Im thinking of starting a TL

Hendryk

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Unfortunately, as of yet you aren't 'pretty good' at either of these things, as several of your prior posts show. Consider instead reading (books, not wikipedia) and researching a topic of interest and come back and try to post a timeline in a couple of years.
I wholly second this advice. There is obviously a disconnect between what you think you know, and what you actually know. The solution is to read, do some research (using serious sources), and only then to start writing.

There's no shame in not being knowledgeable on a given topic. Every one of us started out ignorant. The problem is when you mistakenly believe you're knowledgeable when in fact you aren't.

Keep in mind that the main discussion forums, the ones that actually deal with alternate history, are subject to stricter rules than SW. People here post TLs that require a lot of prior research and intellectual effort, and disregard for plausibility is liable to attract criticism. It's also considered rude not to put some effort into respecting basic spelling and grammar, especially by those of us who aren't native English speakers and had to learn all that stuff the hard way.
 
I like the third one. The other 2 are way overdone.

But why would Babe Ruth run for President? He had no interest in politics, was a womanizer, had horrible health, and liked FDR. And there's no way he could have won in 1932 on, as he was German. He made more money playing baseball anyway.

The only reasonable POD would be when he was attending Catholic school, and instead of being aroused by baseball, he was intrigued by government. That'd be pretty tough.


Read my Babe Ruth TL.
 
I wholly second this advice. There is obviously a disconnect between what you think you know, and what you actually know. The solution is to read, do some research (using serious sources), and only then to start writing.

There's no shame in not being knowledgeable on a given topic. Every one of us started out ignorant. The problem is when you mistakenly believe you're knowledgeable when in fact you aren't.

Keep in mind that the main discussion forums, the ones that actually deal with alternate history, are subject to stricter rules than SW. People here post TLs that require a lot of prior research and intellectual effort, and disregard for plausibility is liable to attract criticism. It's also considered rude not to put some effort into respecting basic spelling and grammar, especially by those of us who aren't native English speakers and had to learn all that stuff the hard way.


Well Im definatly not the most knowledgeable on History, but ive always been better at 19th, 20th, and 21st century stuff, so I would do better with that, and im not a Military Guru, but I try, and ive been trying to improve my grammar and spelling.

I think ive done 3 TL's, nobody really read them :(
 
I've got a few ideas for a TL you coule do.
Kosygin, not Brezhnev is leader of the Soviet Union, which leads to a reformed Soviet Union earlier in the cold war.

Trotsky takes over after Lenin dies.
Instead of being excuted, many of the July 20 plot leaders survive somehow, and become part of the West German governments after the end of World War 2.

What do you think of those?
 
I've got a few ideas for a TL you coule do.
Kosygin, not Brezhnev is leader of the Soviet Union, which leads to a reformed Soviet Union earlier in the cold war.

Trotsky takes over after Lenin dies.
Instead of being excuted, many of the July 20 plot leaders survive somehow, and become part of the West German governments after the end of World War 2.

What do you think of those?


I might do one of those later, espessicly the last one, thinking about Rommell possibly surviving, and taking over the West German goverment, for example.
 
So many things wrong with that Babe Ruth timeline, so many. I don't like being like this, but that is not Babe Ruth at all. I have to agree with the other posters. Ruth supported FDR, he was a wet Democrat, who broke all the rules during Prohibition.

And he and Lou weren't that friendly, they were better than Jeter-A-Rod, but not at the Jeter-Jorge-Mariano-Pettite level.

Please, go read some actual Babe Ruth books. There are plenty of good ones. Your article makes him look like a Gary-Stu.
 
So many things wrong with that Babe Ruth timeline, so many. I don't like being like this, but that is not Babe Ruth at all. I have to agree with the other posters. Ruth supported FDR, he was a wet Democrat, who broke all the rules during Prohibition.

And he and Lou weren't that friendly, they were better than Jeter-A-Rod, but not at the Jeter-Jorge-Mariano-Pettite level.

Please, go read some actual Babe Ruth books. There are plenty of good ones. Your article makes him look like a Gary-Stu.


Ive come to learn some of those facts, but I did suspend reality a bit for it, I had always thought Lou and Babe were the best of friends, so I wrote it that way, and I couldn't have Babe run for the Democrats, so I came up with a way for him to run under the Republican ticket.
 
Ive come to learn some of those facts, but I did suspend reality a bit for it, I had always thought Lou and Babe were the best of friends, so I wrote it that way, and I couldn't have Babe run for the Democrats, so I came up with a way for him to run under the Republican ticket.

Suspend reality for A BIT?

Normally, I wouldn't get so hyped up, but this is Babe Ruth we're talking about. He was a wet Democrat from the east coast, there's no way he could have won on a Republican Ticket, let alone run on a GOP ticket.
 
@Unholy Mistress: Actually, what I had in mind was for the plotters to somehow defect at some point, and return to West Germany later after the War ends. Maybe Witzleben or Stauffenberg could be defence minister, and Goederler could be in finance.
 
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