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  1. Would this lead to a Napoleonic Victory?

    I voted Perhaps, on the understanding that the likelihood of Napoleon pulling something stupid is pretty strong - Russia being the obvious one. That said though if the assumption is Napoleon compels a marriage instead of an abdication at Aranjuez it's not a given this will prevent a Spanish...

  2. AH Challenge: Have a northern secession from the USA, with a PoD of 1820 or later

    The British? I suspect in this scenario much more - if not all - of the Oregon Country ends up in Canada (assuming Canada forms and alt-British Columbia doesn't become a separate dominion, which it might with a lesser threat posed by the USA's successor states). It would also be interesting to...

  3. How would the war have ended if Goering became fuhrer in early 1941 and there’s no German-Soviet War?

    There was the Milch affair - when the Gestapo came for Goering's deputy on the grounds that he was Jewish Goering fought them off, got Milch's ancestry aryanised (his father was Jewish and Milch's mother was persuaded to say Milch was the result of an affair with somebody suitably aryan) and...

  4. Best monarch or head of state to kill off early for a more prosperous future

    There are at least three reasons why the late queen was never going to abdicate. Firstly she made a vow to her people to serve them for the rest of her life and whereas we may choose not to take such promises too seriously there is every indication she did. Secondly, she remembers the abdication...

  5. WI: The US collapses shortly after it's independence.

    This makes a lot of sense, but you're ignoring the whale in the room. If the USA isn't a thing and Spain is collapsing with the Napoleonic Wars going more or less as OTL then presumably some form of the treaties of San Ildefonso and Aranjuez still occur and Louisiana goes to France. Without a...

  6. It's A Long Way To Nagasaki: The Anglo-Japanese War

    One disturbing side effect of this twist is that it's going to be a lot more acceptable in this timeline to view Adolf Hitler as a flawed hero than it is in our timeline where he is straightforwardly a genocidal monster. Yes, Kristallnacht and the various antisemitic decrees have already...

  7. It's A Long Way To Nagasaki: The Anglo-Japanese War

    If the assets set aside to upgrade the defences had not been diverted to the Soviet Union after Barbarossa they might have done.

  8. Political map of Europe, sans Napoleon.

    By 1795 the Dutch had more or less reached the Fish River, not quite halfway to Durban, the site of the first British settlement in Natal. If the British decide they need a footprint in South Africa I think it's likely they can get there before the Dutch or the Portuguese, not least because...

  9. Political map of Europe, sans Napoleon.

    The big one here is probably South Africa - without a revolutionary/Napoleonic war the British will have to come up with another excuse to grab South Africa from the Dutch and may well never get round to it. It is very likely the British will still settle what became Natal - a presence at the...

  10. 沒有國民黨就沒有中國, Without the Kuomintang there would be no China, A Republic of China Story

    I don't know what China's relations with Israel are like here, but the timeline works well for them working together to build nukes...

  11. It's A Long Way To Nagasaki: The Anglo-Japanese War

    This is...

  12. Token British Vietnam contribution?

    And won, it should be noted. Arguably the only way outsiders are ever likely to win in Vietnam - define your victory conditions first, achieve them, then get out. A conditional win perhaps, but still a win. That said, I believe it's pretty widely accepted by now that some British troops did end...

  13. WI: Joseph Stalin commits suicide in 1941

    This. Throw in an operation where some poor schmucks - sorry, crack Abwehr agents - are caught and shot "resisting arrest" near a neutral border to bring the story to a close and that'll be it. It'll probably even be widely believed, at least for a while.

  14. AHC: A Sixth Anglophone Nation

    This, pretty much. British Columbia and Western Australia in particular would be strong candidates I would have thought. Except that in such circumstances Cymru Newydd is unlikely to be anglophone. If it's colonised in the 19th century or earlier the 200,000 (and their descendants) are likely...

  15. It's A Long Way To Nagasaki: The Anglo-Japanese War

    I thought the title was a reference to "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" which was a popular British marching song of WW1, not a clue that Nagasaki would play a particular role in the end of the story. But yes, even if it is just a WW1 analogy it does look like it's a clue that the war is going to...

  16. Can you think of any way where the CSA and Britain go to war and the CSA doesn’t win, but survives the encounter like the USA did in the War of 1812?

    The Union's opinion would be critical. If they stay out of it the Confederacy survives as an independent state - Britain will have no interest in annexing it, though may dictate emancipation at bayonet point. Whatever passes for a navy or merchant marine in the Confederacy last six months or so...

  17. The Revenge of the Crown : An Alternate 1812 and Beyond.

    "One of the few"? OTL Perceval is famous for being the only Prime Minister to be assassinated - is British politics going to take a violent turn down the line? Incidentally, OTL the ink was barely dry on the Great Reform Act before the Abolition of Slavery Act was pushed through parliament -...

  18. The Revenge of the Crown : An Alternate 1812 and Beyond.

    If Britain wanted California badly enough to go to war with Mexico over it they wouldn't try to take it by sailing an army and a fleet all the way across the Pacific - they'd take it by seizing Veracruz and threatening Mexico City and forcing the Mexicans to hand over California in the peace...

  19. The Revenge of the Crown : An Alternate 1812 and Beyond.

    The Fleur de Lys on a white background that's the main part of the flag is basically taken from the flag of pre-revolutionary France. If that isn't meant as a tacit bid for Bourbon sympathy it's still very likely to be taken as such in France.

  20. The Revenge of the Crown : An Alternate 1812 and Beyond.

    It probably won't all go to the British - it's likely you might get one or more Mishigama-style native states in the area, A Lakotah homeland in what is now the Dakotas for example. Oh, and Joseph Smith was born 7 years before the POD. It'd be interesting to see what alt-Mormonism looks like in...
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