An alternate capitol focused on Russia's opening to the West? While there's been discussion here of other Baltic locations, Russia has access to another marginal inner sea. So, Sebastopol, Livadia or Yalta, in a world where Russia conquers the Crimea early? Of course that's a vulnerable...
Although some Yankee traditionalists still claim they support traitors like Grant, Sherman, and Lincoln to celebrate "Northern Heritage" and the North's cultural distinctiveness, Americans widely perceive the "War of Northern Treachery" as an attack on property rights and the Constitution...
Hmm, great scenario! What happens to Poland - does this give them a chance at survival?
Any chance of French involvement? And how would that delay, advance, or otherwise change the French Revolution?
I dunno. The two Roman triumvirates and the Directoire show group leadership as inherently unstable. I'm trying to think of a time in history when government has truly functioned without a chief executive - Switzerland? The United States under the Articles of Confederation?
But particularly in...
Well good news for Crawford of Lymond then. He's never estranged from his family and history is altered forever. Notably, Russia likely never becomes a great power.
Intriguing.
One major question is whether the Sassanids "contain Islam" as well, or whether they collapse. If Persia becomes Muslim, the Byzantines still have a great power competitor of at least their own strength. If not, Middle Eastern politics becomes much more interesting; a three-way...
Fascinating. Very similar to the Viking ethos. Maybe there are parallels in other warrior cultures.
So if Ragnar Loðbrok or Temujin were promoting a new religion while conquering new lands and rising to the pinnacle of his society, you might have seen a theologically different world.
Post WWI, victorious Wilhelmine Germany restores the Tsar to the throne. With the devastation of the Russian Civil war Russia becomes a virtual German protectorate. Later, client Russia becomes the Zollverein's vehicle to exercise power in the East against the Anglo-American proxies in Japan and...
Pretty much what it says on the tin.
Due to whatever combination of circumstances - more moderate French Revolution, failed Jay Treaty, earlier Jefferson Administration in the U.S., a better French Ambassador to the U.S. than Citizen Genet, etc., the British Empire and the United States end up...
Hey all,
I've started an old-fashioned Europa Universalis 2 (actually For the Glory) Ottoman world conquest AAR over at the Paradox Forums!
There's not a lot of action over there these days, so I thought I'd post this over here...