As the author of the 'Peerless Air Ministry' TL I can totally understand the OP's problems with a lot of AH writing. I have found writing a plausible time line that is both interesting and historically credible very challenging. In fact I have had complete writers block for over three months, partly due to the fact that so many butterflies are flying (pun intended) from a simple POD that every outline I have written from late 1941 onwards is likely to cause howls of derision as being ASB, despite their inherent logic and grounding in historical context. Keeping to Mark Twain's Maxim, can put severe limits on a writers choices and at times can make a story less believable than one that has real live type 'left field' events. in real history implausible things do happen so having a few such events in an ATL is I think essential for a real feel to the history.
Getting this balance right is the difficult bit IMVHO.
Having the PAN TL held up as an example of a plausible ATL in the forum is very flattering thank you.
Getting this balance right is the difficult bit IMVHO.
Having the PAN TL held up as an example of a plausible ATL in the forum is very flattering thank you.