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I've noticed this exact issue in any kind of fiction (not just AH) that tries very hard to justify its setup. All the obvious contrivances make it seem less and not more plausible.Not only does it manage to make the Spanish Armada appear impossible to have even remotely succeeded because so much appears to need to go right for it to happen
I'm not surprised. @SenatorChickpea is great.Also this marks I think the 4th time where an article has quoted @SenatorChickpea, which I think is more often than an article has quoted Shakespeare or Jesus.
Commercial narratives featuring them often fall into the "can be easily viewed as alternate history even though there's no incentive to brand them as such" category. For instance, The Natural movie (the book is a lot more ambiguous) pretty much checks all the boxes of alternate history-different people in the past from its release with a different outcome.A "peasants" team in AH also sounds like the obvious angle for a sports story, which far as I can tell are predominantly focused on underdogs against on-paper stronger teams rather than teams that are just full of good people with good equipment and money for elite training.