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  1. AHC: Italy as a major power.

    Playing some Victoria 2 is usually fun as an Italian nation getting to form them and seeing how powerful you can make them on the global stage. Likely the appeal to many of us with scenarios with this is Italy being a balkanised nation throughout the Middle Ages and a playground for other powers...

  2. WI: Magyars convert to Orthodoxy

    The Magyars under Almos and his son Alpad moved into the Pannonian basin against the Bulgars and Avars as pressure from other nomads forced them to move west. They managed to conquer the region from Bulgaria, but didn't manage to completely crush them as they initially hoped, instead settling...

  3. Would you say this video about Ottomans in Vienna is reasonable?

    I'm not sure if this is the right place to post youtube discussions for videos, but I wandered what agreements or disagreements people here may have regarding the topic of the Ottomans winning at Vienna. I do like this Youtubers discussions, though I think he is too definitive at times, and...

  4. Medieval army sizes?

    Sorry if this is the wrong place, but Are there any good resources or estimates for the maximum army sizes that could be levied by kingdoms or nations in medieval times, if only based on modern estimated without primary sources? Examples such as: 13th century HRE. 11-13th century Japan...

  5. WI: No Khwarezmian Betrayal

    Researching medieval history, an interesting point I've thought about is what if the sultan of Khwarezmia hadn't been a total idiot and massacred Temujin's caravan and ambassadors, which directly led to war between them and the Mongols. Khwarezmia was one of the most prosperous empires in the...

  6. Semenov in Mongolia/Buryatia

    I know this is the third Mongolia topic I've done, but I've noticed that while Sternberg had become a mini-trope himself, his superior Gregori Semenov never really had been a particular feature of a timeline besides as a footnote. Unlike the mad monarchist, Semenov was a genuine pan-Mongolist...

  7. WI/AHC: Dambiijantsan Mongolia

    When people think of pre-Soviet post-1900 Mongolia, we think of the infamous warlord Ungern-Sternberg, the Baltic nobleman with a love of the occult, wishing to liberate the Mongolians from Chinese oppression and create a new empire under the Bogd Khan. What less know is that there was another...

  8. Some Sternberg resources.

    A bit simple but I found a few interesting sites looking into what the lunatic warlord was like beside the common myths of him claiming to be a god. These articles: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/ungern-sternberg-buddhist-isis/459327/ and...

  9. Red Sun Rising: The Reverse-Russo-Japanese War

    Exert from John MacIntyre's ‘Baptised in Blood and Fire: The Story of Revolutionary Ideologies in East Asia’, 1982, pp.124 “The vast continent of Asia’s history is prolific and rich in ways that are greatly overlooked in our European culture, with long and ancient traditions being formed and...

  10. Additional landmasses in the world

    I'd been looking through some old threads (such as https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=165135 ) about continental drift and such, particularly how different continental developments could have been made. It turns out that the amount of lands that could have been/were is...

  11. AHC/WI- no triple intervention

    In OTL, Japan made major gains against China in the 1st Sino-Japanese war, but due to Germany, France and Russia forced them to give Shangdong back to China and Mccarthur to Russia. The latter was later regained during the Russo-Japanese war, but it was quite costly. How could we have them...

  12. AHC: worst possible nation

    Today I watched a documentary about the oppressive regime in Pyongyang and the fanaticism of its citizens due to decades of indoctrination. I then thought about less long lives regimes in Germany and Cambodia tegardinf their brutality. So I wonder, how brutal can a nation realistically get, and...

  13. Question: Napoleonic Russia Peace Treaty

    We all know that the Napoleonic invasion of Russia was one of, if not Napoleon's worst decisions ever. A combination of attacking the biggest nation on Earth while still at war with the British and Portuguese and having alienated most of Europe, along with the Russian winter and the extreme...

  14. Expanded WW1 (warning may be ASB)

    I know this may sound ASB (and it can be moved there if you want) the following happen: * Germany enacts the full Schliefen Plan (including Netherlands) * China joins Germany in order to gain Hong Kong from the UK, and Outer Manchuria, Tanu Tuva and possibly even small regions of central asia...
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