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Say that Germany decides that a heavily armed coastal defence ship with heavy armour, decent speed and low range is to prefer instead of the OTL Deutschland class pocket battleships. Nominally they need to keep within the 10 000 ton limit of the Versailles traty, but you can cheat and make it up...

Say for example that Germany had plenty of money, but were not allowed to build replacements for the Deutschland class pre-dreadnoughts (Schlesien and Schleswig-Holstein) and wished to make them as competent ships as ever possible for battle. OTL, they had most of their casemate guns removed...

I am working on a general timeline, where I want the US Civil War to be longer and a bit more grusome, which means the Confederady needs to do better. They won't win, but fight longer and better. My first point would be that due to an British capture of New Orleans 1812 (which is returned since...

Say that Leningrad falls due to incompetence, panic or simply German luck sometime in October 1941. The Germans and Finns have now freed a lot of troops for other fronts. I doubt the Finns will sever the Murmansk railroad as they seemed unwilling to do so, but what can the Germans accomplish...

If there had been no attempts at keeping cotton from the European mills, instead a rush to export and gain hard currency before the blockade got effective, combined with the Mosquito fleet working better with Fort Jackson and Fort St Phillip, meaning Farragut does not capture New Orleans, how...

As part of a timeline I am working on, the US loses the War of 1812 and has to cede territory to a Native American state that is a de facto British protectorate. How would such a state look? What would its survival chances be? Economical development? Suppose the US gets Destroit and the...

This is not a timeline, nor a question, just some information for those that seem to lump Sweden into the axis camp in their TLs. The great depression hit Sweden pretty badly, but not as bad as many other nations. The social democrats and the agrarians formed an alliance 1933 and initiated...

If the Washington treaty allowed the sale of old ships to allied, minor and neutral nations, who would have bought? A small dreadnought for Sweden? Dreadnoughts and/or battlecruisers for Turkey? A dreadnought or a pair for Canada and Australia? Dreadnoughts for Greece? Yugoslavia allowed...

I am considering writing a time-line where the Germans, smarting from the Italian opposition to Anschluss of Austria 1934 sends a sizable mission to Ethiopia early 1935, headed by von Lettow-Vorbeck. IOTL, they did sell thousands (probably 8000) of Mauser rifles, millions of rifle rounds, some...

"My Lord Prince." the one who spoke was a smart young officer in a well-tailored tan uniform, easily distinguishable among the mostly black suites on the floor outside the Senate Chambers. The Senate was in session, but had taken a break for refreshments when the young officer found his...

Sweden, Finland and Russia, with borders and places of importance. 1808-02-21 Prodded by Napoleon, Czar Alexander I of Russia invades the Swedish province of Finland with 24 000 men in 3 divisions under command of Lieutenant General Fredrik Vilhelm von Buxhoevden. There has been no...

Let us say, that for some reason Sweden manages to win the Battle of Poltava 1709, Peter is captured, humiliated and forced to sign a pleace, perhaps giving Kola and Far Karelia to Sweden as well as to return all captured forts and provinces. This leaves Sweden as having defeated all members...

So, say that the most competent German commandes had been given free hands just before the allied landings in Normandy and Operation Bagration. Probably ASB, but say that Hitler is uncapacitated by a stroke induced by his heavy drug use and a troika mostly of army men take over. How long can...

After the tactical victory at Düna 1701, Sweden seemed rather safe. The Danes had been forced out of the war by a landijng near Copenhagen, the Russian army had been crushed at Narva and the Saxonian-Polish army had been driven away from Livonia and Riga at Düna. Karl XII, opting to destroy...

It might be slightly ASBish, but what if; 1. Nicopolis 1396 is a victory for the Crusaders, perhaps reversing much of the Ottoman gains after Kosovo 1389, inciting the Bulgarians, Wallachs and Serbs to revolt. 2. Timur Lenk (Tamerlane) wins as historically 1402. 3. The Byzantines go on...

"They say that we are entering an age of nations consumed by ideas. I am afraid that my poor Greece is a nation already devoured, bones broken and marrow sucked out." Leonides Toarias, Chancellor of the Greek Empire, 12th of October 1935. I. Introduction II. Prologue IIa. Greek politics and...

This is a timeline in which many of the things that could have gone bad in Weserübung do go bad, and in wich the Norweigans have more luck and a bit more foresight. It also features Sweden being much more interventionist, for reasons that will be explained. The Altmark boarding had gone very...

Gustav II Adolf toyed with the idea of declaring himself protestant Emperor. What if he had lived, seen a good victory at Lützen, had an heir and declared himself Emperor? Sweden is too poor and desolate to keep such a title for too long, it will pass to the Prussian King sooner or later...

In 1905, the revolting battleship/pre-dreadnought battlecruiser Potemkin mutined and sailed to Romania. The Romanian government returned the ship to Russia. Potemkin also inspired the similar battleship Georgiy Pobedonosets to revolt, she later surrendered to the authorities. What if both...

Here's an idea for a timeline I have. What if Nikolai I had not died and continued to oppose peace and Sweden and Austria had entered the war? The French wanted to re-establish a Polish state out of Russia, Sweden wants Åland and perhaps also Finland, the Brits want the Russians out of...