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  1. Consequences of a Second Major Bombing in 1995 by Domestic Terrorists?

    Going over one of the novel outlines on my hard drive my day off and I was wondering about one of the consequences of an event featured as I was working on a sequel outline Sometime in the late morning, late May/June/July 1995 a tractor trailer illegally parked by a hotel on the outskirts of...

  2. Ghastly Victories: The United States in the World Wars
    Threadmarks: Part 1-1, Popular History, New Unofficial History, Revisionist Viewpoints, Assassinations, European Wars

    Ghastly Victories: The United States in the World Wars A TL by RamscoopRaider Part I: The Great War …Muhamed Mehmedbašić, perhaps the most infamous name in modern history. The one man who more than anything ended the golden age of the Long Nineteenth Century and brought on the horrors of...

  3. 21 Knot BB Alternative to Admirals

    In 1916 when asked for his opinion on future construction Admiral John Jellicoe in command of the Grand Fleet commented that in light of his experience a new capital ship design should be a 21 knot battleship or a 30 knot battlecruiser preferably the latter. In OTL with excessive rumors about...

  4. 1812 Peace Concessions Plausibility Check?

    Assuming there is a situation where due to butterflies dating back to the 1780's the US is able to perform much better. It's summer of 1814 and the US has held Upper Canada and half of Lower Canada for about a year. An attempt by the British to attack Washington/Baltimore has just barely failed...

  5. Float Planes for COIN?

    I was thinking. Say you are a country with an insurgent problem. The insurgency is in an area with a lot of good sized lakes or rivers, but few good places to put even small airfields. Would Float Planes be somewhat useful in this enviornment? Would it be easier to convert an existing float...

  6. Louis XVI makes it to Montmedy, what then?

    Assume through better planning, luck and a series of improbable coincidences, Louis XVI succeeds in his 1791 escape from Paris to Montmedy, what does he do then and what happens?

  7. How much of a game changer are explosive shells?

    Say you have a naval war circa the early 19th century Both sides have wooden ships, but one side has explosive shells How much of an advantage does this give them effectively? Enough to say allow a frigate to reliably beat a ship of the line? Edit: Assume flat trajectory shell guns with...

  8. Earliest Possible Sythesis of LSD?

    What is the Earliest possible date that LSD can be discovered and synthesized with a post 1900 divergence point?

  9. A War of French Succession

    How would one go about creating a war of French Succession with a post 1774 divergence point? The war should take place in the 1810's or early 1820's and must involve the UK Preconditions include no Napoleon and a Bourbon restoration in the 1800's

  10. A Bust for the Kaiser

    My history professor told me an interesting story today. Apparently around the turn of the Century when Germany was interested in Latin America the Kaiser gave TR some awards and honors to flatter him and make him more accommodating. Now this did not work, but someone suggested that TR return...

  11. AHC UK vs France and Russia

    Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is with a post Jan 1 1816 divergence point, get the UK on the opposing side of a war against France and Russia in the 19th Century Bonus points if India revolts as well or the US decides to steal Canada while the UK is distracted

  12. WI: RMS Lusitania Explodes in Port

    From what I can recall on her last voyage the Lusitania carried some war materials aboard her. The officially listed ones were nonexplosive however. Let us assume she contains war materials that are not officially listed, namely high explosives. She most likely did not OTL but let us say that...

  13. AHC Modern Monitor

    Your challenge, should you chose to accept it is to have with a Post 1950 Divergence point have multiple navies have a class of Monitors in service built post 1950 with a gun caliber of at least 203mm for shore bombardment in service in 2000 I figure this is easier and more cost effective than...

  14. DBWI: No Large Scale Chemical Warfare Post WWI

    Is there any way we can avoid the large scale use of chemical warfare after the First World War? Particularly in the Anti City Strategic Bombing Role? Mihnor Colonial conflicts are allowed, near ASB to keep it from being used there

  15. Naval Building Patterns Without WWI?

    Working on a TL, want to know what the naval building patterns for the USA, UK and Japan would be like Absent WWI. The US and UK-Japan are in a period of high tensions FWI As in engaged in a naval arms race, the Anglo German one died down in 1912 here Want to know what ships get built, what...

  16. Purposeful Indian Balkanization

    I know this is pretty ASB but what would India need to do to piss of the UK enough so that when India is granted independence it will be in the form of many independent states pretty much tailor made for ethnic and religious strife?

  17. General Winter Promoted 1812

    In the Spirit of my other thread about the Demotion of Marshal Winter, what happens if Napoleon gets a winter as bad as 1941-1942, that starts as early, how soon does he turn back, how much does he have left, does he die of frostbite?

  18. 1941-42 Marshal Winter Demoted

    Assume that the Winter of 1941-1942 is of an average sort and duration instead of much colder and longer than usual. How does this effect WWII? If this needs to be moved tell me

  19. How to Increase US Cold War Paranoia

    I am doing the preliminary Spadework for a timeline. The goal of this time line is for a USA very Paranoid about a Red Dawn Scenario. I would like suggestions on these topics. Increasing US Paranoia Maintaining a viable Communist threat into the 1990's Keeping cold war tensions continuously...
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