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  1. Chris Triangle

    The fate of Finland without WWI

    While there have been many discussions about what might happen to Finland if Sweden kept control of it, I have not been able find any threads dealing with the trajectory of the country under Russian rule in a scenario in which there is no great war to shake things up and open the door to...
  2. Chris Triangle

    Mediterranean Economy Without Roman Empire

    When people discuss AH scenarios without Rome as hegemon over all the Mediterranean, I wonder, with smaller empires and kingdoms ruling over the same domains, would the economies of these nations be weaker or stronger? Though there could be fewer taxes in some places there could be more in...
  3. Chris Triangle

    A Less Than Splendid Little War

    The Eagle and The Phoenix: A Less than Splendid Little War Introduction. (You can skip this if you want to get to the war) The Lead Up to the War Note: I plan to expand this to cover the Cuban revolution in more detail and edit it as needed. The war itself is often regarded to have begun...
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    What do you think should have been built differently and/or not at all?

    So I saw Kernals12's thread about projects we would like to see and it got me thinking about something: we rarely address that which we might have refrained from building. For this reason, I wanted to start a thread about about buildings and projects that we can look back on and wonder if we...
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    Could Another Egyptian Dynasty Have Arisen Without Alexander?

    From the time of the Assyrian conquest to the Ptolemaic dynasty, Egypt had struggled repeatedly and ultimately unsuccessfully to throw off rule by strong Eastern empires. When Persian Emperor Artaxerxes III Conquered Egypt again and removed the famous last native Egyptian Pharoah, Nectanebo II...
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    Direction of German Aviation after Victory in WWI?

    I've been meaning to post this for a while. As we all know, the German aviation industry, though competitive in the early 20th century, was badly crippled after the war. Its military aspect had to be totally rebuilt decades later and when it was, it was done so with the Nazi's goals in mind...
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    AH Brands and Companies

    A thread to speculate at the brands and corporations that might come to exist and prosper in ATLs. It's interesting to imagine what sort of major companies might have grown up in the CSA to compete with rival US ones or to speculate on what industries German and Austrian firms might have...
  8. Chris Triangle

    The Fate of the Spanish East Indies in the early 20th Century

    I have noticed that it a lot of people on this site seem to hold the view that if the USA had not seized the Philippines, the Spanish would sell these possessions to Germany or lose them in a war with Japan. Is this really the most likely scenario? I know that Germany was interested in some...
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    What does the High Seas fleet do if Britain stays neutral?

    Inspired by the thread about Germany holding back from Belgium and France, I began to wonder if the Kaiser's fleet would adopt a defensive strategy or engage the French and Russians more directly in some way. Sailing through the channel would provoke Britain and even going through the North sea...
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    How Early Could Photography Have Been Invented?

    Given the right inventor with the right inclinations and ideas, could primitive photography techniques have come into existence decades or even centuries before the Daguerrotype did OTL? Could we have had photographs of people like George Washington or Napoleon?
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    How much territory would Germany and Austria Hungary take?

    In most maps of a central powers victory, there is at least one very extreme annexation by one of these powers. The most common are: For Germany: -A large area of France near Alsace Lorraine (roughly doubling that province in size) and sometimes also the area of Northern France near Belgium...
  12. Chris Triangle

    Technologies and Products that Might Have Been More Successful

    Some ideas never quite caught on, other, existing ones, were needlessly dropped in favor of flashier new ones and others were never even properly tried. Which ideas do you think could and should have done better?
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    Could Cuba have gained independence earlier?

    Is it possible that Cuba might have managed to secure its independence before the 19th Century and without a US (or Confederate) invasion?
  14. Chris Triangle

    The Successor to the A6M?

    Though it seems that it had been considered, the IJN never really managed to put out a good successor to the A6M that adressed its flaws. Assumning a reasonably high degree of success and luck for the navy's carrier aviation early in the war (thereby buying a little extra time to prepare), or a...
  15. Chris Triangle

    Could Russia have knocked Austria-HUngary out of WWI?

    From what I understand, there was a point in the war at which the Russian offensives nearly broke Austria-Hungary. Was it at all possible for Russia to inflict a sufficiently disastrous defeat on the Austro-Hungarians that the empire would either break up or require even more direct German...
  16. Chris Triangle

    More Successful Soviet Bombing in Finland

    The Red Air Force was cut to pieces during the winter war by Finland's rag tag assortment of fighters. Their attempt at strategic bombing on Helsinki was a total failure and managed only minimal damage despite employing a huge number of bombers. This is really incredibly surprising given that...
  17. Chris Triangle

    More Successful Auto Companies

    Give your opinion on automakers and marques that you think could have done better and how they could have done it.
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    Standard Gauge: Was it a Mistake?

    Not being an engineer, it's hard for me to say exactly what the ideal track width is for railroads, especially since the answer can be different for different lines. Still, the majority of the world's railway network ended up with a gauge of only 4' 8.5" (~1435mm) - narrower than the wheel...
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    Worst Possible Natural Disaster in the US

    In your answer, Please Exclude: 1.a Yellowstone Supervolcano eruption 2. a giant super-tsunami from a La Palma eruption, 3. a meteor/comet impact a gamma ray burst or any other cosmic cataclysm. These things are scary for sure but they're a bit cliche. (Besides, this topic is grim enough...
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    Silicon Island

    I was thinking about how there's always supposed to be "a new silicon valley" somewhere but it never really seems to materialize. What if Silicon Valley had arisen not in California but in New York. -Or perhaps in Boston, DC or Chicago? All of these places have certain potential to support tech...
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