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  1. How could Caesar survive his assassination attempt?

    Caesar would have known people wanted him dead, he fought a war against much of the Senate and their supporters. He simply got careless the day he was assassinated - when Marc Antony put the crown on his head, when he moved his unpopular mistress to Rome. Those should have been glaring warning...

  2. Wi Brazil join the falklands war

    The Brazilian economy collapses as the fragile foreign investment takes fright and flees. At the time, Brazil's debt as running at very unsustainable levels and had to be bailed out by the IMF who imposed very strict controls on the Brazilian economy.

  3. WI: Saddam Hussein wins the Iran-Iraq War

    USSR arms Iran in time for round 2 in exchange for a free hand in Afghanistan.

  4. Soviets win Cold War

    I do it all the time in Twilight Struggle. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but I'm not sure it's possible with Stalin alive from 1945-1953. If I were in charge of the USSR, I wouldn't have blockaded Berlin, nor would I have sought harsh reprisals against Germany. I'd have tried the "hearts...

  5. TL 191: Entene victory in First Great War

    I’ve been re-reading TL-191 and found myself wondering how a CSA victory might pan out so looked at this thread for inspiration/further consideration. As Potter says in one of the books, he knew the relatively true state of affairs between USA and CSA in 1914 through 1917 and there was no way...

  6. WI: Soviets invade Poland first?

    Whatever happened to the Shattered World TL? I used to enjoy that.

  7. Hardest AHC EVER

    Look at a traditional mediaeval banquet - Roasted Swan, Lamprey, Peacock, Quail. That's pretty fancy fare. And there are plenty of locally grown fruits made into compotes. Britain has something like 600 cheeses compared with France's piddly 450.

  8. Victory in the East and the West

    It's almost asking for spoilers but will the USSR detonate nuclear devices in China?

  9. 2008 financial crash: would it happen if Gore elected in 2000?

    Whilst I could not envisage a Gore "Big Government", despite coming from a New Deal supporting family, Gore certainly would have encouraged measures as outlined above and throw in ratification of Kyoto as well. What this would have meant would a little less liquidity in the economy in exchange...

  10. Yorkshire Film Studios TL

    So this story was on the beeb today and it made me think of this long forgotten thread: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33198686

  11. WI: Roosevelt without Polio

    I'm not sure if I've ever seen this one attempted though please signpost me if it has. As the above says - FDR doesn't contract Polio and doesn't end up in a wheelchair. How would this affect his political career going forward?

  12. 1603/1707 British capital moves to York

    York could be the site of court but as Parliament's powers continue to increase, I'd expect the more powerful members to refuse to move from London. Would be interesting when the supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie instead of marching through Lancashire make a beeline for York in 1745.

  13. AHC: Reverse Norman Conquest

    Why would they bother? The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom was at a zenith around the time of the Norman Conquest whilst the territories of the former Kingdom of the Franks were tottering. The Wool trade made England the richest and most powerful country in Europe, there simply was no reason for them to...

  14. AHC: Bigger UK

    If you're talking direct rule from Westminster, then very difficult. Iceland would probably be the easiest given the small and easily managable population it could hope to have. Everything else would have a varying degree of self-governance. You could have UK enclaves in Calais and Bolougne...

  15. When did WWII in Europe become inevitable?

    I think as Ian's essay (remember that?) says, the German economy was unsustainable in its massive military spending. Once it was locked on course - if such a thing is possible in economics - war became inevitable from the point of view of the upper echelons of the Reich. Although I ticked...

  16. A Man is Finished When He Quits - The Presidency of Richard M. Nixon (Redux)

    Um...Eisenhower defeated Stevenson in '52...

  17. WI: The US and Britain Clashed Over Venezuela in the 1890s?

    Wasn't this the scenario in "The Whale and the Wolf" essay in the book "What If America? UK/US bustup over Venezuela, US invade Canada and ultimately capture Toronto but war drags on a bit too long. Ultimately UK cedes Quebec to USA (making the rest of Canada more Brit-homogenous (not...

  18. AHC: More Underground Railways in the UK?

    FYI, excluding London Overground, only 45% of the network is actually underground.

  19. DBWI: Can Britain remain a superpower?

    Britain's status as a Great Power is under question - the problem is that since 1848, nationalism has stuck a resonance amongst culturally distinctive groups in all the empires and that some are willing to fight. With the pseudo-independent Ireland, other countries are likely to follow suit...

  20. US-UK relations WI

    Could start with a different outcome from the Treaty of 1818 which led to the settlement of what was to become Oregon and British Columbia. Rather than a race to settle the territories, it becomes a model of Anglo-American co-operation. This leads to a better "normalising" of relations between...
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