Islamic occupation of England?I could understand if you said France or Spain, but England? I can only name two timelines offhand that have that. In fact I can't even name them, I just remember there were two.
Oh, and as for airships, if you have no opposing air-force, they could work very well as bombers. Colonial policing, maybe? They have a better range and load for flattening African villages than an airplane does.
Islamic occupied Spain is OTL. Did you mean Italy?
Unfortunately, he is probably right ultimately. Rigid airships were hit with an awful lot of early bad luck which never allowed them to become much more than "one-of" experiments. However, you have to come up with a pretty unlikely PoD to have airships survive much past the 1940's no matter what. I would also argue about the safety record. Out of all the rigid airships built or used in the post WWI period at least half crashed in a few years or were severely damaged in crashes so badly that they were never repaired (R-34, R-38, R-101, ZR-1, ZRS4, ZRS5, Dixmude). Many others flew so infrequently that it is hard to say what would have happened to them over the long haul. Arguably, of all the zeppelins ever built after WW1, only Graf Zeppelin and Los Angeles could really be considered unqualified successes.
My suggested over-used cliche is one word: GERMANY. As in nazi supeweapons, wiemar survival, wilhelmine victory, and....zeppelins![]()
That's because the Mongols are the only ones people have heard of (including meBut to mention some underused things: just about anything in Central Asia exept for the Mongols tends to be underused, and the same goes for just about anything in the Caucasus and the steppes of southern Russia...(which reminds me: is there something like a Sarmatianwank or at least a TL or scenario with the focus on the Sarmatians on this site?)
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Re your other points. Not sure about Australia. It does seem like whichever power gets the New South Wales area would end up being recognised as master of the whole continent, at least if the circumstances were similar to OTL (big war in Europe distracting everyone). If it was partitioned in peacetime (I remember a TL where Indonesian missionaries spread to Australia in the 800s and made the Aborigines Muslim, and Australia was partitioned by the Europeans in the late 1800s as 'more Africa') maybe there'd be more than one colonial power.
Sahara - agree.
I thought you would,As someone who lives in West Australia, I humbly disagree with your statement about the importance of New South Wales![]()
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That's because the Mongols are the only ones people have heard of (including me).
Offhand the only unusual use of Central Asia I can think of is in The Peshawar Lancers, which is hardly the most realistic portrayal.
What WIs would you recommend, then? How about an earlier unified Kazakh state?
That's because the Mongols are the only ones people have heard of (including me).
Offhand the only unusual use of Central Asia I can think of is in The Peshawar Lancers, which is hardly the most realistic portrayal.
What WIs would you recommend, then? How about an earlier unified Kazakh state?
Well, about Central Asia, well there are some interesting possebilities, like WIs involving cities/peoples like Chorezm, Bukhara,
the Sogdians, the Bactrians, the Khitans, the Uyghurs and especially the Tocharians...
And any WI involving a more prominent role for the Sarmatians would some change of the invasion of the Huns, resulting in either the Sarmatians sticking around as a strong people in some part of Europe (the Panonnian planes are a likely location, but there are other possebilities as well), or alternatively resulting in the Huns being fought off in Eastern Europe or not invading in the first place, which would mean that the steppes of southern Russia remain dominated by Iranian nomads instead of becoming dominated by Turkic nomads and Russian settlers.
...and by the way; any scenario in which the Huns fail to enter Eastern Europe, will as a side-effect also have that the Goths remain in the area of Ukraine-Romania-southern Russia, which would propably have significant effects on the development of Europe as well...
PS: there's also an interesting possebility for having the Sassanid Empire being overrun by Turkish nomads in the 7th century.
Well, Flocculencio's Al-Anglia was one TL that featured an Islamic England, but I can't remember the other TL with this...