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Alright, so Solo's Khaganate TL over on alternativehistories.hevnet finished a couple of days ago and I wanted to know what you guys think of it? Personally, I'm not very fond of it.

It started out promising - the POD of Temujin uniting the tribes instead of Jamukha isn't something you see every day - but it turned bad quickly. I mean, okay, by all accounts Temujin was just as brilliant as Jamukha so the idea of him going on a huge conquest spree isn't exactly ASB, but him and his successors conquering half the fucking world? Seems unlikely, to say the least. :rolleyes:

Plus, there's how obviously biased it is. The Mongol Empire utterly ruins the Islamic world? Pulling back due to instability before it can properly attack Christendom? Failing to conquer Japan due to the weather twice? I understand that giving the 'losers' of history chances to be 'winners' is part of alternate history, but this is all kind of ridiculous - Europe didn't exactly do badly in OTL, but according to the Epilogue in this they go on to basically dominate the entire planet.

So yeah. I think it's a biased, near ASB, horrible example of alternative history no matter how entertaining Solo made it to read. But what do you guys think?
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