Alright so I've read a few stories about Napoleon on this here board but I'd like to compact all the fun possabilities you can come up with here in the thread. Appologies for the nonsensical name, it was only to get you here to read this.
Basically, I'm looking for PoDs specifically that would change the allegiance of Napoelon- essentially, making him fight for a country other then France. Perhaps I have the only two going here, but from what I've gathered there were two broad possabilities:
> He or his father had at one point expressed an interest in joining the Royal Navy. I know in Look to the West, Thande actually brings him to England, anglicizes his name and puts him out at sea.
> There is a chance he would've fought for Paoli, if Paoli had not come off as so terrible to Napoleon. I read in a book I found at the library that the two actually corresponded and Napoleon had sent Paoli a letter asking him to read over a History of Corsica he'd made and for historical documents to complete it. Paoli called the history amateurish and refused to hand over the documents. This upset Napoleon and drove him over to the Jacobin faction on his island; not that he might not have done it anyway but he certainly lost respect for the old man. Perhaps if Paoli had come across as more gentle or had offered the documents and simply remained neutral, Napoleon would've conscripted with the Corsicans and beaten the French off the island- or lost or whatever.
These are the two I've seen. I'd like to here more reasonable posabilites, and they can occur at anytime before he gets too involved with the French. Also, it'd be fun to play with his older brother surviving and taking his place (as in Look to the West) or perhaps his older brother surviving period and Napoleon being named something different and having the older brother..I dunno, lots of posabilities.
I wanted to play around with Napoleon uniting Italy but I'd like to see what else is out there.