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    Aftermath of Plan Rubber

    Reasons don't matter why, but in 1942 the US feels like it has no choice but to launch Plan Rubber and seize a number of bases in northern Brazil. After some fighting the Brazilian government comes to a deal to stop the fighting just to stop the bloodshed as it sees no good choices forward...
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    Great Eastern Crisis of 1875-1878 blows up into a general war?

    Like the tin says, could the Great Eastern Crisis of 1875-78 turn into a general European war with a misstep from one of those in this crisis? The most likely player making a misstep would be Franz Joseph IMO as I honestly looking at his past prior to the Great Eastern Crisis. I honestly don't...
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    Charles Sumner dies on the Senate Floor in 1856

    Ok this is an idea I been playing with for a few weeks and frankly I'm not trusting my thought process on this. Anyways Preston Brooks strikes Charles Sumner hard enough to kill him during the canning. The Canning of Sumner was a major moment in American political history during the lead up to...
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    271 Gore to 266 Bush

    Ok one thing I always wanted to play with is the idea of Gore carrying New Hampshire in the 2000 election. Those four votes would been enough to put Gore over the 270 finish line and made the whole mess in Florida irrelevant. The difference in NH is just over 7,000 votes in OTL. Lets say for...
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    Sweden joining a Victorious Central Powers

    Ok in early 1914 Russian Admiral von Essen decides to go ahead with his crazy plan over Gotland and this brings Sweden into the Great War on the side of the Central Powers and against the Entente. For various reasons this the US doesn't enter the war with the Central Powers winning the Great...
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    Fire the Cannons; A Tampa Bay Bucs TL

    Ok unlike my other TL this is going to be shorter updates and lacking details. Yet I believe I give enough detail to follow the course of events ITL. 1999 Season With the fallout from the 1998 season, the Bucs fire OC Mike Shula along with the bulk of his staff. Shula is replaced by Mike...
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    Supreme Ruler Ultimate

    I got this game about a week ago and I'm wondering what you guys think of this game. I think with this version of the game they are trying to fill the niche of Vicky II but from WWI to post-Modern times. One play through so far, I honestly have mix feelings. I do like how the research is done...
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    G11 adopted and sees wide spread issue with the Bundeswehr

    In 1989 and 1990 the Bunderswehr was on the verge of adpoting the H&K G11 rifle which if done would turn the world of firearms upside down. It fired caseless ammo and had a burst ability with a rate of fire with 2000 rounds per minute. Yet German reunification was happening and they needed money...
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    New Balancing
    Threadmarks: The Spanish-American War of 1873-1875 Part One

    The Spanish-American War of 1873-1875 Part One As the Virginius Crisis was unfolding there was only one figure on either side of the Atlantic that was working calmly for a peaceful end to the crisis that the capture of the Virginius and executions of a number of the crew of that ship had...
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    British Raj; Peaceful Decolonization

    Ok this is for an ASB TL but the idea is simple. How to you get the British Raj to pill off the British Empire without blowing up in the face of everyone? Its really that simple how to create peaceful subcontinent?
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    Franco-Prussian War spins out of control into a World War?

    At the moment I'm fiddling with an idea that sees the Franco-Prussian War turn into a World War in 1870. Frankly I'm having a hard time coming up with a possible action that would create such an event during the war itself. I really don't want to have a secret treaty between the French and...
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    The Rise of the Eagle
    Threadmarks: Class Update I

    Havana, Cuba DSSC 319, University of Cuba March 25 2019 The students of the University of Cuba were all returning to their classes after returning from Spring Break. They had travelled all over the American or French Caribbean or to Florida for their Spring Break vacation from their studies yet...
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    What would the US/NATO to in the Pacific in a WWIII in the 1980s?

    Ok I'm trying to figure this out and haven't been able to find shit as yet. Lets say in the mid 1980s a war starts between the Warsaw Pact and NATO for whatever reason. For the shake of this lets say the Soviets brought the SDI effort by the US and doesn't take this nuclear. What would the...
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    The Battle of the Gridiron Giants; An NFL TL

    Tampa Bay Raymond James Stadium February 4 2018 “With tonight’s Super Bowl, an era in the National Football League comes to an end.” Al Michaels said during the pre-game run up. “You have that right Al. This is the sixth time these two teams had faced each other since their first meeting in...
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    Theodore Roosevelt Court Picks from a 1909-1913 Term

    Ok lets say that TR decides to stay the 1901-05 term was simply finishing off McKinley's mandate with the 1904 election starting his own mandate to run the nation. So he feels that by running again in 1908 isn't breaking the two term limit set by Washington. Now it goes without saying he would...
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    M14 in .276 Pedersen

    Ok assuming the US adpot the .276 Pedersen round in the 1930s how would the M14 rifle in .276 Pedersen look like? Or would they go with the Belgian FAL which was one the guns being looked at as a unviserital NATO gun in the early 50s. I just don't see the US Army going with the EM-2 because its...
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    von Moltke Removed from Command Before the Battle of the Marne

    The tin says it all. As the bodies in the early weeks of the war started to be stacked like coodwood von Moltke was losing it. Lets say von Moltke snaps on August 31 and he is replaced by von Falkenhayn on Sep 1. Would this allow Germany to in the Battle of the Marne and defeat the French and...
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    World War I Light Rifle?

    One thing I been thinking about is a WWI Light Rifle using the Pedersen device. As designed OTL its an awkward that really threw the balance of the M1903 off. However, what if you built the Pedersen device into a modified M1903 at the factor instead of having it being issued and swapped with a...
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    A New Balance, Redux
    Threadmarks: Spanish American War of 1873-75

    The Spanish American War 1873-75 The Spanish American War of 1873-75 started in the aftermath of the Virginius Affair. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish was working to find a peaceful end to this affair with Minister Admiral Don Jose Polo de Bernabe soon after the affair started. As Fish was...
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    No code books from SMS Magdeburg 1914

    Ok this is fairly straight forward. The SMS Magdeburg doesn't run aground in 1914 off Osmussaar during the opening stages of WWI. Meaning no naval code book are taken as prizes by the Russians. How does this effect the course of the naval war in the First World War? Because as I recall those...
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