Recent content by FelixMansbridge

Has anyone informed you that the images on the archived version of "Age of Miracles" have gone bust?

The most interesting result of something like this would probably be the Rebels resisting just hard enough to force a settlement without being quite strong enough to declare independence. Maybe something along the lines of the later dominions (which would pretty much give the Americans what...

My mistake.

For something silly and romantic, you could have Billy Bastard not get lucky with that stray arrow hitting Harold in the eye. By most accounts I've heard and read, Harold had completely outmaneuvered the Normans and had the Battle of Hastings in the bag. I mean, even after he got shot, the...

Which is why Caesar becoming de-facto ruler of Rome needs to be legal. Legitimacy is the key here. The legal issue is what I'm struggling with. See, Caesar crossing the Rubicon with his army wasn't just an informal declaration of intent, it was actually illegal. With that in mind, the issue I...

Actually, saving the republic isn't what I had in mind. You see, I tend to agree with the idea that the republic was already dead by the time of Caesar's first consulship. No, what I had in mind was to diminish the precedent that the way to get the top job is through force. The eventual goal...

I've got an idea buzzing around in my head for a possible Late Republic scenario that I am certain is at least highly implausible and possibly outright impossible (my gut instinct is that this can't work). However, before I drop the issue, I wanted to run it by a few people in case I missed...

Well, in my defense, my silly timeline was a deliberate attempt to make Caesar dying in Gaul at least comparable to OTL in terms of how interesting the next 100 odd years would be. I realize it was hardly rigorous, but I would't have thought all that much blind Roman jingoism had crept into it...

This is improbable that it borders on ASB, but it seems to me that the easiest way of doing this would be to have Britain stay neutral during the war.

Honestly, I tend to be skeptical of accusations that Caesar will have been either deliberately deceitful or even outright lying in his accounts, if only because that would have been rather uncharacteristic of him. This is a man who refused to obfuscate his intent and actions to the point where...

What? I'm not accusing you of any wrongdoing, I was just getting the impression that you genuinely didn't think much of the premise. Which would make sense, because the premise is silly. If I caused offense, then I apologize. Listen, I'm not about to attack someone for finding fault with...

I take that you are less than fond of Caesar. It's just that you seem to systematically adopt the worst possible interpretation of his actions. Mind you, I fully acknowledge that I (for the most part) do the opposite, but I'm beginning to suspect that you just don't like the idea. Which is...

I'm apparently still stuck on this idea So, I've been thinking about a more plausible aftermath to Caesar dying from that stroke after defeating Genseric's army. I've alluded to it before but, with Caesar no longer being alive to cause trouble and given how popular a figure he is likely to be...

I'm not sure how true that is, but I'm not particularly attached to that part, so I'm perfectly willing to jettison it. Like I said earlier, I wrote the scenario in one burst, so most of it is going to, at the very least, need a lot of tweaking. EDIT: I feel that I should probably mention that...

Alternate Proposal It occurs to me that I can solve all those problems by having the second conquest happen due to events taking place while Caesar is on his way back to Rome. Yes, that way, the conquest of Gaul is as close to secure as it's going to be in this quite narrow time frame...