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  1. AHC: More Nations with the Bomb

    Since the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, a total of nine nations (United States, Soviet Union/Russia, Great Britain, France, the PRC, India, Pakistan, the DPRK & Israel) currently has a stockpile of nuclear weapons as well as several former nuclear owning powers (Belarus, Kazakhstan...

  2. Pagan Reformation: Plausible or Not?

    Okay, I've been playing the Old Gods DLC for Crusader Kings II and I was quite enamored with the idea of playing as pagan religions and trying to destroy England (because killing Anglo-Saxons is fun in that game.) But one thing that interests me was the concept of transforming or reforming the...

  3. Más Allá: The Revival of España

    Prologue: The Birth 1771-1774 Europe It has only nearly a decade since the end of the Seven Years War, brought about by the various treaties signed all across Europe. On paper, Europe had changed little since Prussia’s King Frederick II, known as Friedrich the Great, conquered Silesia from its...

  4. AHC: Hohenzollern Mexico

    Okay, let's throw down an interesting challenge here. With a PoD from 1850 (the annexation of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern-Hechingen to Prussia) onwards, have a member of the Catholic Swabian branch of the Hohenzollern House (Sigmaringen or Hechngen) become Emperor of Mexico. Bonus...

  5. Optimal Post-GW Peace for CP Victory.

    One of the things that got me interested in Alt-History in General was the idea of Germany and it's allies winning the Great War, otherwise known as World War I. (That I blame the Kaiserreich mod for.) However I dunno how realistic KR is when it comes to the Great War Peace settlement. So this...

  6. Is it possible for England to win the Lancastrian Phase of the HYW

    The Hundred Years War, as we all know, was a 116-year conflict fought between the House of Plantagenet (and later its cadet branch, the House of Lancaster) against the House of Valois for the claim to the French throne. Now there a lot of reasons why the French won out in the end. (Stiff French...

  7. What could the Seljuks do differently to win at Kose Dag?

    The Seljuk Sultanate of Rum was one of the many successor states to the long disestablished Seljuk Empire. In its history, it was able to force the Byzantines (briefly) from Anatolia, and harry the Crusader Kingdoms in Outremer. But for all the opponents they have faced, they were overcome by...

  8. WI: Marinids & Nasrids win the Battle of Rio Salado?

    The Marinids, under the Sultan Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman invaded the Iberian Peninsula in 1333 in the defense of the Emir of Granada, Muhammad IV, (though a few sources, one of which may or may not be Wikipedia, say he sought to reverse the Christian gains of the Reconquista since the...

  9. Did any of the Andalusian taifas have a sizeable chance for retaining independence?

    After the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba of 1031, its territory was divided into as many as almost 3 dozen petty Kingdoms known as Taifas, many of them weaker than the Christian Kingdoms to the North (in particular the Kingdoms of Castile and Leon, who combined conquered most of...

  10. WI: Grand National Assembly loses Turkish War of Independence

    Almost immediately after World War I, the Turks fought a war against the occupying powers of (among the chief powers France, Armenia & Greece) in order to overturn the Treaty of Sevres, which would have potentially Balkanized Turkish Anatolia and Thrace between Greece, Armenia, Kurdistan and a...

  11. TL Question: Colombian-Ecuadorian War

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian-Colombian_War Okay, I'm currently working on a few chapters to end the hiatus for my TL, and I need a question answered pertaining to Colombia and Ecuador. To take into consideration, I've managed to avoid the Colombian Civil War, by letting cooler...

  12. WI: James IV survives Flodden Field

    The Battle of Flodden Field on September 9, 1513 was one of many conflicts fought between England and Scotland prior to the personal union in 1603. It was also the conflict where James IV would die in the field of battle. But what if James and at least some of the nobles who took part in the...

  13. AHC: Surviving Don Republic

    Your challenge should you choose to accept. Have the Don Republic, A White aligned Cossack State along the border with the Ukraine, survive to at least the end of the 20th century.

  14. Carlist Victory TL Ideas

    Now, I've actually gotten the inspiration to write up another timeline (though by no means I have forgotten about "The Empire Means Peace" which is on a hiatus...but I digress... I've taken inspiration from a TL written on the subject some six years ago or so. (Link here...

  15. AHC: Survival of the Almoravid Empire

    The Almoravid Empire was a powerful state during the Middle Ages, credited, among other things, for saving Southern Spain from the Catholic Kingdoms to the north, as well as destroying the almighty Ghana Empire. However, the Almoravids fell not to invading Christians, but to revolts by the...

  16. AHC: Surviving Kingdom/Sultanate of Mysore

    The Kingdom of Mysore was one of the memorable independent polities in India, starting at first, as a vassal of the Vijayanagaran Empire until its collapse in 1565, then as an independent state until becoming a vassal of the British East India Company, and later the British Raj until 1799 until...

  17. WI: A King for Hungary

    Following the defeat of Austria-Hungary and the restoration of Hungary as a sovereign and independent state, Hungary was under the rule of a regency under Miklos Horthy. While there were attempts by King Charles IV (Charles I of Austria-Hungary) to reclaim control of Hungary (which failed only...

  18. In the event of the Spanish Armada succeeding...

    The Spanish Armada, the Spanish fleet sent to England in order to get an army on the ground and depose (and most likely execute) Queen Elizabeth I, was defeated near the Dutch city of Gravelines, and successfully prevented an English invasion... ...But what if the Spanish invasion of England...

  19. AHC: Divided Anatolia

    Since the collapse of the Sultanate of Rum in the 14th century, and all the way up until around the final conquest of the Mamaluk Sultanate of Cairo, the region of Anatolia was divided between various Turkish Beyliks, the two most powerful being the Karamanids and the even more powerful...

  20. WI: Wladislaus became Tsar of Russia

    During the Russian Time of Troubles (and the subsequent Polish-Muscovite War), several Pro-Polish Russian Boyars supported the rise of Wladislaus Vasa (the future King/Grand Duke Wladislaus IV of Poland-Lithuania). However his father, Sigismund III (who was at the time King of Poland-Lithuania)...
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