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  1. Count of Crisco

    The Great Game: Napoleonic France without Napoleon: Supplemental TL for a naval game.

    Hello, this timeline is sort of an auxiliary to a naval building game myself and @Virginia Liberal will be running over the coming months which puts players in charge of one of several navies of the nations in this alternate timeline. The game begins in 1890, but as we have developed a...
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    De geschiedenis en schepen van de Nederlandse Koninklijke Marine (ALT Netherlands TL)
    Threadmarks: Preface

    Preface Throughout much of the period covered in this work the primary government naval base the Willemsoord base would begin construction in the Napoleonic wars and be repeatedly modernized since. Depicting the base as it appeared in the 1910s before a major fire the above image represented...
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    Writing question, was the development of alphabets inevitable?

    So often times you see in various history type deals talking about the ancient fertile crescent that the development of alphabets was inevitable. That the clunky and difficult to use cunieform was destined to be replaced by the much simpler to use scripts developed in Canaan which would become...
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    UKoN as a major power post Congress of Vienna

    Following the end of the Napoleonic wars the allied powers wanted to ensure that if France ever fell into revolution again there would be a series of strong powers on its borders to quickly contain it and restore order. Perhaps the most obvious of these intentions was the creation of the United...
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    AHQ: Varangian declares himself emperor?

    Could a member of the guard have ever declared himself emperor? And if he did so what would the reaction have been within the empire, government, army, and public? And what would the guard have done?
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    Favorite random nation, culture, ethnic group, or religion?

    Do you have a secret love for the Norte Chico civilization? The Luwians? The Bo people maybe? How about the Ket? Or another random people that you think deserve more attention or are underappreciated by the AH.com community? This is the thread for you then. The way this works is simple. Tell...
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    AHQ: How powerful could an independent Ireland be?

    So lets say the Vikings bring about a unified Irish state sometime in the 9th to 11th century either through their own rule or by causing the Irish to join together to drive them out. However it happens Ireland is an independent kingdom by the time of the Norman conquest of England. Lets then...
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    Sources for age of sail navies other than English & sometimes the French.

    During the age of sail, roughly 1600-1850, there were hundreds of actions involving more than two or three ships, and easily over a hundred fleet actions. Some dozens of nations would build and use ships in this era. And they were not just limited to the European powers. Nor was this era...
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    AHC Stronger, more stable Spain by 1914

    Spain had a rotten 19th century, and the prior century hadnt been kind either. Despite several promising starts the nation repeatedly fell into decline, civil war, and economic collapse. What is a way to have a Spain with more power and prosperity than OTL by 1914? Doesnt need a post 1900 POD...
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    AHC Preserve an independent Welsh kingdom as long as possible

    Following the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons several Cymry petty kingdoms would endure on the periphery of the British isles. With pockets of Welsh resistance gradually being absorbed by the Angles and Saxons, as well as the Picts and later Scots. Eventually England came to dominate the remaining...
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    ACH Keep Cunieform in use as a written language to the present day.

    As the tin says find a way to keep Cunieform in use by at least one language into the present day. It doesnt have to be used by a major language, or even be commonly known. Likewise you do not need to keep any languages in use that are extinct IOTL.
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    AHC: invent an original writing system

    Doesn't have to be written, but any form of recording information you can think of will do. Just describe your system and give a brief account of its development.
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    General Alyskan Navy Thread
    Threadmarks: Introduction to thread

    Recently on the alternate warships of nations thread I have been posting some ships from a Timeline I have been working on (link to the TL in my signature if your interested) and people seemed to like it. And I thought it would be a good idea to make a thread for some more ships so that the AWoN...
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    WI Dunkerque and Strasbourg in RN service?

    So lets just say for our purposes that the MN dispatches the two Dunkerque class battleships and a small task force, say elements of the Force de Raid, a light cruiser, two large destroyers, and three or four smaller destroyers, to help the British intercept the Bismarck when she sorties. The...
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    Question, oldest language to still have native speakers

    So in quarantine I have recently gotten into linguistics and conlanging, I obviously speak English, and have been learning Russian for some time. But I started learning Dutch as well recently, and have begun looking at other languages with an aim of creating a conlang for a writing project at...
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    If the British wanted to divide India post WWII how many states could be reasonably made?

    So in a TL I am working on the British decide to divide India post WWII into several smaller states rather than the OTL division of India and Pakistan. Their reasoning is that they want to continue to have influence in the region post war, and see a single unified India as a major potential...
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    Alternate Aircraft of Nations

    This is inspired by the long running alternate warships of nations thread and works fairly similar to that long running discussion. You can post your scenarios and alternate aircraft here, as well as post any basic questions regarding plausibility of certain scenarios, viability of aircraft...
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    A History of Alyska to the year 1800.

    Thanks to Covid I have had a lot of free time, and have spent it getting back into writing. Among the various projects I have been working on has been an alternate history setting, the timeline of which will appear here.
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    <1900 free online resource collection thread

    This thread is meant as a place to post sources that you use often, or just enjoy reading that you think would come in handy for others. The only stipulation is that it needs to be free and easily accessible. Any subject or period after 1900 (I am going to post a similar thread for the >1900...
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    >1900 free online resource collection thread

    This thread is meant as a place to post sources that you use often, or just enjoy reading that you think would come in handy for others. The only stipulation is that it needs to be free and easily accessible. Any subject or period after 1900 (I am going to post a similar thread for the <1900...
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