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As a sideshow in my Baltic Empire TL I've puzzled with a Royal Hansa Jagtkreutser design (Literally: "Hunting cruiser" like in Jagdpanzer - the homemade spelling is the 20th century Hansa semi Platdeutsch language). The Royal Hansa includes the Baltic coastlines, Scandinavia, N.Germany...

Any ideas what have happened here? Regards Redbeard

PoD: It is November 1940 and the USN Staff is reading the reports on the British attack on Taranto. One admiral asks: "Could this be done to us, say at Pearl Habor?". Another admiral says: "I'm sure it could, but can we do it to the Japanese? We know thay have bad intentions indeed, and why...

PoD: The German invasion of Crete fails in May 1941, and rows of exhausted German parachute soldiers guarded by smiling CW soldiers in spotless uniforms are paraded in front of news reel cameras. What difference will it make? Regards Steffen Redbeard

Inspired by the thread/threat about Canada as member of EU I put this challenge: Come up with a TL where at least one of the Scandinavian and possibly other European countries are states in USA (or whatever it may call itself thereafter) before year 2006. Regards Steffen Redbeard and -neck

In 1812 Napoleon gathered the biggest army yet seen to invade Russia, and counted on decisively beating the Russian main army and in that way end the campaign. As we know, he advanced and won a lot of battles, but never in the decisive matter he liked, and which according to many theorists...

It is June 1940, the French-Italian border. The air is thick with anxiety and tension as reports of the crumbling French front against the Germans are running in. Everybody expect the Italians to throw themselves upon the French to get a share of the loot - but nothing happens. Well France...

In May 1941 the Germans after conquering Greece and Yugoslavia launched an airborne assault on Crete. After some very tough fighting the Germans succeeded in defeating the Greek and British defenders, but the airborne troops never really regained their breath. Now what if the assault fails...

ATL: June 1944 D-day goes terribly wrong as the meterologists get some calculations/guessing wrong and the invasion is launched right into a violent storm that takes out large parts of the landing fleet and prohibits air support. And what reaches the beach is run over by the panzer...

This one is often discussed in my home country, now I’ll try it here: In the OTL early 1930’s Denmark practically disarmed, but in this PoD they/we don’t. Instead the armed forces are kept at the size it was during WWI, but with a great modernisation programme based mainly on foreign...

The Habsburg Empire was dismembered after WWI, but WI it had continued in some form - could be a republic covering roughly the same area - Austria, Czechoslovakia, S. Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Transsylvania. Let us also say that this republic undergoes a parallel development...

Napoleon went into Russia in 1812 to bring the Russians back to submission by crushing their Army. In OTL he didn't achieve that, but WI he actually manages to hold the Russian Army and crush it - a really decisive victory. The obvious opportunity would be Borodino, but how different a TL will...

An Anglo-French victory in 1940 or 41 is a popular WI, and IMO not that unlikely. We usually discuss the more or less obvious consequences in Europe, but what happen in Asia? The Japanese are still the parias of international socitety due to their campaign in China and have the same basic...

In OTL the Italians suffered a big defeat at Capporetto/Karfreit in autumn of 1917 at the hand of the Austro-Hungarians with German assistance. The defeat can best be described as a collapse of the front, but by hairsbreadth Italy was saved from total collapse as a new defensive line was...

As the first USAAF bombers drop their cargo over Germany in 1942 the Führer rages: "Revenge!!!" he shouts and bites big chunks of the carpet and then Görings ear. Göring sees that he has to do something really fast, and promises that inside six weeks bombs will fall on New York. Hitler calms...

What if – after the successful rebellion in the seven provinces in 1558 against Spanish rule the Dutch don’t stop, but in the next 50 years through a combination of lucky wars, convenient alliances and the shining image of good economy by 1608 control what is present day Netherlands, Belgium...

It's May 1940 and Netherlands are run over by the German Wehrmacht. Shortly afterwards a Japanese fleet shows up at Dutch East Indies and says: "Don't you guys need some protection?! And don't worry about paying in cash, we'll just need some oil". Next the same procedure is taken towards French...

In 1935 Italy invaded Abyssinia and UK seriously considdered declaring war to Italy, but found herself very unprepared for war. Although the Royal Navy was much bigger than the Italian Navy, it for instance didn't have 15" shells in stock apart from those onboard the battleships, the Italian...

I will try to make a series of alternate histories that all have their offspring in one PoD: The long knife breaks before sunset – i.e. Röhm and his 4,5 million men SA are one step ahead of Hitler and on say 7th of May 1934 (Hitler’s OTL coup against Röhm was in June) core units of the...

Inspired from the thread about Percival I will try this ATL: WI Alanbrooke had been appointed Chief of Imperial General Staff one year before his OTL appointment in December 1941? Before that Alanbrooke (in OTL) had commanded an Armycorps in France 1940 and skillfully conducted a figthing...