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  1. Wooden Walls (challenge)

    Using a POD any time after 1800, keep wooden sailing ships the standard of transportation and warfare for as long as possible (OTL steam-warships appeared in the 1820s and became widespread by the 1850s, and it was from 1860-65 that warships 'turned the corner'--any pre-1860 ship could stand up...

  2. Sultan Selim Unchains His Guns (Chaldiran, 1514)

    In 1514, Sultan Selim the Grim of the Ottoman Empire was troubled. Shi'ite heretics were recruiting Turks from the heartland of his realm, Anatolia, to serve the charismatic leader of the Safi sufi cult, Ismail, who from his realm of Azerbaijan was attempting to carve out a state encompassing...

  3. A Draw at Poitiers (732)...

    POD: 732 AD; Battle of Poitiers is a stalemate 757 AD; Caliph Marwan of Cordoba dies, Abd Al'Rahman assumes power (with concomitant return to the consensus Caliphal choosing process) _________________________________________________________________ 732 AD; 110 AH On the sixth day, food...

  4. Years of Rice and Salt Questions

    1) War of the Asuras: How could it last 70 years without anyone developing tanks? Also: Trench warfare all across Asia--that seems somewhat unreasonable, to have that many troops initially, to be able to hold a line that big on either side. Plus, they can't have had sufficient railroads in...

  5. Baseball Alternate History: 1994

    What if there was no strike in 1994? A few things I can think of: Montreal probably winning the World Series and thus perhaps not breaking up and sucking Without the need to win back fan support, no wave of new stadiums with short fences and no juiced ball

  6. No Switzerland

    What if the Swiss Confederation failed to form in 1291, was defeated by Austria in the early 1300s, or fell apart in 1404? Austria would have retained the forest cantons and the eastern end. What would have happened to the rest of it, and how would the absence of Switzerland change European...

  7. Alternate Gender Challenge

    What if various historical characters were of different gender? Say, Henry VIII. Would Henrietta Tudor still come to the throne, and would she also start the Anglican Church to divorce her husband? Augustus. Empress Octavia Augusta, or spurned wife of Marcus Antonius? Or both, or...

  8. Worst Mistakes by Otherwise Competent Generals

    In keeping with the over/underrated threads and the best/worst threads... What are the worst mistakes by otherwise competent generals? Napoleon--Russian campaign. 'Nuf said. He made other mistakes but those were political ones. JEB Stuart--Not being at Gettysburg. Had he been...

  9. Ottoman Empire survives WWI

    An alternate history in which the Ottoman Empire survives...well, as far as is plausible: August 1914: Recognizing the vital need to supply Russia, Winston Churchill allows the two Turkish battleships being constructed in England to sail to Istanbul, along with an embassy urging neutrality...
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