The "Create-your-own-dream-TL" thread 2.0

Duke Albert Frederick's son William von Hohenzollern survives and marries Catherine of Sweden. He inherits Sweden after Cristina abdicates the throne. Later, have the Brandenburg branch of the Hohenzollerns die off, so the Hohenzollerns in Sweden inherit Brandenburg.
 
This is already a TL, Es Geloybte Aretz. Unless you were joking. It's impossible to tell when someone's being sarcastic in writing.
I never read that before, and now that I read the first parts it indeed seem to have a lot of similarities to what I had in mind for my TL. Maybe I better look for another topic, then. :(
 
Currently writing mine, and it is still basically in the set-up phase, so I'm pretty happy, all things considered. People! Write your dream-TLs, don't hold 'em in you!:D

Although, I am thinking about starting another one at a later date with the Tsar authorising Ivan Vitkevitch and the authorities in Central Asia to arm Dost Mohammad Khan and the Afghans.
 
The Italic League defeats the Romans in the Social War, but instead of getting citizenship, the Italics burn Rome to the ground and eventually all of Rome's conquest are taken over by locals.


Absoltuely ASB, I know.
 
A world divided by the Chinese and Roman Empires (and a few scores of minor powers).

Just imagine a Chinese dynasty with the global influence and military (land) power as powerful as the Tang dynasty, the level of technology and economy power of the Song and the scale of navy like during the Zheng He's voyage.
 
1) Fitna : The Ghost of Rome

Greek Fire doesn't make its way into Rhomanion arsenal, leading to a successful if hard won First Siege of Constantinople by Umayyad Caliphate. Little did anyone know that it'll make the later Hashimi-ajami revolution a much more painful tragedy of lasting trauma.

Featuring : Greek muslims, stronger Kharijism, briefly resurgent Manichaeism, somewhat stronger Oriental Christianity.

2) Victory the Victorious (Obviously tentative :p)

Almohads victorious at Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, ensuring the survival of Al Andalus. Possible interesting effects on the contemporarously on going Cathar Crusade.

3) There Can Only Be One Sun

The avoidance of the extremely detrimental Paregreg War by preventing Lasem affair. Civil War will still happen, but it will be one that ensure the supremacy of Trowulan Rajasas over entire Java, granting Majapahit indefinite survival. Scramble for spices will be VERY different.
 
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For reason, maybe a better leverage like some state still under their boots, the british manage to keep their forts south to the great lakes. The Province of quebec still exist (with less territory in the south than the original) and is populated with a mixe of french, native ( expelled from the indian territory) and metis.
 
One timeline that I would love to do (or see) but am currently hopelessly underinformed to do would be Hitler on Hard Difficulty. I haven't figured it out properly yet but it would probably have Hitler setting up the Nazis in Austria, rather than Bavaria, between 1919 and 1923, probably driven out on account of a successful Bavarian Socialist Republic. After taking power in Austria he would lead an invasion into Bavaria and 'liberate' it, but then annex it into Austria, creating a 'south Germany'. Hitler then takes a long, winding and intriguing diplomatic route to establishing a power base in central and eastern Europe, building up Austria's power in a long war with Italy in Yugoslavia. At the zenith of his power, he then invades Germany proper, which is currently under some heavy communist regime or something, before finally uniting it the whole thing under a single Germanic Reich achieved in an entirely different way. The exact final ideology would look very different and I have no idea what would happen after this point in the TL - whether there'd be a Holocaust or a new WWII or whatever - but that's the general idea of it so far.

I know it's heavily implausible and smacks of an RTS approach to conquest and politics, but I would love to see it as a timeline, and if I could ever figure out the detail and PODs needed to kick this into action, it would be a brilliant project.
 
Jerry Brown is elected president in 1980.

Notably, his candidate for vice president, Senator Edward Brooke, is not just a Republican, he is also African-American. The nation is inspired by this impressive new wave of history...

...and within several days of the election, a coalition of Turner Diaries-reading white supremacist top thugs call for a big gathering at a compound in Virginia, and attendees are asked to bring as many of their firearms as possible.

They swear up and down that they cannot stand by and let "a poster boy for miscegenation and urban so-called culture" be so close to the White House. The plan was for ten thousand soldiers of glory to storm the District of Columbia on inauguration day, capture and execute the elected national leaders "and their cabal of race traitors and communist scumbags and pederasts and homosexuals," and raze the city to the ground. Then of course Racial Holy War would have its head start, they could nuke NYC and LA, bla bla etc.

Through the end of December, waiting in vain for more soldiers for white glory to arrive at the compound for training, the coalition leaders defiantly claim that they could pull it off "with a mere couple thousand or so."

On inauguration day, several hundred of the most desperate self-deluded incompetently led f___-ups somehow miss the swearing-in ceremony and attempt to storm the presidential motorcade en route to the White House.

The decision to mount the attack from "several key points of infiltration" translates into the groups of uncoordinated thugs being tripped out of the box by armed-to-the-teeth psyched-up Secret Service agents, chased back into their "enhanced cover" starting points, trapped like filthy rats, and massacred.

Not a single bullet or shot or flaming arrow gets past the motorcade protective armor, and as the limos speed away, the surprised leaders and entourage barely get a glimpse of their would-be judges and executioners.

As dozens of the terrorists scramble in utter shock and terror for any way out, the secret service shooters track and kill anyone wearing camouflage or swastika armbands.

One of the very few civilian fatalities is an elderly black veteran in a three-piece suit. The gentleman, armed with his fastidiously maintained service Colt 1911 pistol, manages to kill --with head-shots-- seven or eight terrorists before the decapitated flying head of one of the racist thugs strikes the veteran on the back of his head, triggering a severe and ultimately fatal stroke. (The man is hailed as a hero, and his descendants will want for nothing.)

As a matter of prudence, the Brown administration declares a state of emergency...
 
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