Attila Shahanshah: Hunnic Persia

Early medieval TLs also tend to be very unpopular (both to write and when they are written they never seem to attract many readers).

fasquardon
 
I wonder why that is?

I don't know, my Amalingian Empire TL gets a fair share of readers; not as many as i might like, of course (lets face it, i want ALL the readers! :p ) but a good bit. I think some of the problem is the lack of sources, in many ways. There isnt a lot of stuff there (there is a surprising bit once you really start digging, but not as much as during, say, the Roman Empire). Also, people on this voard have a strange fascination with saving Rome. A TL that happens after the fall doesn't seem as sexy as one where Rome recovers.
 

Binturong

Banned
I don't know, my Amalingian Empire TL gets a fair share of readers; not as many as i might like, of course (lets face it, i want ALL the readers! :p ) but a good bit. I think some of the problem is the lack of sources, in many ways. There isnt a lot of stuff there (there is a surprising bit once you really start digging, but not as much as during, say, the Roman Empire). Also, people on this voard have a strange fascination with saving Rome. A TL that happens after the fall doesn't seem as sexy as one where Rome recovers.


So I've noticed, but aren't the implications here the possible prolonging of the death of the Western Roman Empire by at least a century or two?
 
Funny, I was listening to the History of Rome episode about the Huns just yesterday.

If the Huns don't go west, they don't end up serving in Roman armies as mercenaries. As such, they probably don't pick siege warfare as easily (if that's where they learned it) and become way less of a threat to the defense in depth tactics of the Roman Empire.

If there is no Hun invasion of the west there's also less pressure on the Germanic tribes and that way, you remove one of the major players of the fall of Rome, giving it time to stabilise.
 
So I've noticed, but aren't the implications here the possible prolonging of the death of the Western Roman Empire by at least a century or two?

Possibly. Without the Huns you are certainly going to see less pressure from various refuges coming into the Empire. The Goths probably remain the largest power in the steppes for some time; and, yes, the thought of the Eastern Germanic languages surviving in that region is really, really cool! :)

However, by this time you were already seeing the heavy Germanization of the Roman military, and the borders had already begun to falter; the Franks in particular had been raiding as far as Hispania at certain points. The Empire MIGHT be able to weather this reduced storm, but I'm not entirely sure that that is a foregone conclusion either. We may just see different groups exploiting Rome's weakness (and, yes, it likely won't be as weak as it was in OTL post-Hunnic invasion, but it was by no means well). Its possible we end up with Lombardic North Africa or Allemanni Hispania instead of OTL's configuration.
 
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