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There's apparently going to be a Gladiator II movie https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/7647115/gladiator-sequel-russell-crowe-revealed/ set 20-25 years after the original and centered around Commodus nephew Lucius. Now, the original movie made rather enormous changes compared to our...

I've heard said and read both that Barbarossa was a hair-raisinlgy close-run affair and that ultimate German defeat was never in question. So I'd like to hear from this well-read crowd, what would it have taken for a Soviet total defeat/negotiated surrender a la Brest-Litovsk? Suppose that...

What would be the minimum change needed for a CP victory in WW1? My take: The USA staying out of the war, which might come about through Germany going for unrestricted submarine warfare from day 1 (or a few days later, to allow for neutral ships to clear the war zone), so neutral shipping...

Consider the second article of the treaty of the Triple Alliance: http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Triple_Alliance_%28The_English_Tranlation%29 Now, assume that in 1914 Germany had chosen a Russia First strategy and not declared war on France. Instead it would have been France that DW...

Might sound like a simple question, but of course that depends heavily of what sort of conflict WW1 ended up being, and how the CP won it. It's not the same if they win an early knock-out victory against Russia alone in 1914 as if they finally wear down an Entente-sans-USA in 1918. So what are...

I'm toying with the idea of a WW2 that opens with a communist France launching an airborne invasion of the UK in the summer of 1939. Assume that the French achieve strategic surprise - the British didn't see this coming - at all. What would it take (short of ASBs) for a French victory? How...

On August 1st 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered the Chief of Staff of the Imperial Army, General von Moltke, to stand on the defensive in the west and shift the German main effort to the eastern front. von Moltke replied this was a logistical impossiblity, but the chief of the military rail...

The title says it all; what is the latest POD you could imagine that could lead to a World State by 2000 AD. This state can be of any kind, an Empire subjugating all, a Confederation of member states, a unitary or Federal democracy... Fantasize away! EDIT: Posted in the pre 1900 forum...