Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1317922-20131001224734/@comment-5169980-20131004150848

I think POD should really be during the Napoleonic war in the way that it literally do not happen, Napoleon get killed or do not assume power. After the war in OTL, The Netherland and Spain were broken, France was broken, the German and Italian were not in shape to colonize and Russia, it wouldnt had colonized anyway (exept if you make that Russia get more interest in colonization and decide to build a colonial empire outside of the far east. Britain was the only country in Europe to survive the war without any major impact except to increase his control on the sea and add new colonies to his empire.

No Napoleonic war would make that the European power could be stronger, more populous, not bankrupt and ready to renew expansion, the liberal revolution that happen would had not happen neither. Or Napoleon could win and quickly build a navy but it is unlikely.