Recent content by Orko

I like the concept of a CP victory German nuclear project, I'm just not sure Einstein would willingly work on such a thing even though he'd still be in Germany ITTL.

I'm finding myself obsessed recently with the concept of a maximalist Napoleonic victory, complete French hegemony over Europe from Moscow to Lisbon. However, I can't really figure out how that could be achieved, and I would love it if people here who know more about military history can help me...

I was kinda wondering if one of Napoleon's sisters, Elisa or Pauline, could maybe be given a slice of the pie. Brandenburg if the Hohenzollerns are deposed, or maybe parts of the Habsburg empire to rule as their own kingdom. Caroline and Murat got Naples after all so why not.

The more I think of it, the more likely it seems that Austria wouldn't be partitioned (just seems impractical on all accounts) but just reduced in size. Not an original solution I know, but I guess there's no avoiding that. I think shaving off Galicia and the rest of Croatia and Carinthia seems...

I think it's worth mentioning that antisemitism (and any other form of persecution and discrimination, really) is a sociological, not theological, phenomenon. So it could really go either way with gnosticism, all depending on how it would become dominant and what sort of structures it would...

Any takers?

Assume that, following the failure of the invasion in Russia, a Sixth Coalition against Napoleon still forms, with Prussia and Austria among them. However Napoleon somehow manages to win anyway, say because more of the Grand Armee ends up surviving the campaign into Russia, nevermind how exactly...

As per the title. The disruptions caused by Napoleon directly led to the conditions for independence in both Spain's and Portugal's colonies in the Americas, despite there not really being a local independence movement in the colonies beforehand. However, both powers were on the decline, were...

A not-very-common-but-still-present AH trope is that following one or both of the World Wars, countries like Germany or Italy (depending on which side one in the ATL) which were not yet united until fairly recently in the 19th century, were re-split into their pre-unification constituent states...

The Kaiserreich lore is that essentially it's a Japanese client set up during the Russian Civil War by the Japanese expeditionary force occupying Vladivostok. ITTL that's how it remained.

The following scenario and maps are based on a game of Hearts of Iron IV: Kaiserreich I played recently, as the Ottoman Empire. It’s not 1:1 like how the game went, but the basic scenario begins with a Central Powers victory in WW1 a la the world of Kaiserreich. Full write-up below the cut, but...

So I'm aware that Napoleon planned to inherit his Kingdom of Italy to his second son, should he have one. The thing I'm interested is that, since the IOTL kingdom had strange borders - doesn't include regions such as Liguria, Lazio, Tuscany etc., which were annexed directly to France - would...

The Nazis sent a secret delegation to Palestine before the war to examine the possibility of collaboration with the Zionist movement. They could barely get anyone who was willing to talk to them and ended up concluding that Zionism is not compatible with Nazi Antisemitism.

Say that they 1913 coup, which brought the Three Pashas to power in Constantinople, had failed or never attempted. And that otherwise all other international affairs concerning the Ottoman Empire between Jan. 1913 and Oct. 1914 (outcomes of the two Balkan Wars, Goeben and Breslau affair etc.)...

An interesting butterfly here is the effect of no beer hall Putsch (which very consciously tried to imitate Mussolini's march on Rome). No beer hall putsch -> no Hitler in prison -> no notoriety for Hitler early on in his career, also no\different Mein Kampf...