takes place about a thousand years from now and takes place in a kind of interstellar economic community of which humans become a part and interact with alien races anyway, to try to come up...

hey, all. one of the things im working towards in my ATL is that Napoleonic France wins the wars against Britain and has de facto control over much of Europe for a time before eventually shrinking down to a slightly beefed-up version of OTL France. anyway, i'm trying to figure out how i can...

what if Black Coyote wasn't deaf, or what if he had understood what the soldiers were trying to tell him? basically, what would have happened to the Lakota from 1890 onwards if the Wounded Knee Massacre had never taken place?

i was at the natural history museum in LA earlier today and a display about recently extinct birds made me wonder: does anyone think that there's any way that some recently extinct animals wouldnt go extinct in a given ATL, even if the animals are only rare in the wild? here's a link to the...

i just thought this would be a useful thread to make. basically, we list and discuss things that could be butterflied in or out of a given timeline--or any timeline, for that matter--without it really affecting that TL. basically, just butterfly effects that one would want to add to their...

i was just writing up rasputin's role in my ATL* and i was wondering what everyone thinks would realistically happen if rasputin really did survive his assassination (my ATL is ASB) *in my ATL, rasputin survives his OTL assassination in 1916 but is killed by lenin's fighters during the october...

i was just reading up on the Pirates of the Caribbean wiki that other actors were considered to play Jack Sparrow before they finally decided on Johnny Depp, among them Jim Carrey, Christopher Walken, and Michael Keaton. i cant help but wonder what the Pirates films would be like if anyone other...

suppose that everything goes right for the Vikings: Harald Hardrada wins the Battle of Stamford Bridge, becoming the King of Norway and England, and subsequently repels the Norman invasion led by William. going on the assumption that the resulting Viking Empire survives to the modern day (even...

hey, all. im looking into what politics could be like in the United States of North America in my ATL. what i think i mainly need to establish is who the different presidents are over the course of the concerning timeline, what the dominant parties are (though i imagine it would still mostly be...

i searched the board for another topic like this but couldnt find one what does everyone think the world would be like if there had been no decolonization? by that i mean that the various european powers never voluntarily decolonize their empires. this does, however, mean that parts of the...

im looking into some new borders for various southeast asian nations in my ATL. i decided to expand the add another country, Laos, into the mix (in the old version, Laos and Vietnam were merged together as "Indochina") aside from that, though, im looking into some plausibility factors...

im reworking my ATL and the map that goes with it. at the moment, ive gotten to russia, which ive already decided has the following divergences from OTL: no WW1 means that discontent over Nick II's marriage to Alix of Hesse due to war with Germany is nonexistent Alex III doesn't die when he...