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  1. WI: France really WAS behind the Mayerling Incident (1889), assassinating the Habsburg Crown Prince Rudolf

    Apparently, in a 1982 interview (which I've seen referenced in different locations, but couldn't find the original of), the former Austrian Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma (who was ~89 years old at the time; she would die 7 years later in 1989), upon returning to Austria shortly after its travel...

  2. WI: Knowledge of Egyptian hieroglyphs preserved

    Suppose, when Justinian sends general Narses to shut down the last Ancient Egyptian temples at the Philae complex and imprison the pagans priests there, he also orders that they be brought to Constantinople, where Roman scholars use them to write down a comprehensive instruction manual of sorts...

  3. WI: No "Byzantine" terminology

    ATL: 16th cent. PoD: Hyeronimus never uses the term "byzantine" to refer to the empire or 17th cent. PoD: there is an alternative work, superior to that of Hyeronimus, written somewhere around this time that does not use the term, and it is that one which is built upon by Louis XIV and his...

  4. AHC/WI: Ottoman Empire rebounds in the 19th Century after alternate Napoleonic Wars

    ITTL, the French and British mutually exhaust themselves after decades of constant clashes, the Habsburg Empire has collapsed, with Vienna razed to the ground by the French and the Hungarians, Bohemians and Croats gaining independence, while further east Poland and (especially) Ukraine are now...

  5. Effects of a majority-Black state in the US south

    WI: The African-American majority in one southern US state, soon after the end of the ACW, actually manages to seize AND KEEP power? They fill the State National Guard with loyal Blacks, create various state-sponsored militias all over the place, design the electoral system to entrench their...

  6. AHC: Crowded Arctic Circle

    Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have as many countries as realistically possible hold land north of the Arctic Circle, preferably with a PoD after Jan. 1, 1900 (though stuff before that would be interesting as well). Previously, Britain and Nazi Germany had also...

  7. 1940: Norway concentrates its navy

    The two coastal defense ships, seven destroyers and seventeen torpedoboats are concentrated into a single task force, based in south-western Norway, after the Altmark incident (so that butterflies are kept to a minimum). They are all kept in close formation, and often change location at night in...

  8. Surviving polytheistic Bosphoran Kingdom?

    Instead of being destroyed by the Goths in the 340s, the Bosphorans manage to maintain a continuity through vassalage, which they continue under the Huns. Just like previously in the 3rd century with the Goths, they continue to provide their overlords with ships with which to plunder and trade...

  9. US landing in Korea in July 1945

    Do not ask the "why". It really, really doesn't matter. The scenario is that shortly before the end of the Battle of Okinawa, the US decides for some reason we need not bother ourselves with, that a landing in southern Korea needs to take place within the next ~3 weeks. Will the Japanese be...

  10. WI: Failed peace negotiations in 1940 prior to the Fall of France

    Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_cabinet_crisis,_May_1940 PoD: After pressure from Halifax and Chamberlain, Churchill authorizes an approach to Italy in conjunction with the French, to see if the former were willing to mediate, despite stating serious misgivings that anything would...

  11. Magnum's naval PoD's. Ep. 7 - Danish navy puts up a fight in 1940

    This one is a really minor one compared to the others, but I guess it can be quite fun. This is the German Kriegsmarine OOB: For our purposes, we're going to be focusing on the first group, centered around the pre-dread Schlweswig-Holstein, and comprising 4 minesweepers (one of which was...

  12. South Vietnamese "Taiwan" in the South China Sea

    Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Sea_Campaign TL/DR: South Vietnam held a bunch of islands, ranging from tiny to small, which the North Vietnamese occupied during the final collapse of the south's army. ITTL, Phu Quoc, Con Dao and the Spratlys are held by the ARVN, perhaps on...

  13. Post-war expansion of a neutral Ottoman Empire after an Entente victory

    For purposes of the discussion, we'll assume the following: 1. Ottomans remain neutral (and are allowed to stay that way, with stuff like Britain not invading Mesopotamia or a parallel Greco-Turkish war erupting) 2. The war drags on for ~4 years, give or take, with everyone exhausted and...

  14. WI: Turkey occupies Aegean Islands in late 1945

    Between the Turkish entry in February and the wars end in early May, there was a narrow window during which the Turks could have managed to get boots on the ground in at least some of the Aegean Islands still occupied by the Germans sinced the botched British attempt to aid the Italian forces...

  15. French Libya

    There is either no 1902 secret treaty between France and Italy regarding Libya, or the French simply ignore it. Either way, France occupies Libya before the Italians do. How does this shake things up?

  16. Alternate 1918 CP strategy

    Going to keep this short, since a restart ate my whole previous thread... The OTL plan of knocking out Russia, transferring west and knocking France out before the Americans arrive did not work (You don't say, Cpt. Obvious...) What this thread is not about is finding a way for getting the above...

  17. American North Sakhalin

    Random idea I had - the US sponsors a White Russian rump state on North Sakhalin, following the collapse of the Whites in Siberia, in exchange for a naval base, as a means of putting pressure on Japan. What kind of geopolitical consequences are we looking at? No Washington Naval Treaty...

  18. 1940: Channel Islands defended

    1. The only other proper thread on this I could find is this one from 8 years ago, and it mainly deals with a PoD that's way before the British bugged out of France. 2. some background before we get started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aerial...

  19. Flawless Ottoman performance, but the Central Powers still lose

    So ITTL, the Ottomans do much, much better than OTL, but the CPs still lose the war by late 1918. How does the peace treaty with the Sublime Porte look like, considering the British & French were willing, by one account I read, to have settled for far less than they got OTL if the Turks pushed...

  20. Magnum's naval PoD's. Ep. 6 - Large mid-war Kriegsmarine fleet-in-being

    A thread title can never do you justice. There was so much more I wanted it to convey, so many different versions of it I considered - "a limited invasion of Norway", "a more cautious Kriegsmarine" etc. In any case, whilst I waste my time away in the queue at the car wash, here's the basic gist...
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