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  1. Our Fractured Crown: An Eastern Roman Timeline

    Likely Timur will capture and sack Nicomedia like he did Smyrna in OTL, then turn back and focus on troubles within his empire that developed while he was gone and plan his great final campaign against the Chinese.

  2. Our Fractured Crown: An Eastern Roman Timeline

    Would Timur even see a need to fight Rhomania? Main reason he got that far was to beat up the Ottomans who were starting to spread into the eastern edges of Anatolia and thus were the biggest neighbor capable of threatening Timur's Empire aside from the Mamlukes (The Golden Horde, Chagatai...

  3. Our Fractured Crown: An Eastern Roman Timeline

    Apart from Cyprus, Rhodes and whatever else the Knights have, are all Greek lands held by Latins recovered now? Seems like it, which is good even if it took a very long time to recover.

  4. Triple Calamity: What if the Three Most Important Men in the Executive Branch Died in One Night?

    Hmm even if America takes Canada, I get the feeling the Americans will be forced to give up their entire empire outside of the mainland of North America (and maybe Dominica) to the Brits for them to accept. The US might be forced to retreat from everywhere and thus slide into a much more serious...

  5. Is there any way for Rome to survive?

    It was the final institution of the Empire that was still running, the Senate also survived the fall of the Empire but died less than a century after I believe. Also in France for example while the Franks made up the nobles, the existing Gallo-Roman nobility simply transitioned towards roles in...

  6. Is there any way for Rome to survive?

    The OP wants specifically a surviving Western Empire because there are already too many TLs where the East endures.

  7. Is there any way for Rome to survive?

    Well any nation can survive if the odds are in their favor, just depends on how you define surviving. Like the Papacy as stated. Majorian succeading to restore the West would give the empire at least another century or two lease on life if not more. Another option is a piece being preserved by...

  8. Could The Roman Empire have conquered all of the British isles, had it chosen to try?

    It kinda was that bad, even during just normal operations Britain maintained three legions at minimum. Which might not sound like a lot, but was a tenth the total legions Rome usually operated with. It was also barely enough to keep order in the province, and the only times the Romans ever...

  9. Could The Roman Empire have conquered all of the British isles, had it chosen to try?

    What Scotts? They dont exist yet, its all Picts up there. Anyway if Agricola wasnt called back at the last second, then the Roman could have permanently established themselves in the lowlands of Caledonia. The plan was to starve the picts out by cutting them off from the lowlands breadbasket...

  10. The Rule of 2, Prosperity and Peril, A Roman Timeline

    Honestly it not like being made governers was the worst fate either, Baetica was also a pretty rich province from what I remember. It's for the best that such power hungry fools failed, who knows what they would have actually done with power.

  11. The Rule of 2, Prosperity and Peril, A Roman Timeline

    How exactly did they think that would go? "Yo brother we killed your heir, so now I can be your heir no problem right?" Seems like just using poison would have been a much more sensible approach if they didn't also plan to coup Severus too. Anyway big fan of a Rome that tries to close the gaps...

  12. WI: Julian the Apostate succeeds in his Persian expedition

    Well more that Julian chose a divide and conquer approach to Christianity not just the Hebrews. He wanted to prop up as many different sects as possible in order to splinter the church from what I remember. So Jews, Arians, Ebionites, etc. Would be supported in order to weaken the christians...

  13. Why Russian Central Asia?

    Best hope for a Persian Central Asia as opposed to a Russian one in my mind is entirely dependent on Nader Shah. The demographic collapse after caused by the violent anarchy after his death ruined Persia. If you can have a stable change from Nader to his successor without bloodshed then a...

  14. WI: Manuel Komnenos succeeds in Italy

    The schism being ended after only a century has interesting implications. How would the re-union of churches work? The Patriarch of Rome becoming the first among equals instead of the Patriarch of Constantinople? The Normans being crushed means the Empires western flank is secure, even if they...

  15. Latest possible reallistic WRE reunification?

    Depends, if you can accept a knock-off then it's never too late! But if something like the HRE that explicitly claims the legacy of the WRE and not just the RE as a whole... hmm a bit harder. I could see a splinter of a more succesful Eastern Empire take the western bits for itself and claim...

  16. “Instant empires” that never were?

    Easiest example I could think of is a succesful Crusade of Varna, where the King of Poland/Hungary doesnt die. In such a scenario as a successful crusade the young king solidifies his reputation and can focus on consolidating a massive power bloc that stretches from Bulgaria (a vassal state) to...

  17. WI: The Greek Plan was successful - Ottoman Empire partitioned

    Never heard of this "Greek Plan", but it is an interesting idea that would likely receive quite a bit of support by the Greeks at least though not as much from the Bulgarians. Main issue is that even if Joseph II survived, allowing the plan to go ahead, would the other great powers sit back and...

  18. AHQ: Roman Armada of 468 reconquers north Afric from the vandals, what now?

    You know with all these threads set in this period which have Richimer as the lynchpin of evil that will topple any emperor, whats stopping someone from just killing him first? Or am I to believe Richimer is assasination proof? His ability to just kill any Emperor who even slightly fails a...

  19. Italy going with Germany and AH in WWI

    I mean Nice is also a good port, Corsica gives a good chunk of the Med to Italy's economic zone, and Savoy is the namesake of the Royal Family. Heck two of those were Italian lands within living memory. Another juicy morsel would have been the offer of Tunis which had a sizable Italian...

  20. Italy going with Germany and AH in WWI

    Why didnt the Germans just promise Corsica/Nice/Savoy to the Italians as compensation? Seems the more valuable of the Irredentist claims for Italy to want.
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