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Assuming that Hideyoshi was somehow able to conquer Korea and then decided to set his eyes on the Kingdom of Ayutthaya for whatever reason (pick your reasoning: desire to control one of the largest and wealthiest cities in Asia at the time, he wanted to see an elephant, he felt bored, etc.)...

Hello everyone, and welcome to a brand new adventure. While we wait for my next large scale project, Horizon, I began to wonder about a new project, and a new story - one that takes us not to space (Right away, at least), but the bottom of the ocean. Scorpion’s Tale is a story of Cold War...

This is based off an old thread I did years ago, but with a slightly modified scenario. As we know, the Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire were the Sultan's household guard, and became the elite infantry of the Ottoman Empire, helping in their conquests in Europe. However, the Janissaries...

I'm not sure if there's a specific name for this phenomenon, but since time immemorial, militaries have tended to 'mix' their soldiers, meaning that you generally won't see a unit comprised solely of people from Region X or Town Y or Village Z, and you sure as hell won't see a unit like that...

Few vehicles in WWII are more instantly recognisable than the ones aforementioned in the title. I am focusing on those specific aircrafts and cars as I feel that they were litterally used for anything and everything, the Jeep obviously chief among them. But what if the Jeep never got to become...

As I'm sure many people know, Elvis Presley was drafted into the U.S. Army On March 24, 1958. The day he arrived at the base, he famously said that he didn't want to be treated differently than anyone else and that, "The Army can do anything it wants with me." Would have included going to war...

The Premise of this thread is to create an Alternate Alliance, Organization or Union around the world, with alternate nations. It could be an alternate alliance from OTL (Like an alternate Entente) or a fully new fictional alliance. You must discuss the history of why that Alliance formed Here...

This challenge calls for one or more military leaders outside of the Western World to be able to develop and field small, cohesive and highly organized, professional, technologically advanced, and highly motivated armies that can function in long, extended campaigns that may involve combat in a...

Firearms are not my speciality, but I've noticed praise for 6.5 mm cartridge on other forums (I've encountered it especially on Polish forums, with some users regretting, that Second Polish Republic adopted Mauser rifle with 7.92x57 mm cartridge as standard service rifle instead of Arisaka...

Could a Hydra (anti-air) tank work? (A tank where most of its weapons are anti-air). Terrible vs. other tanks, but this is used primarily as support for tanks to deal with enemy fighter aircraft or attack helicopters. In theory this can reduce enemy air superiority advantage via Surface to air...

A brief overview of how North Indian military worked from the ancient to early medieval period. I feel like this is important before I talk about the WI scenario: There were 4 main units: elephants, charioteers, cavalry, and infantry. The infantry consisted of very well equipped bowmen with...

What it says in the title keep the Nighthawk in service and make a successor to the Blackbird it cannot be a drone and it has to be able to reach maximum Match 8

The Roman Army was legendary for its discipline. Toward the end of the Empire, the army got way weaker. Some think it was due to the changes in weapons, but others claim that discipline falling apart caused the Army to become weaker? Why did the Roman Army's discipline fall apart? Was it the...

Let's assume that MacArthur decides, for whatever reason, that retaining the relatively high paying jobs in Japan's military-industrial complex is vital to rebuilding Japan, and the Japanese military is reorganized into the Japan Self-Defense Forces in either late 1945 or early 1946, rather...

Supposing European militaries are almighty and the African geopolitical landscape is hopelessly fragmented. I'm imagining a no industrial revolution scenario, hence why the pre-1900 category.

In a scenario where the KMT crushed the Chinese Communists in TTL's Chinese Civil War (assume there is a truncated PRC-in-Manchuria as a "reverse Taiwan" of sorts), how would the military of the Republic of China develop? What would military doctrine of the RoC military be? How would the...

So the AHC in this thread is to create a more militaristic education system, wherein all schools in your country of origin are run like military schools, with a huge emphasis on disciple and exercise. What would be the effects of a society with that education system? What PODs would be necessary...

I was reading an article recently, about how Benjamin Franklin had an idea of using longbows and pikes as alternative to muskets, due to the limited production of the Colonies. It never came to be. So what if the Military decided to form an Archer company? In 1776, the Archer company is...

So how do you think the military of a surviving Russian Empire would work? -- I was thinking about prominent Tsarist officers, specifically how many of them were still prominent come WWII. It occurred to me that Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (yes, that Mannerheim) was the only one I knew...

What if, during the 1500s and 1600s, during the Protestant Reformation, various groups of protestants form brotherhoods, equivalent to the religious Military Orders, like the Templars and Teutonic Knights, to protect other protestants from violent Catholic reprisals and crackdowns?