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What if Licinius (roman emperor who co-authored the Edict Of Milan with Constantine then turned his sword on him) had managed to defeat Constantine's outnumbered forces at the battle of Cibalae, in 314 AD? Could we see Licinius taking the purple and reigning as sole emperor? What are the effects...

What if Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor, had won the Battle Of Stilo back in 981 AD? IOTL, the battle was part of Otto's plans to reconquer Calabria from the sicilian muslims, which failed after it. The defeat at Stilo also had an effect on the empire as a whole -- pagan slavs in what would become...

What if the moroccan marinid sultan Abu Al-Hasan Ali had defeated the castilians and portuguese at the Battle Of Rio Salado (October 1340, also known as the Battle Of Tarifa), under the pretext of estabilishing protection over the remaining iberian moorish taifas? For how long could the...

IOTL, during the Wars Of The Diadochi, there was a pitched battle between Antigonus I Monophthalmus on one side, and a coalition of Seleucus I Nicator, Cassander of Macedon, and Lysimachus of Thrace on the other side. Here's a map of the near east, previous to the Battle Of Ipsus: Antigonus...

The Battle of Crécy was one of the first major battles of the Hundred Years' War, fought in northeastern France. Edward III of England's army, composed of english soldiers and some german mercenaries, managed to defeat the numerically superior french army led by Philip VI. The battle saw the...

What if Attila, king of the huns, had managed to defeat the romans and their barbarian allies at the Battle Of The Catalaunian Plains (451 AD)? Would he be able to conquer Gaul? And after conquering Gaul, where would he go next? Italy? What are the effects on the barbarian migrations? What are...

The Battle Of Orsha was perhaps the most decisive moment of the Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars. The muscovites were confident that they could reunite the whole of the former Kievan Rus' lands, while the Lithuanians, alongside their polish allies, were a target of such expansionism. However, after...

IOTL both the Italian and Austro-Hungarian navies adopted a very cautious fleet policy, neither navy engaged in extensive operations far from their bases. Instead remaining within the confines of harbors and not attempting to play a part in the war. But what if that was not the case. What if...

Post Regimental Colors for past,modern, and alternate military units.

Recently I have been reading alot of historical accounts of battles taking place in the ancient world. One of the things that strikes me is the size of the armies that fought. During Xeres invasion of Greece he had an army of between a million and four million depending on the source. Alaxander...

Wasn't sure whether to post this in post-1900 or PolitiChat, but here we go. Basically battles pointless not necessarily in human lives lost (Stalingrad lost a hell of a lot of lives but made a huge difference) but that they didn't ultimately have much of an effect on either war and could have...

This is a Slovak/Hungarian medieval POD that's been kicking around in my head for several years now. For info on the Battle of Rozhanovce, click here, here and here. In OTL, at one point in the battle, king Charles I.'s troops were overwhelmed. It got so bad that even the king's standard...