WI Slavic migration instead of Germanic migrations

Greetings once again fellow board-members.

I just had an idea. We are all aware of the Germanic migrations that ultimately destroyed Rome right? Soon, those different groups of people established their own nations out of Rome's remains (eg. The Frankish and Visigothic Kingdoms).

Just imagine if instead of Germans, it was the Slavic people? If so, which peoples would establish different kingdoms and where?
 
Not certain of this, but frequently migrations are caused by some outside stimulus, such as another migration that is pushing out of their previous homeland.

Group A moves out of their territory because of bad grazing or harvests and forces group B to escape to the territory of group C who flees to the country of group D who...group M who sacks Rome.

Who made the Germanic tribes migrate and who would make the Slavs migrate?
 
You couldn't have a Slavic migration without having Germanic people moving, because they were right on the way.

Furthermore, while Germanic peoples more or less entered into an ethnogenesis (even if it would be achieved really only by entering in Romania) thanks to a lasting contact with Rome, Slavic peoples were a bit too unorganized and differencied to launch people migration to speak of.
Even if Proto-Slavs migrated (actually, they most probably did, assimilated within germanic, turkic or iranian peoples migrations), they would be assimilated quite quickly.

Who made the Germanic tribes migrate and who would make the Slavs migrate?
What made Germans, Iranian and Turkic peoples migrate would probably be a more fitting question : basically, climatic changes.
Super-droughts that forced steppe people to relocate in search for new lands, coastal changes leading to North Sea and Baltic people to move on.
After that, it was the pool game you described, each groups making the other moving.
 
the general outcome is that the best Pre-1900 equivalent to Sealion.

That's a pretty ridiculous assessment. Difficult and unlikely-yes. Impossible, no. I thought we came to the consensus that it was entirely possible, just not particularly likely.

Regardless, it's about the best POD you can get to fulfill the OP.
 
That's a pretty ridiculous assessment.
More ridiculous that Romans conquering in a row a wild region going from Rhine to Vistula (aka easily 1/3 if not half of their contemporary size) in a row, and expecting to hold it?

Impossible, no. I thought we came to the consensus that it was entirely possible, just not particularly likely.
Not reallt, the mass of "Roman Germania" threads usually ends with the possibility of a limited conquest, usually limited to Rhineland, North of Danube or Bohemia; but that Romans had neither manpower or interest going deeper; and would have they, Germania (to quote BG) wasn't suitable for roman imperialism.
 
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