I mean, all the Anglo Saxons had to do is to hold their high ground instead of falling for a feint that the Normans launched. Even with their cavalry, the Anglo Saxons held a geographic advantage. Heck, not disbanding the entire army or retreating towards the Midlands and southern Northumbria would have shortened Harold’s supply line but risked getting caught between William and Harald Hardrada.
AFAIK in this period the king of France is a nonentity. But I can be wrong.
Oh, the Godwine's were Anglo sellouts to the Danes? Good to know! Their names made me think that they were fresh off the boat from Jutland!
‘More Murderous Julius Caesar’.
Yes, I know he killed a great many Gauls in his conquests, but what I’m talking about is having him be exceptionally brutal and bloodthirsty, even for his time and place. As in, more like a Roman version of Lenin or Stalin, but way less… communist, I guess.
Easy. Just have the conspiracy to kill him fail. The betrayal, including people he really trusted, will cause (justified) paranoia. Enemies he previously forgave get rounded up and killed. That causes others to become very worried, creating a spiral of plots and persecutions. If you have Caesar rule for a good long time, ever more isolated from potential enemies (real or imagined), the final result can be pretty gruesome.
Caesar being a genocidal slaver does not register in Roman sources. He'd be considered unusual and cruel only if he went for the senators and equites big time.
Sadly, the ship has sailed and the Union of Lublin is in place. So it is PLC already - a 2-for-1 deal. If Max gets elected it is for the combined throne.PC: Internal Polish or Polish-Lithuanian Politics in a Hapsburg-ruled Poland-Lithuania, or just Poland'
This was actually the pod for my final TL for ah.con before I got banned.‘Joe Stalin Succumbs To A Stroke In October 1945’.
See this article for more background on his medical history, if you’re interested. After all, Stalin suffered an array of illnesses and deformities throughout his life, so having a great many ATLs where he dies well before turning 74 is more probable than most would think. If anything, I’m starting to wonder if Stalin had even more health issues than Hitler, with his longer lifespan being due to winning the war (and thus, not having to commit suicide or get taken out by enemy fire any time after 1945).
This was actually the pod for my final TL for ah.con before I got banned.
Although didn’t the Lithuanians tried to get Ivan the Terrible elected in 1572, albeit as Grand Duke of Lithuania? I mean, why would they even try to do that, having just completed the Livonian War years prior to 1573.Sadly, the ship has sailed and the Union of Lublin is in place. So it is PLC already - a 2-for-1 deal. If Max gets elected it is for the combined throne.
Acceptance of Max will cut across "national" and "class" lines, with neither Lithuania nor Crownlands, neither magates or szlachta being monoliths. How peaceful things go depends on how tolerant Max is - the Reformation is more or less at its high water mark, with close to half of magnates - and maybe a quarter of the szlachta - Presbyterian.
Muscling his way in, I see.
As for the earlier death of Stalin in October of 1945, the title of that was How We Define Paradise or Desolation, and it follows Anastas Mikoyan succeeding Stalin.
In the TL that I wrote, the main issue that would face Mikoyan right off the bat would be the status of Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhichevan, mostly because of the conflicts between Armenians and Azeris. Of course, I did write this with my goal of creating a scenario where Turkey and Iran are Finlandized. The Soviets would withdraw from the disputed areas that they have claims with those two nations, but in return, they must be neutral. I wonder if it was possible for the Soviets to Finlandize Afghanistan as well.Must admit, I know next to nothing about Mikoyan, though having briefly reviewed (read: skimmed) the top of his Wiki page, helping De-Stalinize the Union under Khrushchev’s command almost certainly makes him better than, say, Lazar Kaganovich or some other Stalinist ramrod as General Secretary. Nevertheless, I doubt ATL will be a boring one, if the title offers any hints as to what might’ve happened instead.
LOL!
They did not try to elect him - he simply signed up for the election