Alternate History Thread II...

[Dachs]

I just went back and looked at das's ideas...interesting...

and speaking of it, why such a low opinion of the Spartan fleet?)

By that time it had basically been destroyed by Phormio IIRC.

and thus such leaders as Demosthenes and Alcibiades were eagerly supported in their plans to take the initiative. It was the only reasonable thing to do.

...and Cleon, but Cleon didn't have much of a strategy other than "attack Sparta and Corinth attack attack attack! yarr!" like silver. Good thing he died at Amphipolis.

IMHO had Alcibiades been a more ruthless and pragmatic man, he could have not just saved Athens but also could have himself become the hegemon of Greece, and technically there was no need to stop there.

Indeed. I shall flesh out tomorrow morning when I have Computer Systems Lab (ha ha! Linux comps!) time. We'll say...hmmm...PoD is rather difficult to say.

Speaking of which, the Virginia WH/G II SOL pissed me off. "Constantinople was renamed 'Istanbul' in 1453"???? pls...

 

[Dachs]

@bombshoo: Good idea BTW. I assume green is my favorite nation?

 

[bombshoo]

It is indeed. Maybe I will post some brief profiles for the nations later.

 

[ThomAnder]

bombshoo, can i mod it?

 

[bombshoo]

Please. thats why I posted it . Tell me what info you need, and what you want to do on your own.

 

[ThomAnder]

I'd like to know about the backgrounds and stuff first... like how things ended up the way they are. Hmmm i might use stalin's ruleset though depending on the time era. I wonder if he'll mind...

 

[bombshoo]

Ok, its 1890-1900 start era...I know its abit overused...But thats also the area of history I like best...I actually also started a map thats more about 1750 on the same timeline, just so I could figure out expansions and etcs...I have about half the nation backgrounds done so far....Since it's your NES though you should decide some of it or make any changes you want. AIM me at ThePoisonPuppet if you want to actually discuss anything.

 

[Thlayli]

Well Dachs, your location is Constantinople, and you are very pro-Greco. It would be like calling me a Musketeer...sort of.

I probably won't do a timeline for Oriental World, It'll just start in the stone-ish age with a few BT's. Not sure when this is going to happen, but oh well...eventually.

Can someone tell me if humanity evolving in Malaysia is feasible, if we have, oh let's say, a larger rainforest in Africa?

 

[silver 2039]

...and Cleon, but Cleon didn't have much of a strategy other than "attack Sparta and Corinth attack attack attack! yarr!" like silver. Good thing he died at Amphipolis.

I take offense to that...I say: ""attack Sparta and Corinth attack attack attack! Genoicde, burn, loot, rape, pillage, and plunder! RAR!"

See I have much better strategy.

 

[alex994]

Silver, wasn't Bactrasha's Capitol in ITNES destroyed by Khmeria and Kalinga Destroyed by an Indian and an Indochinese country

 

[Symphony D.]

Silver, wasn't Bactrasha's Capitol in ITNES destroyed by Khmeria and Kalinga Destroyed by an Indian and an Indochinese country

Nope. That was all me. I also looted the bottom half of the Tigris and Euphrates too, and marched 70,000 men through Hormuz.

 

[Disenfrancised]

Can someone tell me if humanity evolving in Malaysia is feasible, if we have, oh let's say, a larger rainforest in Africa?

I told you before no . The various Homo are plains walkers, they don't do to well in jungles and mountains till nearly modern humans roll around. A larger african rainforest will just stop homoid evolution there. If you want it so bad just say that a super virulent virus/space aliens wipe out all humans apart from isolated groups in the indonesian jungles some 60,000 years ago, and they then spread round the world from there, but don't mess around trying to get humans to evolve somewhere with very different conditions

 

[Symphony D.]

Or just change which group survived the population bottle-neck caused by the Toba Event. 'course, considering it went off in Indonesia, you'd likely need the supervolcano going off elsewhere instead. Say... Yellowstone.

Eg: slight variances in geology result in no Toba eruption. Humans spread out across the globe circa 70k BC. Yellowstone supervolcano erupts. Population bottle-neck occurs in human populations, only settlements roughly opposite the event (somewhere in Asia, give or take) survive, then gradually repopulate the planet from there. Asia becomes the oldest site of culture in the world. Same net result, not terribly much fiddling with evolution.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Hey, that's a good idea.

 

[silver 2039]

Nope. That was all me. I also looted the bottom half of the Tigris and Euphrates too, and marched 70,000 men through Hormuz.

Meanhwile your country was being raped by China and the Rising Sun. Attacking another country on the other side of the continent with no relation to you was a stupid thing to do.

 

[Disenfrancised]

Meanhwile your country was being raped by China and the Rising Sun. Attacking another country on the other side of the continent with no relation to you was a stupid thing to do.

He still did pretty well though

 

[North King]

The relation, silver, was that you were at war with me, his ally. And while Symphony struck the most well known blow of that war, I would not disparage the fact that I foiled *two* Bactrashan invasions of India; while silver managed to do pretty well the first time, the second time was simply a massacre of his troops, and even without Khmer help, Kalinga would have won.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Who was silver then?

 

[North King]

Bactrasha.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

I have to read through early ITNES.