We should probably have an: Any scenario involving the Balkans and Anatolia option, since those threads always degenerate into a flame war.
Which period are you referring to?
We should probably have an: Any scenario involving the Balkans and Anatolia option, since those threads always degenerate into a flame war.
The worst would incorporate all these. Alexander the Great conquers China, but his empire falls apart at his death and the Romans rule an empire stretching from Scandinavia to the Sea of Japan. Because of Roman brutality in Judea, Mary is killed before Jesus' birth. Barbarians from the steppe tear apart the Roman empire in the 6th century; the Sino-Romans take to the sea to escape the Central Asian hordes, setting up a seafaring nation in the islands of the Sea of China. By the 14th century they have reached America and settled the west coast. The east coast is settled by the Alt-British, but their taxation on posset causes a rebellion. Luckily posset is not very popular, so they easily crush the rebels by 1803. The war in North America, however, distracts them from a greater war in Europe, and the Emperor of France, Napoleon I, tunnels under the channel to launch a surprise invasion of Britain. The British surrender, and hand over their colonies to France. Napoleon gives independence to the USA in 1800 under the rule of his brother Lucien, who goes on to conquer the Sino-Roman settlements on the west coast. Following Napoleon's death in 1833 the empire fragments. Tensions grow between east and west coast, and in 1850 the Chinese States of America (CSA) secede from the USA. With the help of the brilliant General Li, they are able to win a succession of victories stunning victories over the USA, and are recognised as independent by most countries in 1852. The Germans, who haven't been very busy in this history decide they don't like the look of anyone else and that the Germans are probably a race of supermen. They conquer Europe with ease, and then use Napoleon's tunnels and some Rhine barges to conquer Britain. The first member of the German armed forces across is the 17th Infantry Division's ceremonial sea lion. The British realise that the Germans were right all along about the super men bit and join the German armed forces en masse. This helps the Germans conquer the Soviet Union with ease, as the British scientist chappies are able to show Heisenberg where he'd gone wrong with his nuclear bomb calculations, and the Germans drop A-bombs on Leningrad and Stalingrad, ending the war. All that remains is a rump Soviet state in the far east and Sakhalin. Following the conquest of the western Soviet Union, the USA falls easily. Naturally, the CSA, rump-Soviet Union and the Xiongnu Dynasty of China ally against this threat, and develop their own A-bombs. A pro-Nazi coup takes place in Luzon in 1959, and the National Socialist Union of Europe station missiles on the island. In 1962, Chinese spy planes spot the nuclear missiles. The tensions grow: a Chinese blockade is challenged by European ships. A naval skirmish breaks out: missiles fly, everyone dies.
LOL LOL LOL
Seriously man, that was the most wonderful scenario that I ever read...
Maybe someone from ASB forum could make a detailed TL for that...?
Btw, did everyone forget about Muslim-wank, Byzanti-wank, and (of course) Ameri-wank?
Anyone else notice that the percentages in the poll add up to ~231%?
The emperor convert: the rise of the Imperial Roman Caliphate!! (although it would just be a Greek Ottoman Emoire I guess).I would be really curious of a TL being both Muslim-wank and Byzanti-wank
I would be really curious of a TL being both Muslim-wank and Byzanti-wank
And as for the Russians? A lot of 'em, sure, but all a bunch of hairy, illiterate, cowardly, Urrah shouting, Vodka swilling, bayonet waving (if they actually get a rifle) idiots-easy meat for our Panzer divisions!