Imagining a South African/Swedish nuclear confrontation over Angola. Meanwhile a Vela-style event occurring at Lake Geneva inspires an iconic guitar riff.
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Imagining a South African/Swedish nuclear confrontation over Angola. Meanwhile a Vela-style event occurring at Lake Geneva inspires an iconic guitar riff.
Talk about armed neutrality! What delivery system would Sweden have gone with? Submarines might have felt risky in the Baltic...
Talk about armed neutrality! What delivery system would Sweden have gone with? Submarines might have felt risky in the Baltic...
Gravity bombs dropped by their existing aircraft (the Lansen at the start) and the proposed Saab 36, as well as the similarly papered 500 km range RB 330 high altitude cruise missile.
InsertCoolUsernameHere
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How realistic is the US government picking a different location for the capital than OTL? Might be interesting to map out the alternate Georgetown-Alexandria Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Walpurgisnacht
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How realistic is the US government picking a different location for the capital than OTL? Might be interesting to map out the alternate Georgetown-Alexandria Metropolitan Statistical Area.
It ended up on the Virginia border as part of an North-South compromise so that Hamilton could get his financial plans through—without the Virginian clique and a Virginian President, it’s easy to have it remain in Pennsylvania or one of the other provisional locations, like New York or Trenton.
And perhaps later on it might be moved to, say, Columbus.Philadelphia as the capital would be interesting.
Now that's a dystopia, having a federal government centered in New Jersey!or one of the other provisional locations, like New York or Trenton.
(spoken by a New Yorker)
InsertCoolUsernameHere
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What are some under-discussed PODs with regards to US politics? I'm thinking of trying my hand at writing a timeline and if I were to give it a shot that would definitely be the area I'd be most interested in.
The Business plot, Zangara, and the attempt on Truman's life in 1951 might be good ones to tryWhat are some under-discussed PODs with regards to US politics? I'm thinking of trying my hand at writing a timeline and if I were to give it a shot that would definitely be the area I'd be most interested in.
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Of all the unfinished TLs on AHDC, The Fountainhead Fillibuster is the one that had the most potential.
AHDC?Of all the unfinished TLs on AHDC, The Fountainhead Fillibuster is the one that had the most potential.
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T'Other Place, the Old Country, the Place Before, aka alternatehistory (dot) comAHDC?
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AHDC?
What Jared said.
NotDavidSoslan
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Most of my timelines are OC based, and I have been bullied in the New Campaign Trail discord server for that, but I want to write more serious TLs focused on real people.
But I was looking forward to your SI in Steffon Baratheon’s second cousin once removed body, tentatively titled “Improved Relations: My Time as a Minor Baratheon”.Most of my timelines are OC based, and I have been bullied in the New Campaign Trail discord server for that, but I want to write more serious TLs focused on real people.
NotDavidSoslan
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I understood the joke, some of my timelines sound more like low-effort fanfiction than alternative history per se.But I was looking forward to your SI in Steffon Baratheon’s second cousin once removed body, tentatively titled “Improved Relations: My Time as a Minor Baratheon”.
I don’t see anything wrong with fan fiction: sometimes it’s a good exercise to work on our writing chops, not to mention how it can open our minds to new possibilities when doing original fiction of any kind.I understood the joke, some of my timelines sound more like low-effort fanfiction than alternative history per se.
Fuck what the New Campaign Trail Discord has to say about your works, your worlds. Do what you love.