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  1. Julius Caesar routed at Bibracte

    This looks like a good POD for the Gallic Wars to come to a swift and ignominious end, if the Helvetii's allies had arrived sooner. Let's suppose that Caesar is killed in battle and his troops routed. His action in pursuing them might well have seemed ill-advised, so I don't see either Crassus...

  2. AHC: American Neutrality in WWII

    I think this may require several PoDs, perhaps some earlier than 1933, but here are the conditions: America may engage in hostilities elsewhere, but not in the European theatre. In terms of trade and sanctions, it will favour neither side officially, No Notzies. The same people are in...

  3. WWI ends like WWII

    The early surrender of the Provisional Government after the abdication of the Tsar (how plausible is this?) and/or the action of a certain Bavarian corporal (Iron Cross, posthumous) leads to an unexpected breakthrough in the Spring Offensive of 1918., and a massacre of American prisoners of...

  4. The Devil Rolls Nat 20s

    Inspired by this post of Calbear's: What are the best pre-1900 examples of such ASB streaks?

  5. Deutschland Uber Alles?

    I've been looking for some time, but I can't find any threads on this. What is the best likely outcome over the next generation for someone non-genicidal taking control of Germany in the 1930s?

  6. A Well-Regulated Militia?

    What would the early United States have been like if they had decided permanently against a standing army?

  7. Robert the First and Fourth?

    When Elizabeth I of England fell ill from smallpox in October 1562, she asked the Privy Council to make Robert Dudley Lord Protector. Fortunately, from the point of view to most of the English nobility, she quickly recovered. What if, instead, she had remained seriously ill for some time? So...

  8. AHC: Short Second World War

    Germany invades Poland, but surrenders to Britain and France before Japan confronts America. They may receive some support from the USA, but no direct military involvement. Is it possible and if so, how? Problems I see: The Allies have no way to directly intervene in Poland, and few ways to...

  9. AHC: North America Divided East/West

    With a POD post-Columbus, have OTL USA-and-Canada divided into at least two countries enduring to the present day, with a major border running along either the Great Divide or the Mississippi/Missouri/Great Lakes waterway

  10. AHC: Snow on Their Boots

    Is there any way for the Central Powers to secure a treaty with Russia in time to have a successful *Ludendorf Offensive before the Americans are fully engaged? I thinking of the situation in the Anglo/American Nazi War, only 20-something years earlier.

  11. WI Lundy Surrenders Derry

    I recently attended a lecture on the formation of the Orange Order, in which this claim was made was made: If James had been able to secure the port of Londonderry, he could have used Lough Foyle and Lough Swilly to transfer troops to Scotland and thus possibly regain the throne. What are your...

  12. Charles I dies at Edgehill

    And everyone takes a deep breath. By this time, both sides know that a quick and easy military victory is unlikely, and now they have a 14-year-old king in Charles II. I think it likely that he will keep his crown if he doesn’t immediately show himself to be a chip of the old block. Republican...

  13. 1560: Francis II lives, but Elizabeth I dies

    The Queen of France is now heir to the thrones of both England and Scotland. How does she press her claim, and who disputes it? Alternatively, would it be more interesting to have Francis die on schedule, and have Elizabeth follow him shortly after Mary's return to Scotland - either before or...

  14. Preparing for Barbarossa

    I've seen it argued sometimes that Stalin was taken by surprise, dismissing reports of the German buildup to invasion as British propaganda. Yet he can hardly have been unaware of Hitler's ultimate intentions, so what could or should he have done that was different from, say the start of 1938...

  15. WW1: A Lucky Peace?

    By the end of the Spring Offensive in 1918, several British and French units were on the point of mutiny. We now know that the Germans were also in trouble, with hardly enough supplies to hold on to their gains, let alone exploit them further. Once fully-trained conscripts arrived and/or the...

  16. James the Seventh of Scotland

    Is there any way that James II could have abdicated rule in England in favour of William and Mary, while remaining King of Scotland (and Ireland)?

  17. AHC: Saving Hitler

    Suppose the little guy (and whoever else is your favourite Nazi villain) dies post-Anschluss but before the Czech business. Is Germany already commited to the smash-and-grab that led to WWII, or is there some way back? Remember, it's still the Nazi party in charge, but they're not quite so...

  18. AHC: Monarchical America

    The challenge: Establish stable monarchies in New Spain, New France, New England and/or any other territory in North America. Extra points if the parent Royal House moves there permanently - even more if you can get the sub-continent as a whole to be seen as the 'natural home' of kings.

  19. Next Year in Jerusalem - How Early?

    Is modern Zionism a product of 19th Century Nationalism, or is it possible to have an earlier equivalent? I have in mind an independent State/Kingdom attracting support and immigration from the Diaspora, and possibly at least attempting to restore Temple worship. What POD would have the best...

  20. AHC: American/Nazi Alliance

    The Nazis were always going to invade France, both as revenge for WW1 and to provide material for future action against Russia. Their attitude to Britain and the US seems at first more ambivalent. Not only was invasion practically impossible, but they were seen un some sense as Anglo-Saxon...
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