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  1. AH Vignette: The Beautiful Game

    Thanks UM! That was what I was going for - this TL is one of those second-order jobbies (150 years of divergence and Gary Lineker is still best known for advertising crisps). It's a slightly more utopian world than OTL - a narrowly averted American Civil War was the initial POD. I was also...

  2. AH Vignette: “The Slow Tube”

    Damn, the Tube's gone down the tubes. Good stuff Roem, showing us what might have been had the lurch to road transport gone even harder after the war. I wonder, would British car manufacturing have prospered more had public transport been less popular?

  3. AH Vignette: The Beautiful Game

    One of the regular punters gave the barman a nod as he chugged his lager. “Turn it up mate, the Germans are on!” *** (inaudible) Well there lies the big question... (inaudible) … They have a wily old manager... (inaudible) Bit of a lack of resilience, this Brazil side, at times? The BBC’s...

  4. OTL Election maps resources thread

    Aha! Good stuff. Thande, and thanks for the link. A bit more green than I had imagined - Plaid's local machine must be working well these days on the island (their support correlates somewhat with the Welsh language). The canolbarth (the large landlocked chunk, which includes Llangefni, seat of...

  5. OTL Election maps resources thread

    ... so I'm not the only one who would have liked to have seen a ward breakdown of my home county of Anglesey (hi Analytical Engine, where are you from?). As a Parliamentary constituency Anglesey has been a battleground between Labour and Plaid Cymru since the 90s (Ieuan Wyn Jones, former leader...

  6. Map Thread XII

    Love it, both the ATL and the image. I like how you've used the old Welsh counties for what in OTL were essentially the last of the "lost lands" (the literal translation of Welsh's name for England, "Lloegr") - Caerlleon, Pengwern and Ergyng. Just a note on some of the county names -...

  7. Could the Nazis conquer America

    With a PoD in the 30s? Sure, why not. Oh, the 1930s, not the 1830s. Nah. The OP's hypothesis is technically conceivable if the entire industrial capacity of Europe and Asia circa 1943 is thrown towards this goal (under some nebulous and entirely ASB Nazi-run world government) but when the...

  8. Map of the Fortnight: Main thread

    ALL ABOARD Like that, see?

  9. MotF 63: Those Strange Tongues - Voting thread

    Early days yet but Ares96 is owning the medal table... oh yeah, maps. Bloody good work from the lot of you.

  10. MotF 62: Let Us Not Be Deceived - Voting thread

    Well done to all entrants. Especially Martin, because, well... phwoar, nice map. Honourable mention to Kaiphranos for his inventive take on ideologies... and rvbomally for yet another intriguing and believable parallel universe.

  11. MotF 57: My Name is Ozymandias - Voting thread

    Martin23230 got my vote this round. Just. Well done to all the entries. I loved them all - Kaiphranos's entry in particular made me laugh, "Molded-plasticware Culture" indeed!

  12. Map of the Fortnight: Main thread

    I can't believe my sports idea got used. Now you sneaky bastards have left me with but 48 hours to make a map. And I can barely use Paint, let alone Inkscape/GIMP. AAARGHHHHHHHHHHHH

  13. The Diamond Age

    Good book actually. Spiritual (if not actual)* sequel to Snow Crash, which I thought was a lot more fun although not necessarily higher in quality (it was madcap). Enjoyed the concept of phyles and Neo-Victorian technopunk, I will have to check out Stephenson's other works at some time or...

  14. Flag Thread III

    'S Hermann van Rompuy, innit. Yeah, I'm puzzled too.

  15. Map of the Fortnight: Main thread

    For the game, for the world Show a map of a sports competition in an alternate universe. The league may be of an existing sport, or of a sport that developed differently from OTL. Examples include a successful league in a country not known for success in the sport in OTL, the alternative...

  16. Map of the Fortnight: Main thread

    Have we ever done a sports-related challenge? I would love to try my hand at a challenge involving an alternate historical development of a sport. Such as an "alternate soccer" map of the US, where the NASL flourished and became a top-tier league alongside the European and South American leagues.

  17. A Bigger United States

    Is it possible for the United States to be larger than OTL, given a POD after 1900? Where would the most likely avenues for post-1900 American expansion be? Would this added land (and possibly peoples) be incorporated as extra states, or just territories? Who would be disadvantaged by...

  18. MotF 33: The Pilgrimage - Voting thread

    Agreed. Good entries here, and good call extending the deadline by a week, Mr. Krall. I voted for Big Tex as it was a good twist on the idea of a pilgrimage, plus Muslim president of USA = nice AH. Good luck to all the contestants!

  19. AHC: Break the Old Firm's dominance

    Hahaha, rich Russian taking over a club in the late 80s, that's a good one. Although nowadays... An Edinburgh team's your best bet - Glasgow's football market is already dominated and highly polarised by Celtic and Rangers. Beef up both Hearts and Hibernian, a "New Firm" sort of thing, and...

  20. MotF 31: All You Can Annex Buffet - Voting thread

    Nymain1, definitely. He technically disobeyed The Rules™ but his map was of very high quality. Plus, it was quite well-researched!
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