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  1. WI: Ivy League bans southern students?

    Honestly I think you need a broader context for this. Why are Northern elites ITTL so keen to keep stoking Civil War animosity, when their OTL equivalents made a halfhearted attempt at reconstruction and then moved on? Off the top of my head...lets say Abraham Lincoln appoints a radical...

  2. An independent Burgundy? The second son of Charles V

    Another thing that occurs to me: TTL's "Hapsburg Netherlands" will likely have significant conflicts of interest with the other two Hapsburg branches. Both it and the Austrians will likely want to be Holy Roman Emperor, and both the Hapsburg Netherlands and Spain will want to have large trading...

  3. An independent Burgundy? The second son of Charles V

    Well, "Prussia" didn't say much about the whole territory of the Elector of Brandenburg, and that didn't stop him. Being able to claim a "royal" title, no matter how tenious, was a really big deal in this era. That said, I could see them calling themselves the "Kingdom of Burgundy" as well...

  4. An independent Burgundy? The second son of Charles V

    Over ten years ago, I wrote a rather long TL (that I definately consider a relic of my youth now) with the premise that Charles V had a second son, who became ruler of the OTL Spanish Netherlands + Franche-Comte. But that said, I think it does make an interesting WI. So, to start the discussion...

  5. The Tale of the Years of Lead: The Crisis of the Confederacy, 1978-1993

    It's post-1900 (the POD is Roosevelt dying in 1933, followed by a worse Great Depression that leads to civil war in the US. I also killed off Hitler because WWII minus the US would have ended in either a Nazi or Soviet dominated Europe, and neither was the story I wanted to tell).

  6. The Tale of the Years of Lead: The Crisis of the Confederacy, 1978-1993

    Rising above a mass of smaller skyscrapers to dominate the skyline, the Confederate Capitol is visible from virtually any part of Atlanta, and a must-see on the list of any visitor to the city. In its design-two low wings for the Confederate House and Senate, with a towering Art Deco edifice...

  7. Victoria 3

    Anybody played the new patch? It reworked several systems in what, IMO, is a good direction, but apparently they didn't QC it before release and it feels rather buggy and unbalanced. (My favorite: there's a journal entry for Brazil to turn it into the coffee-exporting powerhouse it was...

  8. Personification of Catholic Rus

    Pretty much agree here. There are almost no geographic borders between Poland and Russia-notice how the OTL boundary between Russia and the PLC shifted back and forth by hundreds of miles, sometimes as a result of a single war. If Russia and Poland are both Catholic, one would have inevitably...

  9. What if: Orthodox Ottomans? (Orthodoxomans?)

    Ottoman tradition has it that the ancestors of the Ottoman dynasty didn't convert to Islam until after arriving in Anatolia, and furthermore Anatolia pre-1923 had significant populations of Turkish-speaking Orthodox Christians (such as the Karamanlides) who may have been the descendants of pagan...

  10. The Pale Horse: The Northwest Montana Insurgency and its Aftermath (1987-2002)

    I'm actually kind of curious about the RNL. First, what is the polygamist Mormon scene like ITTL? OTL it has two major branches: the Apostolic United Brethren (who, aside from the whole polygamy thing, are somewhat sane), and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (who are an...

  11. Victoria 3

    Yeah, the DLC model they've adopted feels really exploitative and controlling. I miss the days when there was a giant expansion once every year or two for $25, with no "free update" (featuring incomplete-without-the-DLC content) that forced itself into your game files whether you liked it or...

  12. Victoria 3

    So how's the latest DLC/patch? I saw enough complaining about bugs in the Paradox forums that I did what I did to EUIV after Leviathan came out-locked the game at the last good version (1.27 in this case) until Paradox releases a hotfix or two. Paradox is a good company that produces some...

  13. WI: The Arabs lose the Battle of Nahavand

    I actually like this idea! The Sassanid empire, having lost Mesopotamia, surviving as a lose confederation of nobles, held together more by fear of the Arabs on one side and the Turks on the other than by any centralized authority. Meanwhile, the Nestorian and Manichean religions spread, while...

  14. WI: The Arabs lose the Battle of Nahavand

    After the fall of Mesopotamia to the Arabs in the 630's, the Sassanid Emperor Yazdegird III raised a second army, which met the Arab army in Nahavand pass (near the modern day city of Hamadan, Iran) in 642. The Arabs were victorious, and while the Arabs had already taken Mesopotamia, the outcome...

  15. Why did Portugal fall from being a major power and how could've this been prevented?

    Hmm...I wonder if a good POD would be the War of Castilian Succession going the other way, resulting a Portuguese-Castilian union instead of an Aragonese-Castilian one. Although Castille will be the larger and more populous part of this union, Portugal will (after the Cape of Good Hope is...

  16. Bulgarian "Byzantine" Empire

    Hmm, I wasn't thinking about the fact that the Habsburg presence in Austria postdates my POD, and that my POD (by means of a Bulgarian/Byzantine alliance with Ottokar II) might plausibly butterfly it. It's one of the great ironies of history that almost all of Cisleithian Austria was Slavic...

  17. Bulgarian "Byzantine" Empire

    I meant Constantinople-I'm assuming they'd move the capital there once they conquered it. Tsargrad was a common Slavic name for Constantinople pre-1453

  18. Bulgarian "Byzantine" Empire

    I mean, one imagines better than OTL divided Bulgaria. A victory (or perceived victory) against the Mongols might be what helps solidify Bulgarian rule. Also, part of my thinking on the language situation ITTL was inspired by the OTL relationship between the Turkic languages and Persian in Iran...

  19. Bulgarian "Byzantine" Empire

    IOTL, after the Latin conquest in 1204, Constantinople was eventually recovered in 1261. But lets say somehow (maybe Tsar Kaloyan is more stable and lives to 50-60), Bulgaria, rather than Nicea, eventually surrounds and takes Constantinople. Some years back I wrote a TL with this very premise...

  20. A Short(ish) History of Alyaska

    Part I: Say the word "Alyaska", and what comes to mind? Most likely images of craggy mountains, polar bears, onion-domed Orthodox churches and the belle-epoque architecture of downtown Saint Nicholas. With its numerous outdoor activities, Russian folk singing, and seemingly endless kiosks...
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