Well... after nearly a couple months of yet another hiatus, I'm going to officially put this aside for a while - I'll probably either continue this at some point in the future, or start a fourth Hannibal timeline in a while (probably depends on how different the whole thing would be if/when I revise it), but for the time being I think I might try a new project. Apologies to those of you that have liked the thread, especially because I've really enjoyed a lot of the discussions on here and I've learned an absolute
ton of stuff through this thread on Carthage and the ancient world, but I just haven't had a whole lot of interest/motivation to work on this TL like I have had for a couple other ideas I might try, and don't think it's fair to keep you guys waiting for a while for something that's probably not going to happen for a good bit of time.
Now, while I'm making this announcement, I may as well attention whore some more, and ask you guys which of the two ideas you'd rather see me try - maybe it'll get some early advertising

- so here they are:
Alexander the Great TL - I've been doing a lot of reading on him recently, and so naturally my head goes to AH. Now, Alex has been a very used subject in AH - I know that - but I think I can make a fairly unique version. For starters, my PoD
isn't him surviving his disease or not getting it in Babylon June 323; instead, my PoD is probably going to be
Hephaestion's survival, which would butterfly Alex's death. For the stuff he does, well, I won't share all my ideas now, but I have a pretty solid plan of what will happen. Just know that Alexander will have plenty more campaigning, conquests, and executions (Hooray!) ITTL.
Croesus asks for Spartan assistance before invading Persia TL - Don't have a good name for this one yet; anyways, the idea is that Croesus decides before invading Persia to have the Spartans send an army to bolster their chances of fulfilling Croesus' interpretation of Delphi's prophecy. This of course stops Persia's rise to power, which keeps powers such as Babylon and Egypt still independent, which I think would be interesting. Also, Greece will be changed fairly drastically too due to this, as Sparta gains a really powerful overseas friend during the early years of its OTL rise to preeminence over the Peloponnese. I don't have a lot of the more in depth details decided on yet, so the Alexander TL is probably a lot safer of a thought in that regard, but I think this is amongst my more original ideas and I'm fairly proud of it.
Thoughts? Just looking for a couple quick responses to tell me which you all are more interested in and if I have any gaping holes in my logic. If you've got an opinion or something and don't want to post publicly just PM me and I'd be excited to talk to you on your thoughts, so that you could expose me as the n00b I truly am.



Again, I do plan on eventually resurrecting Xamm Anim in some form, whether it's a fourth version or if I continue this thread right as though I never stopped, just not for a while.