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  1. Variant WWI

    A slightly different outcome to WWI. In 1918 Ludendorff either doesn't have his failure of nerve, or is held incommunicado by Hindenburg till his attack wears off, and Germany fights on after its allies have folded. In addition to advancing on the existing fronts the Allies land in Odessa and...

  2. Bahai challenge

    Challenge: make Bahai a world religion an a par with Christianity and Islam

  3. Taipings "win"

    Now I don't think the Taipings could have successfully conquered all of China, they were too much out of the Chinese mainstream for that, they could have overthrown the Ch'ing dynasty. In 1853, right after their capture of Nanking they sent a Northern Expedition that came as far as Tientsin...

  4. Austrian-Bavarian union 1735

    In 1735 when the habsburg Emperor was looking for a husband for his daughter and heir Marai Theresia the Bavarian heir Maximilian Joseph (II) was suggested. In the event Charles of Lorraine was preferred. But WI this marriage had come off, in due course uniting Bavaria with Austria?

  5. Brittany and Normandy

    In the 9C Brittany was a fairly substantial kingdom that acquired the western third of modern Normandy from the failing Carolingians and stretched as far east as Angers in the south. Then in 914(?) it was conquered by Vikings. The Bretons managed to throw these out again after 20 yrs or so but...

  6. Japanese-Korean war of 1873

    In 1873 Takamori Saigo, hero of the civil war that produced the Meiji Restoration proposed provoking a war with Korea and sending an army predominantly composed of old style-samurai, in order to give that class something to do, at a time that a sizable portion of the Meiji-leadership was off on...

  7. Stilico's error

    The failure of Stilico to respond to the incursion of the Vandals et al. across the Rhine in retrospect proved to be the point of no return for the Western Roman Empire. Instead he insisted on renewing the civil war with the East. The barbarian incursion produced an usurpation which for...

  8. first crusade

    The crusaders of the First Crusade had three lucky escapes: - At the battle of Doryleon the crusaders were marching in two groups when the foremost was attacked and given a hard time by the Seljuks. The Seljuks failed to spot or realize that they were engaging only part of the enemy, so when...

  9. Nechtansmere

    WI the battle of Nechtansmere in 685 AD had an opposite outcome? That is the Northumbrians manage to completely defeat and conquer the (southern) Picts, instead of the other way round. The Northumbrian defeat also meant that their pre-eminence among the other Anglo-Saxons was broken.

  10. Catterick

    WI the battle of Catterick in 598 AD had an opposite outcome? That is Gododdin - a British kingdom around modern Edinburgh manages to completely defeat and conquer Anglo-Saxon Northumbria, instead of the other way round.

  11. Hansa goes west

    Just an idea: WI sometime in the 13C the son of a Hansa merchant in Bergen, Norway is regaled with tales of the Norse voyages to Greenland and Vinland by one or more of the servants (maybe one of 'em is from Iceland?). Later on, when he is older and has become a merchant of considerable...

  12. Philippos lives!-TL

    336 BC: OTL: Philppos II of Macedon is assassinated, Alexander the Great becomes king TTL: Someone warns the King. Philippos manages to ward off his would-be assassin until alert guardsmen runs him (the assassin) through. The festivities continue. Philippos joins his army in Anatolia and...

  13. Liegnitz-TL

    The battle of Liegnitz in 1760 was a lucky escape for Frederick the Great. The Austrians had the Prussians hemmed in between two armies under Loudoun and Daun. the plan was to march through the night and attack simultaneously from two sides. In the event Loudoun's part came off too quickly and...

  14. Challenge: split Chinese people

    Can you come up with a scenario, beginning after the Han dynasty, which results in two (or more) Chinese peoples, one in the Hoang-Ho and one in the Yangtze valley, with closely related but distinct languages/cultures, like the Romans diverged into Spanish/Italians/French etc.?

  15. Khazaria on the Dniepr

    What do you think of this? Khazaria on the Dniepr There is a notion that Kiev may have started as a Khazar outpost before being taken over by the Varangians. WI this was more firmly established? So let's suppose as POD that in the early 9C there was a rebellion among the Slavs...

  16. Parsistan down under

    Wjat do you think of this? Somewhere around 800 a Parsi trading vessel on its way from India to the Spice Islands is blown off course ending up on the coast of Australia. On board is a scion of a prominent Parsi merchant family from [Bombay] named Rustam?. Having a dream of a country where...

  17. another Iraq-Kuwait WI

    In 1961(IIRC) Iraq threatened to take over Kuwait but was stopped by a UK threat of military intervention. So WI the Iraqi's decided to call the British bluff (if it was a bluff)? thoughts? Consequences?

  18. Bigger DDR

    WI Stalin had insisted on a share of occupied Germany that reflected the number of German divisions facing the Red Army vs. those facing the Western Allies? So say he ends up with an occupation zone that includes as well Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Lower Saxony as far as Bremen, Bavaria and all...

  19. No WW I TL

    I'm a bit surprised that this POD isn't more frequent (or maybe I'm not really very good at searching this forum?) Anyways, I spent too long on this not to share it with you :rolleyes: Pt 1 - 1914-1929 Sarajevo 1914 POD: Someone tells Franz Ferdinand's driver that rhe Archduke...
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