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I'll quote Livy, as he was in no doubt with what Hannibal should've done: "Meanwhile, the victorious Hannibal was surrounded by his officers, offering their congratulations and urging him to take some rest during the remainder of the day and hte ensuing night, and to allow his tired troops to...

Basically, I want to know your opinions on what could've happened had Constantine the Great lived long enough to go on his 'crusade' into Sassanid Persia (we assume he lives long enough to see the entire campaign... but also assuming it won't take any longer then ten or so years), complete with...

*Note: A mandatory (for me) pre-timeline explanation from me. Feel free to read or skip at your leisure. Some of you may be confused to hear that this is actually a Pyrrhus timeline - the title may imply a POD of an event over a hundred years previous to the one used here. Perhaps it's a...

Admittedly stolen from from other threads... The object is to rank generals similarly to the aforementioned threads, but this time only for generals that lived before the common era. I'd rank as follows: Gold - Alexander the Great Silver - Hannibal Barca Bronze - Phillip II of Macedonia...

OK, ok, there might not be a huge reason why I'm creating a new thread for an edited version of what had been a fairly short timeline - but there were some stuffs that bugged me with the old one. Most of that is that I didn't feel like I got some smaller stuff historically right, and parts where...

(Note: This is disclaimer/introductory/what I used to write it kind of thing at the beginning. Feel free to skip straight ahead to the beginning.) Here we go again… I decided to write this towards the end of June or so after reading Adrian Goldsworthy’s The Fall of Carthage, and I was...

Napoleon was offered an army to invade Britain in 1798, which he obviously refused in favor of his Egyptian campaign. But say he accepted. Would Napoleon even land? How would he do in Britain? What might this mean with a complete British defeat so early?

Question is the title. I remembered I wanted to ask this question at some point while reading the Hannibal thread.

What if Carthage pressed her naval superiority in the First Punic War after the Battle of Drepana in 249 BC?

After an assassin bombed the Czar's carriage, Alexander got out completely unharmed to attend to a wounded Cossack Escort, and was promptly bombed by another assassin. So, what if Alexander had decided to stay in the carriage, to protect him in case of another bomb? One of his last ideas was to...

What is the best way that Prussia could be "wanked" to near-ASB proportions?

I apologize in advance for the use of bad English in the title, I couldn't think of the best way to word it. :o The Tunguska Event, as I'm sure most of you know, was a meteor or comet that burst in the air in Siberia, on June 30, 1908. But what if that meteor/comet had instead blew up over a...

In the spirit of my recent Alternate Names for Modern Countries thread, I decided to make this thread. Please give me an alternate name for any modern city. For a rather basic example, New York could be New Amsterdam. Others?

Quote from Wikipedia_Page_on_Saladin What if they succeeded in assassinating Saladin?

Inspired by a game of Empire: Total War, in which I was the French. :rolleyes: Please explain how this map could occur. The year is 1830. If you're wondering as to which color represents which faction, just ask.

What would be the consequences if the Ionian Revolt did not happen?

What if the Cilician Pirates whom Spartacus had paid to take him to Sicily hadn't bailed on him, and took him to Sicily?

I don't know if a thread is like this out there, so sorry if there is. (in before 1900 because most of the POD's would be before 1900) The title is fairly self-explanatory, please give a new name for a modern country. Don't feel like you can't use a country because someone else already made a...

What if Marcus Licinius Crassus invaded Parthia through Armenia? The Armenian King, Artavazd II, offered Crassus 50,000 extra troops if he invaded this way, but instead Crassus invaded by the Euphrates, which I'm sure you all know ended pretty bad. So, if Crassus does invade via Armenia, does...

A fun title, non? :) half posted because of the title :rolleyes: Anyways, please discuss how to make the ultimate French wank, and if possible, without using Louis XIV or Napoleon.