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Your challenge is to create an alternate timeline which puts the largest navies you can realistically think of up against each other. Some amount of increased naval production is acceptable. I will allow a navy of a country to be only 150% of what it was OTL. No "everyone joins the navy". Try to...

Chapter 1, The Battle of Porto Praya Suffren’s Shadow: A History of the Naval War in the Indian Ocean, 1777-1783 The Battle of Porto Praya, for all of its diminutive size compared to other great naval battles of the American Revolution, compared to First Ushant, the Chesapeake, Grenada, the...

In a world where California was not colonized by Spain, instead it was colonized by Britain, as a second crown colony. Post American Revolution, immigration picked up, leading to a large, young population in the colony when we hit our POD. In 1810, Napoleon was in complete control of Europe...

During Battle of Crécy, the first main land battle of HYW and first great victory of English, French had suffered heavy losses. The king Philip Valois himself was heavily wounded, but it wasn't as bad as it looked. But what if... The first King of France from House of Valois either died...

So this alternate history TL is going to be fairly short but I just wanted to see if it could be explored and how plausible you guys think it actually could be. Before we discuss the point of divergence (it isn't the battle of vienna, the Ottomans still lose this as they did in OT), and the...

The year is 1590, decisive Ottoman and Uzbek military victories against the Safavid Empire, coupled with internal political problems put the Safavids on the verge of collapse. In OT, the Treaty of Constantinople in 1590 granted all land West of the Zagros Mountains and Caspain Sea to the Ottoman...

This will be the last thread that I create currently with my ongoing story-line's. This is something that I have been laying a lot of groundwork for. Basically, most of what I have read indicates that Field Marshal Douglas Haig handled the Somme offensive very badly, to put it in the least...

A military disaster is the unexpected and sound defeat of one side in a battle or war, sometimes changing the course of history. Military disasters can range from a strong army losing a major battle against a clearly inferior force, to an army being surprised and defeated by a clearly superior...

Simply put, a series of alternate war theaters and battle that differ from OTL. Any war will do, but the WW@ ones especially capture my interest.

Another scenario focusing on Indo-Afghan relations... IOTL, the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80) was an armed conflict fought in Afghanistan that pitted the British, who intended to estabilish an embassy in Kabul, secure their border, and perhaps also appoint a puppet Emir, against the Barakzai...

We all know the samurai, either historical or romanticized, they we're skilled warriors. This Thread is mainly focusing on death battles like that show Deadliest Warriors. If a Sengoku period samurai army we're to face various famous fighting classes or cultures, like examples: Samurai VS...

On the topic of HYW battles going the wrong way for the English (i have made previous threads on Crécy and Agincourt)... Suppose that John II of France and his army manages to defeat and rout the English at the Battle of Poitiers, in 1356 AD. Either that, or the battle is avoided through...

One of the major battles of British history in the period after Edington (878) is Brunanburh, pitched in a now generally undefined location. The battle was fought by the Anglo-Saxons, led by Athelstan I, on one side, and a coalition between the states of Strathclyde, Alba (Scotland), and Norse...

In my opinion, the Battle of Lalakaon (or Poson) (863 AD) in eastern Anatolia is one of the most underrated battles of Byzantine history. It pitted the forces of emperor Michael III on one side and the forces of the emir of Melitene, Umar Al-Aqta, whose state consistently raided Anatolia, on the...

What if the East Francian army had managed to defeat the Magyars at Pressburg, in 907 AD? Could this lead to a "pannonian crusade" of sorts? Is an East Francian Hungary in the cards?

Suppose that the irish rebel forces and their spanish assistants manage to defeat elizabethan England at the Battle of Kinsale, in 1601 AD. What happens next? Could we see a spanish-friendly independent Ireland, even if for a short period of time? Who would become the King of Ireland?

What if Frederick Barbarossa had managed to defeat the Lombard League sometime around the Battle of Legnano? Could restless and semi-independent North Italy be brought back under the thumb of the emperor? What are the effects of this on Fred's reign, his successors, and the Holy Roman Empire...

With a POD any time from 5,000 BC to 1991 AD, what is the largest conceivable battle in territorial area, size of the armies involved, casualties, and longest duration?

What is your favorite military clash that happened between the fall of Constantinople (1453) and the fall of the Bastille (1789, mark of the French Revolution)? Mine are... Pavia (1515) -- prevented the bourbon french from expanding their ambitions in Italy and cemented Milan as a Habsburg...

What if the Ottoman Empire's forces had been defeated by the crusaders at the Battle of Nicopolis? Would this breathe new life into the Second Bulgarian Empire? What are the wider effects over ottoman expansion into the balkans?