AH Title and Description Game

[AnywhereButOTL]

LZ Echo Charlie Four

A true story told from the point of view of a squad of Navy SEALs participating in the invasion of North Vietnam in 1971, involves point of view depictions of the famous Battle of LZ Echo Charlie Four, which pitted forty SEALs against more than six hundred NVA soldiers and resulted in an unforgettable tale of heroism and camaraderie under fire. Written by esteemed Vietnam historians former Lieutenant Commander John S. McCain Jr. and retired Four Star General Colin Powell, with interviews with the survivors of the Battle of LZ Echo Charlie Four included within this book.

Pick one of...
Satellite Phones, the Best New Invention of 1950

Welcome to Pyongyang Mr. President

Let's go to Camelot, tis a silly place...

 

[vandevere]

LZ Echo Charlie Four

A true story told from the point of view of a squad of Navy SEALs participating in the invasion of North Vietnam in 1971, involves point of view depictions of the famous Battle of LZ Echo Charlie Four, which pitted forty SEALs against more than six hundred NVA soldiers and resulted in an unforgettable tale of heroism and camaraderie under fire. Written by esteemed Vietnam historians former Lieutenant Commander John S. McCain Jr. and retired Four Star General Colin Powell, with interviews with the survivors of the Battle of LZ Echo Charlie Four included within this book.

Pick one of...
Satellite Phones, the Best New Invention of 1950

Welcome to Pyongyang Mr. President

Let's go to Camelot, tis a silly place...

Let's go to Camelot, 'tis a silly place...

A documentary movie, made in the early 2000s, by Terry Gilliam, detailing the events leading up to a live show, by the budding Monty Python troupe, in the late 60's, which was attended by the recently retired John F. Kennedy, and the current President Robert Kennedy.

Thanks for all the Fish

 

[Alternatehistorybuff5341]

Thanks for all the Fish

An ASB ATL where an ASB reduces the total fish population by five percent every year, until there are none left. The time line covers the eventual ecological, economic and political collapse of the world.

Keep Calm and Carry On

 

[Chris Oakley]

An ASB ATL where an ASB reduces the total fish population by five percent every year, until there are none left. The time line covers the eventual ecological, economic and political collapse of the world.

Keep Calm and Carry On

A satirical TL in which Margaret Thatcher has to resign as prime minister of Britain because of a booze problem.

What's Made Milwaukee Famous

 

[Lycaon pictus]

What's Made Milwaukee Famous

In 1905, a mutation in a vat of brewer's yeast in Milwaukee leads to mildly empathogenic beer. The temperance movement is divided as to whether this makes the beer less bad or even worse.

The Kingdom of Popular Soul

 

[Incognito]

The Kingdom of Popular Soul

TL that takes place an eternity into the future, after Judgment Day and the establishment of God's Kingdom on Earth. The righteous and deserving people have been reborn, forever young and healthy, and now live in a utopian society governed by God. However, some of the reborn souls begin to believe that they can doubtlessly create an even better society. What does God know about running things anyway? And so they create "The Kingdom of Popular Soul" (a play on things like the "People's Republic of X") which secedes from the Kingdom of God. Needless to say, Popular Soul's utopian plans don't work out quite as was planned.

The TL is believed to poke fun at various "politically conscious" online individuals who often believe that they could solve complex problems with simple and obvious solutions. However, the TL also seemed to have been making fun of AH.com's communists/socialists & atheists, thus proving to be controversial in the community.

Pick either
Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon! — A Gingrich Presidency TL*
or
A Flawless K.O. — The Klitschko Presidency
or
Tachankas and Texans — Makhno goes to Mexico
or
Gigantopithecus Porn? No Way Hosay -- Not in This Timeline!

* — for those of you unfamiliar, the title is a reference to The Honeymooners and this.

 

[AnywhereButOTL]

Gigantopithecus Porn? No Way Hosay -- Not in This Timeline!

Genes from a previously extinct species of giant ape are used by an eccentric billionaire to clone the once long gone Gigantopithecus. Initially lauded as a triumph of the private sector, the fate of the Gigantopithecus is contested by various sources as a scandal brews once it becomes clear that the genes used to create the Gigantopithecus were obtained illegally and that the specimen may be being used for sinister and highly illegal purposes.
The author of the thread was banned after a highly explicit chapter revealing the use of the Gigantopithecus in illegal pornography was posted. The thread remains a source of hilarity/disgust to this day.

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Kill Them Il, Let God Sort Them Out

Welcome To Dallas Mr. President

World War Three: War Harder

 

[Alternatehistorybuff5341]

Welcome To Dallas Mr. President
]

A Turtledove-esque TL in which the Republic of Texas remains independent, and survives to the modern era. During this time, the capital is moved from Austin to Dallas. The TL follows the story of President Lyndon B. Johnson during his years in office. A idealist with dreams of a 'Grand Society', Johnson must face the reality of politics; generation old racist sentiments, corruption and political influence. Despite all of this, Johnson overcomes the obstacles, and by the end of his presidency, The Republic of Texas had taken its first steps towards a brighter future.

They're All Gone

 

[Barbarossa Rotbart]

They're All Gone

A very strange TL about a world in which the population first-world and the merging nations simply vanish. Now the rest of the world is on a race for the knowledge and technology of the first-world.Who will win this race? And who will loose? And who will become the new super power?

Choose (and write at least four sentences!)
Fate - The Gates of Dawn
or
Of Goddesses and Women
or
Elizabeth the Great - The Lesbian Queen of England, Scottland and France (no ASB!)
or
Urban Arcana
(none of these should about books, movies etc.! Real events only!)

 

[Incognito]

Urban Arcana

A Future History TL speculating that, following the success of books like Twilight, the genera of urban fantasy will become increasingly popular in mainstream popular culture. The TL is written in a series of faux future news-articles and reviews. For example, one part is a fake Nostalgia Critic review (set in the year 2024) of the screen adaptation of the Jaz Parks series where the critic explains how the Jaz Parks movies own their success to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight and J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter. Another update is written as a blog post describing the blogger's experience at the Urban Fantasy Fan Convention in Brisbane circa 2019. The TL received significant criticism because many felt the author was ignoring the rise of popularity of "regular" fantasy thanks to works like George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire as in the TL urban fantasy completely overshadows "regular" fantasy.

Pick either
Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon! — A Gingrich Presidency TL
or
A Flawless K.O. — The Klitschko Presidency
or
Tachankas and Texans — Makhno goes to Mexico
or
Et tu, Caesar?

 

[Barbarossa Rotbart]

Et tu, Caesar?

Caius Julius Caesar took the threats against him serious and decided to silence his enemies permanently. So he issued proscriptions against his enemies and most of them were killed before they could flee out of Rome. Those who escaped were killed in the civil war that started soon thereafter. Ceasar was named King of Rome after he won the civil war and married Cleopatra.
The title comes from the first line of the TL said by Brutus shortly before Caesar killed him himself.

Choose (and write at least four sentences!)
Fate - The Gates of Dawn
or
Of Goddesses and Women
or
Elizabeth the Great - The Lesbian Queen of England, Scottland and France (no ASB!)
or
Et Tu, Cleopatra?
(none of these should about books, movies etc.! Real events only!)

 

[Alternatehistorybuff5341]

[/I]Elizabeth the Great - The Lesbian Queen of England, Scottland and France (no ASB!)

In an alternate timeline where England never lost it's Norman holdings, the Kingdom of England also claims the title of "Kingdom of France", even though a 'legitimate' government resides in Paris. Queen Elizabeth (not the one of OTL butstill reigning at a similar time) would reign during the English conquest of Scotland, and her patronage of the arts would cement her in the eyes of history. All the while, the Queen fell in love and had a secret affair with one of her hand maidens; this fact would not come to the light of day until historians discovered and authenticated the Queens diary.

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry King

 

[Incognito]

Of Goddesses and Women

A TL where an ATL Muhammad rather than trying to wipe out all worship of pagan gods in Arabia instead focuses on creating a synthetic religion combining Christianity, Judaism and Arab Paganism. This ATL "Islam" still holds Allah to be the supreme deity with Jesus and the other Abrahamic prophets as his messengers but also stipulates that the three goddesses of Mecca are Allah's divine daughters. This ATL Islam does not spread far West like OTL but manages to mix and coexist with Zoroastrianism and Hinduism and becomes an important religion in Asia. As the title suggests the TL focuses much attention on the role of women in ATL "Islamic" societies and how belief in female divinities impacts things. The author however does not foresee an earlier female suffrage and rise of women's rights, pointing out to other posters how concept of women as "second class citizens" existed in pagan societies just as it did in Abrahamic ones. However, when the ATL's Victorian Age comes about the suffrage movement starts in the Irānshahr Confederation (a nation consisting of OTL Iran, parts of Indian subcontinent, Central Asia & Caucasus and populated mainly by "Muslims", Hindus and Zoroastrians), with the participants drawing inspiration from early Persian and Arab female leaders as well as the various female goddesses (which is a revisionist move, as for much of the history the various female goddesses were seen as subservient to their male counterparts). The TL ends abruptly around what in OTL would have been 2027 with Irānshahr, under the leadership of the "Iron Lady" Malala Kaukabta (apparently somewhat inspired by the real-life Malala Yousafzai) creating the "Manawayat" Doomsday Device on the Moon (a Lunar nuclear missile facility, theoretically out of reach of any counterattack) in response to increased hostilities by the Inco-Iberian Coalition.

Pick either
Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon! — A Gingrich Presidency TL
or
A Flawless K.O. — The Klitschko Presidency
or
Tachankas and Texans — Makhno goes to Mexico
or
My Name Is John Galt — an Atlas Shrugged/My Name Is Earl crossover

 

[Incognito]

Wow, Alternatehistorybuff beat me by just 11 minutes.

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry King

After the Biblical Rupture, the Apocalyptic version of Jesus (the one described in the Book of Revelations) comes down from heaven and hunts down those not protected by the mark of God. Written as a horror story.

Pick either
Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon! — A Gingrich Presidency TL
or
A Flawless K.O. — The Klitschko Presidency
or
Tachankas and Texans — Makhno goes to Mexico
or
My Name Is John Galt — an Atlas Shrugged/My Name Is Earl crossover

 

[rick007]

Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon! — A Gingrich Presidency TL

ASB scenario where Newt Gingrich manages to barely win the Republican primaries. During the general election, with running mate Rick Santorum, Gingrich wins the presidency. Gingrich, with the help of multinational corporations, manages to get enough people on the Moon to make it the 51st state.

Choose either:
Not Easily Conquered
or
A Girl's Best Friend

 

[AnywhereButOTL]

Not Easily Conquered

A novel length fan fiction set in the Drakaverse, detailing the efforts of the Domination to take over Afghanistan. The locals prove to be more than a match for the better outfitted but arrogant Draka troops and the upstart nation quickly becomes a thorn in the side of the Domination as the Eurasian War drags on and the future of Afghanistan becomes a very dark and unsure thing.

Pick one of...
Apollo 19

Mushroom Clouds Above The Jungle

A Field of Ashes

 

[Emperor Norton I]

Mushroom Clouds Above The Jungle

An alternate history of the Vietnam war. Told from the perspective of a young Vietnamese girl entering womanhood as the story progresses, with a narrative frame written as the diary of the young woman, the story is about the brutality and dehumanizing coldness of war, and the human realities that are not taken into account. The story covers the girl's life in the midst of the Vietnam conflict and allows glimpses at the alternate course this history is taking from her world knowledge.
The story reaches its zenith with the dropping of tactical nuclear weapons by the United States. (It is strongly implied that the Soviets and Chinese have gone to war, allowing for the Americans to take such bold action without fear of revenge). It goes on to cover the aftermath of these actions, the human suffering in their wake, and a Vietnamese people who must recover.

Burned Worlds

 

[Tredecimus]

A Flawless K.O. — The Klitschko Presidency

Follow the successful story of one Vitali Klitschko - from the boxing ring to the Presidential Palace of Ukraine - and how he changed Ukrainian history forever.

A World Without England

 

[Barbarossa Rotbart]

Burned Worlds

A very dark timeline about the nine worlds of the nordic mythology after the downfall of the Aesir. Now the giants are trying to conquer the nine worlds. So the nine worlds are burning...

A World Without England

The Anglosaxons never conquered Britain and the British islands remain celtic and divided into several smaller kingdoms. The timeline explores how the non-existance of England affects history.

Choose (and write at least four sentences!)
Fate - The Gates of Dawn
or
Et Tu, Cleopatra?
(none of these should about books, movies etc.! Real events only!)

 

[Evan]

Et Tu, Cleopatra?

Despite taking Cleopatra as his mistress (as iOTL), Julius Caesar decides Egypt is too important to leave as a client state and must be directly annexed to Rome. Though outwardly submissive, Cleopatra is furious. Deciding that another period of Roman civil disorder would help preserve Egyptian independence, she kills Caesar with poisoned hairpins. His last words, as reported by Caesar's client Rufio before the Senate, were, "Et tu, Cleopatra?" - "and if even so gentle a lady as she could hide a heart of poison so well as to deceive even the great Caesar, not a single barbarian can be trusted by any good Roman! To arms, Rome!"

In the resulting wars, Consul Marcus Antonius seized Alexandria before rushing back to Rome to prevent Crassus from taking power. Egypt retained its independence for another twenty-five years. After losing the final battle to Dictator Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Cleopatra reportedly declared, "I have played my part as well as I could," before retreating to kill herself with (supposedly) the same hairpin she had used to slay Caesar.

The Pirates of Philadelphia