DBWI wank the Franks

The Franks were always the least impressive of the four Old World civilizations. Reverse that.
Make them help their Germanic brethren as the tide of war shifted back in Rome's favor after the Majorianic reforms. a later PoD might involve them repelling the Romans at the Oder in 654, but at that point the roman advance might have been inevitable - the frontier was already pushed twice, and the various slavic principalities already made headway well into germanic territory at that point.
 
Dude, OTL? The Frankish Empire? Literally gave their name to a modern day power? Claimants to Rome? That’s rather impressive.

DBWI= Double blind what if.
Like Churchill's "If Lee Had Not Won at Gettysburg" speculating about all the horrors that would ensue from the Union winning the Civil War.
 
DBWI= Double blind what if.
Like Churchill's "If Lee Had Not Won at Gettysburg" speculating about all the horrors that would ensue from the Union winning the Civil War.
OOC: Sorry! Didn’t notice that bit, familiar with DBWIs, just didn’t see that, I’ll delete the post.
 
The Franks were always the least impressive of the four Old World civilizations. Reverse that.

Not impossible. But they have to oust the Romans from Gaul before Alaric II did, thus dominating Western Europe for upcoming centuries by Visigoth Kingdoms. Not sure if the Franks can beat the Visigoths alone but the Romans were still Catholic before Alarics conquest. They might be brothers in arms against the Arians.

I wonder if they still could prevent a partition by the Visigoths, Saxons and Burgundians though. I have my doubts.
 
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