AHC: Replace Germany and France, expand Spain and Britain

Germany and France are favored often on this site, while England and the Castile usually aren't.

So figure out a way to replace Germany and France with other nations, and simultaneously expand Spain and Britain.

The later the POD the better.

Britain can be called England, and Spain can be called Iberia or Hispania, or be united by Portugal instead of Castile/Aragon, if necessary.
 
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Spain usually does get screwed with. Britian as several people have pointed OTL was basically a Britian-wank. France and Germany usually how there favored depends on the timeline.

Depending on the time period you could have the house of Trastamara last longer and somewhere down the line diversify it's marriage potential so it doesn't suffer from having horribly inbred monarchs on the throne. What a non Hapsburg Spain may do in the long run is up in the air while they might not be dragged into most European wars they still would have to worry about France and it's possessions in Naples could be Ottoman targets.

Britian/England: not much you can really do unless you make English gains in France more longer lasting to the point where there could be an Independent Scotland. Doing so would weaken France but it might make colonies seem out of the question, if you make back and forth for too long.

France same as above

Germany: You could have the Polish not need help fighting the Prussian tribes and avert the drive to the east. No Prussia or Teutonic Order as we know could lead to alternate circumstances of German Unification and a smaller Germany.
 
Germany and France are favored often on this site, while England and the Castile usually aren't.

England isn't favoured? Have you seen how many posts there are asking for some POD to make its empire even bigger?

Also France favoured? It realy isn't. At best there are a couple of high profile posters, who were starting to dislike how often France is screwed over and started to speak up.
 
England isn't favoured? Have you seen how many posts there are asking for some POD to make its empire even bigger?
Scotland, Ireland, and Wales are often larger or separate from England. The British Empire is usually smaller as well.

Questions and AHCs about possible British conquests aren't all that common. Though a long time ago there was an obsession on this site with Cape to Cairo.

Also France favoured? It realy isn't. At best there are a couple of high profile posters, who were starting to dislike how often France is screwed over and started to speak up.
Germany is often favored over France, but when it isn't, French Canada is always larger or independent. Louisiana remaining French happens often. Same for Algeria, Madagascar, etc.

And the dozens and dozens of Napoleonic victory questions and TLs. Which entails a larger, much larger, France.
 
The assumption about the metacommunity here that somehow Britain/England is being neglected or France being overly favored is completely at odds with the facts on the ground.

I'll agree with you though that Spain is often forgotten or simply used to whip native Americans before the other Europeans powers and/or the US-analogue smack it around.
 
At most, France has a "Hey, stop with the Francescrews/what if France did better?" minority.

Germany and England are regularly wanked just as a matter of course.
 
Well I was including ASB and Shared Worlds. Though I'd still say France is wanked and, though Britain is occasionally wanked, England is screwed.
 
For Spain, maybe Ferdinand VII isn't such an idiot and Spain keeps her American Empire. Perhaps they (the colonies) are transformed into Dominions like what England did with Canada, South Africa and others.
 
Well I was including ASB and Shared Worlds. Though I'd still say France is wanked and, though Britain is occasionally wanked, England is screwed.

I don't know about ASB and Shared Worlds, but England is almost never screwed - at worst it does less well than OTL Britain.

But "England is divided up among various powers" or the like? No.

Picked as something several timelines wind up doing to France.
 
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Germany and France are favored often on this site, while England and the Castile usually aren't.

Agree with the other posters that this is not represented by reality. Germany and England/Britain are the two most wanked countries on this board. France routinely gets screwed, though there are some (including myself) who like to see it do better. Spain is always ignored.
 
Are you guys including After 1900 and the OTL Nazi occupation of France? Otherwise, I can't say I've noticed France being screwed more than wanked.

In any case, what about the actual AHC instead of what I said is typical on the site. Only a couple posts have actually responded to the question.
 
I know In An Age of Miracles France and Spain get screwed over big time France gets divided into Lotharingia in the east, Arles in the south and France-England in rest. Spain if I remember correctly is still Castile and Aragon with a strong Al-Andalus in the south.

It's been said before France and Spain get screwed alot, while England and Germany get wanked alot. That being said Does Italy get screwed alot on the forums.
 
To bring this thread on topic, for once:

I'd say the classic mega-Andalus scenario could help this goal, at least regarding France and Spain. Even if there ends up being a Reconquista, it will be taking place within OTL France, and there's no guarantee of it destabilizing Spain or centralizing Austroligeria (much less under Parisian leadership).
 
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