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  1. The Diamond Map Thread

    Closeup up on that "Saracens" scenario
  2. The Diamond Map Thread

    Legacy of medieval zombies
  3. SlyDessertFox

    If Rome got rid of slavery would it have advanced more?

    A wealthy Roman might have owned a few hundred slaves. Certainly not thousands. The slave population in the empire around the 2nd-3rd centuries AD is estimated at around 10-20% (around 5 million slaves). The 30-40% figure comes from their share of the population of Italy during the late...
  4. An Alternate History of the Republic of Nauru
    Threadmarks: Chapter 2: Laying the Foundations | The Budget Speech for 1969

    PART I The Buildup (1968-75) Chapter 2 Laying the Foundations As the euphoria at independence died down, President Hammer DeRoburt was looking to the future. His first public speech since the purely ceremonial one at independence was made at the first meeting of the Parliament on May 17, 1968...
  5. The Diamond Map Thread

    Diamond: Originally Posted by Hermanubis hey, is the Michigan/Wisconsin/Illinois/Ohio region unclaimed, or what? No, it's an indigenous kingdom. In this TL, Chinese traders brought Eurasian plagues to the Americas in the 1300s, allowing the natives time to build up some resistance before...
  6. The Diamond Map Thread

    Diamond: I've been working over the last couple of days on a short story set in a world where communism is the dominant political creed. All I really have worked out for background so far is that Eugene Debs led a strong socialist movement before and during WWI (lifting a page from Newman &...
  7. The Diamond Map Thread

    Diamond: An attempt at this. This is a world resulting from a more successful Mongol conquest in Europe. Many Europeans flee to the Crusader States, giving them the boost they need to hold on and expand into Egypt. (Yes, I know I've used that trope before, but I like it. ) The Mongols do not...
  8. WI: Petain Joined The Resistance With De Gaulle?

    If the French government retreats to North Africa, the entire North African Campaign is over in early 1941.
  9. SlyDessertFox

    Publius Crassus (son of the triumvir) Doesn't Die at Carrhae-Who does Pompey Marry?

    This is a pretty niche question I guess. Publius Crassus, the son of the triumvir, was married to a young Cornelia Metella, the daughter of Metellus Scipio in either 54 or 55 BCE. He of course died at Carrhae in 53 BCE, making Cornelia a widow and opening up the opportunity to marry her to the...
  10. The Footprint of Mussolini - TL

    Italian fascists wouldn't ever accept someone ethnically non-Italian being duce.
  11. The Diamond Map Thread

    Eastern Islam. Diamond: I'm not too sure of all the details just yet, but the main POD is the Arab victory over Byzantium in the 7th century. After that, the muslims turn their focus towards the east, however. By 1000, most of Asia is Islamic, and the religion has begun to make inroads into...
  12. S. Marlowski

    Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    The middle one is a 14TP and the bottom one was the Skoda T-21
  13. GauchoBadger

    Vietnam, a unwinnable war?

    I decline to comment further in the face of utter disregard of extra-military factors. Odds were stacked extremely against US success. There was opposition to the war on the domestic, political, and international front, the geography and terrain were unfavorable, the allies they had were very...
  14. AHC: Wank the McDonnell F-4 Phantom II

    That's not easy to do with an aircraft design unless its being continually produced ala the C-130 or 737 and even then the earlier variants won't have said upgrades
  15. Vietnam, a unwinnable war?

    Strategic Hamlets failed in South Vietnam because it failed to take into account the ties the peasants had to their land. It failed because the peasants didn't want to reliquish their claims to that land. Anything that failed to recognise the fundamental differences between Vietnam and Malay...
  16. Vietnam, a unwinnable war?

    Did Robert McNamara find an AH.com account?
  17. Warships that survived World War Two and should have been museums!

    And saving either KGV or Duke of York should have been possible as well if the public had bothered to care.
  18. What would the Americas be like if the Chinese colonized it?

    Yeah, I was unsure about posting that. I wrote the sentence with Kansas in mind (particularly the "any influence whatsoever" part), then added Idaho as an afterthought. With Idaho I was thinking in terms of direct influence, not whether there would be any knock-off effects at all.
  19. Plausibility checks: Habsburg exchanges during the Napoleonic period

    Let's imagine a timeline where Joseph II's dinner date goes a bit better with the Saxon princess Maria Kunigunde (perhaps she has a few extra glasses of wine!) and they wed, as was the plan following Isabella of Parma's death. The result of which is the birth of a son, let's call him Joseph III...
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