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What's this then?

It's a timeline. About Napoleon. I'm going to write it in a week.

Of course you are. What happened to Lycuragus? Or a heartbeat away from greatness? And don't even get me started on you Israel focused TL? How about he alternate Romanovs? and when are you going to get back to you lost Vikings and actually try to publish it? and you do realize that there are some gamers who would like to see you plot out a plausible reimagining of twilight 2000 in the 1980s, right?

Not enough hard historical data, I'm folding it into the alternate Romanovs, same with mound of spring, I have the Romanovs plotted out but I want to write it as fastforward a literary klaidoscope rather than plod through the TL. And once I do I'll get back to the Vikings.

Aha. nothing about twilight, I notice. Right.... about this ADDITIONAL detour... how are you going to get it done in a week exactly?

By writing it as a TL, rather than a literary composition. no more than two posts for TL year, no more than three paragraphs per post.

A week?

Maybe two. no more. my word of honor.

And you think it will be any good? Aren't there already a number of long and well written Napoleon TLs?

There are. What I think they are missing is a plausible explanation which would divert Napoleon from his three greatest mistakes- mistakes which were pretty much embedded in his personality.

Three? I thought there were two. Spain and Russia.

Aha! so do most people. But that is because Napoleon rescued himself, if not his forces, from the consequences of his first greatest mistake. There were also two less serious errors which were completely avoidable, and a long term structural error which would have ripped his empire up in the long run even if he had defeated the British. He's going to avoid them as well.

So a Napleon wank? Another one?

Hopefully a plausible one. None of it depends on Napoleon having any great epiphany, just on having the luck of different timing- and it all flows from a single change of course.
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