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The separation of plausibility and convincing is interesting, as that level of research into what people ate and rhythms of speech feel like caring about plausibility - like the term "plausibility" for historical/AH gets seen as meaning something else.
Other than Waterloo being more famous, I would assume the logic is that if it's mainly playing on the OTL Regency period as a setting for romances, it's easier to get it closer to recognisable people/settings/tropes etc. if you're talking about a post-1815 invasion rather than a more plausible 1803 one.It's something we've been chatting about elsewhere.
The Hester and Crow books play fast and loose with a lot of details, Cornish survives as a language another 100 years so the rebels can talk in a language that the French don't understand, Josephine survives her otl death so she can become Napoleon's regent in England and a relatively large character and the POD is that a Napoleon killing Blucher at Ligny and then winning Waterloo (which is very detailed and convincing) then leads to Napoleon in London which rather ignores the royal navy.
I don't think Napoleon winning at waterloo would plausibly lead to napoleon ruling England but because we focus on Napoleon winning the land battles and then georgian england with added french police but never mention the actual crossing, you can ignore it.
The things that are covered in detail are well researched and feel convincing, it does feel like it captures the time period, but there are very unlikely things, it's just they're handwaved and not the focus.
I honestly do recommend the books and I think it does what all good ah does, which is focuses on the bit it can justify. It's a lot easier to ignore the bits that don't work when the author also ignores it.
Other than Waterloo being more famous, I would assume the logic is that if it's mainly playing on the OTL Regency period as a setting for romances, it's easier to get it closer to recognisable people/settings/tropes etc. if you're talking about a post-1815 invasion rather than a more plausible 1803 one.