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  1. President Seward

    Actually, Russia did show its sympathy to US IOTL. They even sent their fleet to US for a while because they didn't want it to be trapped in case something went down with the British.

  2. Challenge: Less Misanthrophy in fiction

    Again, I feel you'd need to get rid of the Cold War for this because 'wise aliens arrive to save us from our warlike nature' was actually a hopeful message at the time. Yeah, it showed that most people will do anything - good or bad - if an authoritative enough person tells them to.

  3. Challenge: Less Misanthrophy in fiction

    Get rid of the Cold War. A lot of the 'wise alien' stories were actually because people were hoping that that there was some hyper-advanced ultra-civilized race out there that would swoop down and save humans before they blew themselves up. I'd say that without a constant background feeling...

  4. What country do you think deserves a wank?

    The Coosa Chiefdom and its ilk. Way too many people get excited about Mesoamerican civilizations. Show North America some love too.

  5. Alternate histories of TV shows

    Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles is renewed for another season. The first few episodes have John try to come to terms with the Resistance camp and hanging around with Derek, Kyle and Allison Young while occasionally meeting up with Weaver. This arc is not well liked, feeling too generic and...

  6. Better 80s Cartoons.

    Get rid of whatever joker decided people weren't allowed to hit each other on-screen. 90% of your problems are solved right there.

  7. Irritating cliches of post-1900 Alternate History:

    Those seem like pretty big assumptions to make given that we have no real way to test whether the time-space continuum as a whole does or does not possess a mind, much less what happens as a result of time travel.

  8. Lincoln gets states back without war

    The Southern states lose nerve and don't make an overt attack. The next eight years are a mishmash of passive aggression, legal doublethink, and dubious proclamations ending in the would-be Confederacy quietly withdrawing its declarations of independence and agreeing to act as though the entire...

  9. Irritating clichés about Pre-1900 AH

    It's the nobles' assembly. It's one of the major reasons why Easter European lore tends to portray a sovereign ruler taking power from the nobles as a good thing. Unless it's one of the things you're specifically changing in your ATL, it's the obvious way to Ukraine wasn't a likely successor...

  10. Decades of Darkness

    I'll admit one ATL scenario I thought of right off the bat as I was reading the Great War was what if instead of getting involved with Germany New England and Great Britain somehow got into a Second American War. True enough. From what I understand New England has a pretty good amount of...

  11. Decades of Darkness

    Wait, industrial disparity? Wouldn't that gap be less wide since in this ATL it would have been America paying reparations to New England instead of the other way around? Plus I'm not sure if New England should still have rocket forces since they retain the right to openly manufacture arlacs...

  12. AHC: Failed state in Europe

    Germany seems very obvious.

  13. Can slavery be ended peacefully?

    Anyone know if there was a chance of compensated emancipation? That seems to have worked out well enough for some countries.

  14. TL Description and Title Game

    Freedom is the Price of Loyalty. Grant's demise early in the Civil War leads means Sherman becomes Union's most important general and uses total war tactics against the South more broadly, earning it international sympathy. The Confederacy remains independent, but the peace is heavily skewed in...

  15. AHC: Battle of Blair Mountain

    If federal troops get sent in, things get messy. I understand one of the people likely to be called in for an armed response was really eager to test air power.

  16. Sealion and big cannons

    Okay, new plan for dealing with landing craft: Just dump rocks into the English Channel until you have a land bridge. I am only 95% joking here.

  17. Sealion and big cannons

    Keep in mind I'm not solely interested in Nazi Germany's ability to perform this attempt. I'm just wondering whether a Continental power could successfully cross the Channel without first acquiring superiority either in the air or on the sea.

  18. Sealion and big cannons

    Okay, I see the problems. Now, the question is, are they hard engineering problems or just the result of OTL gun development? In other words, is it that a land-mounted gun is incapable of beating a battleship in principle, or is it just that the Germans didn't have enough guns?

  19. Sealion and big cannons

    Really? Instinctively it seems like making a really big gun would be easier if you didn't have to worry about making it float.

  20. Sealion and big cannons

    Okay, first things first: given that this is a thread on Sealion, I fully and completely accept that this strategy will fail just like all the others. But I'd like for someone to tell me why it's going to fail. Now, for my idea: We all know Germans really like big cannons, right? Of the kind...
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