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  1. Henry VI killed at St. Albans (1455)

    While reading Dan Jones' The Wars of the Roses, I stumbled across something that I thought was interesting (emphasis mine): This begs the question, what if Henry actually did die at St. Albans? His son, Edward of Westminster, was about a year and a half old. I'll save my thoughts on the...

  2. What if LBJ declined the Vice Presidential Nomination?

    I had a friend of mine read Robert Caro's Passage of Power in his LBJ series, and he's at the part of the 1960 DNC, Kennedy's offer to LBJ, and Johnson quickly snatching up the vice presidential nomination. So we were discussing a little bit about how the '60s and politics thereafter might have...

  3. The Thunderers: A Carthage Timeline

    THE THUNDERERS: A CARTHAGE TIMELINE . “I will either find a way, or make one.” – Roman proverb, often ascribed to Hannibal Barca .

  4. What should Hannibal have done after Cannae?

    One of the main criticisms of Hannibal's strategy in the Second Punic War is that he didn't choose to march on Rome after winning his greatest victory at Cannae, decimating a Roman army of 80,000 men. According to Livy, Hannibal's lieutenant Maharbal was in strong disagreement to Hannibal's...

  5. Persian Victory at Salamis and Subsequent Conquest of Greece

    We've had this discussion before, I know - I've participated. However I feel like it can be good to rehash debate if it's been a while since the last time it's been brought up, which in this case I think it has. New members, new opinions and all of that. I have my own opinions but I'm...

  6. Andrew Jackson 1824

    Say Crawford has his stroke a year earlier, so he doesn't even run, and nearly all of his electoral votes go to Jackson instead giving Jackson a majority. What does an earlier presidency for Andrew Jackson look like? Does this change what the Second Party System was like in the US?

  7. Successful French invasion of Great Britain 1744

    In February 1744 a French fleet that was intended to carry around 10,000 or so men under Maurice de Saxe from Dunkirk to Maldon was destroyed. It was intended that this army could quickly defeat the small British force protecting London and force the British into accepting a Jacobite...

  8. Alexander dies at Multan

    This is an interesting scenario that I'm surprised isn't brought up more often - Alexander dying earlier is occasionally brought up, but it's always on the Granicus or even just prior to Issus rather than here. I've thought a little bit about making one of those short "timeline in a day" things...

  9. What if Ptolemy IV was assassinated prior to Raphia?

    While the armies of Antiochus III and Ptolemy IV were feeling each other out at Raphia, a former Ptolemaic officer under the name of Theodotus planned to murder Ptolemy IV. He went to the King's tent one night just before the battle, but found that Ptolemy was not there, and thus his plan was...

  10. The Campaigns of Alexander

    Two thousand three hundred and thirty-six years ago, Alexander the Great died in Babylon from a mysterious illness. Several months before his death, his closest friend (and probable lover) Hephaestion died in Ecbatana from a similar illness. This is a story of what might have happened had...

  11. Xamm Anim, version 4.0

    This is a redo of Xamm Anim (which means something like “The People of Wealth” in ancient Punic), and is my fourth try at a “Hannibal beats Rome” timeline. The previous incarnation can be found at this link. The specific point of divergence is that Hasdrubal Barca successfully manages to merge...

  12. What if Jason of Pherae wasn't assassinated?

    Jason of Pherae was essentially King of Thessaly, and showed signs of being a Philip around twelve years before Philip became the King of Macedonia. He had a mercenary army coupled with his Thessalian cavalry to make one of the most powerful armies in Greece. He showed interest in unifying the...

  13. Unified Gaul: How to do it, what does it look like, and what is its potential?

    This is something I've wanted to discuss for a while. As the title suggests, this thread is completely devoted to the idea of a Unified Gaul during the Classical Period. My first main question is the obvious one - how do we unify the Gauls (and it has to be just Gauls/Celtae, at least...

  14. Tyler killed in USS Princeton Disaster of 1844

    On Feb 28, 1844, many important US officials - including President Tyler - were aboard the USS Princeton, when the gun the Peacemaker exploded, killing the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury and several others. So, what if Tyler had been killed in the explosion, alongside those...

  15. Hamilcar Barca lives longer

    To put it quite simply, what might have happened had Hamilcar Barca not died in battle in 228 BC?

  16. Spartan led Ionian Revolt?

    Aristagoras of Miletus, who was probably the key man behind the Ionian Revolt, first asked Cleomenes I of Sparta to help him - the Spartans denied him only because Persia was too far away for comfort, as Argos would be sure to take advantage of Sparta's armies being across the Aegean. Anyways...

  17. Alternate Great Greek States

    When people think of ancient Greece, they think of Athens and Sparta. But both of their rises and the whole Peloponnesian War showdown weren't inevitable, obviously - Athens pre-democracy wasn't nearly as great as Athens with democracy, Sparta was neutralized by Tegea for a long time, etc. So...

  18. AHC: Most powerful Sahara based state possible

    Placed in Before 1900 because I'm assuming a PoD before 1900 would need to occur to make this possible. As the title challenges, how can we get a strong-ish nation - the stronger the better - based in the modern Sahara Desert?

  19. Xamm Anim

    Otherwise known as my third, and hopefully final, version of Carthago Invicta. The title is in anglicized Punic, and roughly means in my guesstimated Punic ‘the nation of wealth’, which is here meant to be the Carthaginians. This version won’t be like the last one, which was basically a revised...

  20. A Chance at Redemption: A College Football Timeline

    Well, as some of you may or may not know, I’m a huge supporter of the University of Michigan, and I love college football. Pro football pales in comparison. With the hard times U-M has had as of recent (though, I will remind all of you, that this is really the first time since the decade before...
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