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Ah, but this is Late Antiquity Rome Important distinction :p

I'm trying to figure out some implications from a counterfactual I've been thinking about. In July 1866, the Prussian army decisively defeated the Austrians (and Saxons) at Königgrätz in Bohemia, sealing the Austro-Prussian War and making a Prussian led Germany all but a certainty. But you...

I'm really not seeing cause and effect here.

I think how Britain received Taiwan in 1841 is more important than the actual cessation of the island. If you have a more traumatic opium war, maybe broadened out of South China, then the Chinese state might be more shaky when confronted with further problems in the 19th century. Really hard...

PoD as significant as British Taiwan in 1841 is going butterfly away a lot of 19th century events, let alone something a full century into the future.

What was the Qing view on Taiwan during the period? Integral part of China? I wonder how developed Chinese nationalism wouldve been at this point (not much is my guess) and how hard it would be to wrest the whole island from the Qing

After reading Battle of the Atlantic, I'm inclined to agree if the PoD is post-1939. However, if you make the Admiralty stop taking lead paint in their tea (to use a colourful and oft used Sealion rebuttal) in recognising the true threat of the U-boats in the interwar, I think you can get some...

So you're effectively looking to not have a major power based between the Indus and Mediterranean if I'm understanding you correctly?

But how would you keep contact between the Polynesians and the Malays?

I think the problem is feasibility. The centripetal forces of the era and region are going to be quite hard to overcome, the Iranian plateau is a pretty natural seat for an empire. I don't see a path that doesn't result in one of the Parthian satraps taking up the mantle, or maybe for an...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Sino-Japanese_War The results section of the summary is most pertinent. China had more of a revanchist bone to pick with Japan over Taiwan, Port Arthur and control of Korea. The Europeans help a handful of treaty ports.

Being a bit deterministic, aren't we?

Fascists arent generally inclined to ally with other fascists out of any sense of ideological solidarity. If two neighbouring fascist countries are rivals, and one has humiliated the other multiple times in the span of 40 years, they're not going to get along. Japan was occupying Chinese...

Even if you remove considerations like food or raw materials, eventually you'll run out of warm bodies to be put in uniform and handed a rifle.

Short yet bloody. Does this mean you think Germany would prevail quickly?

Have to disagree with that point. The Allies didn't want France at the big boys table at all, but Talleyrand was able to scheme his way to a seat from a very poor starting position. If you are correct, it would mean France was granted a prominent place from the outset, which it most certainly...

Bumping What would the actual war looked like if it was just Germany vs. Czechs, with the French and British washing their hands. I'm inclined to think that there would certainly be a military coup should the French and British make clear theyll fight for Czechoslovakia at Munich. What...

It would certainly affect how much becomes part of Canada if the Americans are lacking a legal claim to it all.

Even in the face of British opposition? In this scenario, it seems like Britain would be unburdened of the Napoleonic wars if it were to face down the Americans in something like 1812. And given the outcome of that conflict, I don't think it augurs well for American chances of defeating Britain.

Never could get it to run properly on my computer... Anyways, I think that's enough HoI talk, don't want to derail the thread