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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. “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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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.

  14. Roman Armenia, Britannia, Dacia, Germania, Osrhoene and Mesopotamia: Was it worth it?

    Yeah that bit of Germany that is shaded in most certainly was worth it to the empire, holding it kept more valuable provinces to the west and south safe from barbarian incursion since that region would be the first to get hit in any raid. Had Marcus Aurelius succeeded in subjugating the...

  15. WI Rashidun Loses Ridda War

    A failure in the Riddah wars would likely see the various competing Prophets (One of which was a woman if I recall correctly) that popped up around that time lingering. The 3-4 false-prophets were cut down over the course of the reclamation campaigns like the one which controlled Oman. Easiest...

  16. WI: Lincoln’s assassins get all their targets?

    Well with the vice-president dead, he won't be around to sabotage reconstruction. The Radical Republicans will be able to push hard with little opposition after such an outrageous act of barbarism by the defeated south.

  17. what if the whigs party didn't collapse

    I would say this is the best path forward for a surviving Whig Party. Harrison's premature death a month into office gave John Tyler the presidency, and Tyler was a really a Democrat who was put on the Whig ticket to appeal to Southern Democrats who opposed Van Buren. With Tyler kept out of the...

  18. Wi: ERE falls 5th-6th century AD

    As a very quick guess if it falls due to barbarians or internal pressure, then the it would be lead to a reborn Achaemenid Empire by the Sassanids. Mostly for the Levant, Anatolia, and Egypt. The Balkan lands of the Empire would be held by Lombards, Gepids, or Avars depending on exactly when it...

  19. Hellenistic period with Alexander the Great living to old age

    Even if Chandragupta took the provinces along the Indus, which yes he probably could do before Alexander could mobilize, he'd be stuck at the Hindu Kush since it's easy to just hole up in there. He only really got what is today Afghanistan through a deal with Seleucus, if there is no deal then...

  20. Hellenistic period with Alexander the Great living to old age

    Macedonians in general drank a lot, and boy did those drinking parties cause trouble. One of them during his dad Philips time led to a fight between the two that might have been the catalyst for Alexander's mom having Philip assassinated (this is the party where Alexander famously said to his...
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