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  1. Challenge: More unified Central Europe after Napoleon.

    Ok, so I am helping a friend with an alternate historical fictional environment for his novel (the Swedish meaning of the word, that is a short story). His story will be a relation of another famous work, but set in an earlier time. What exactly is a secret, but I found the idea very...
  2. Technocracy in Weimar Germany

    So, I was looking around the net for interesting possible alternate forms of government, and came upon this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement (Be aware that the Wikipedia article in this case has quite a bit of unfounded statements due to an edit war, but the general idea...
  3. Challenge: Let's plan a Coup!

    In 1944, the coup attempt yet to come the closest to success against Hitler, failed. Now, your mission is to plan, in detail if possible, a coup sometime between barbarossa and the end of the war, leading to the dismissal of the Nazi government. To your help you have all the original...
  4. Industrial revolution in Song China

    Recently, there was a thread about a potential Roman steam engine (invented by Heron unless I've messed up names again ^_^), and it was more or less concluded that even if it became mainstream knowledge, it would not really have sparked any form of industrial revolution, due to the reality of...
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