Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-208.180.62.6-20131210154926/@comment-72.199.200.174-20140102021213

Doesn't seem logical at all. Rome gets itself out of its rut by tending to its own territory (which would mean easing back on the expansion), and then suddenly goes back to expanding again, all the way to China, and China is oh-so-willing to give the Romans the secret of gunpowder, which they then use to make weapons? Not only that but they CONQUER China? Like, all of China? What sort of system do they have to hold all of that together (Hint: It's NOT the road system)? Nothing short of the Internet would be able to have a pure hold on a country like that without SOME separation, much less the world.

A ship blown off course to Greenland would result in dead sailors. Even so, even the Romans would realize you can't colonize every land you see. They'd have conquered the African coast if that was not the case. Remind me what's there in Greenland? Small, short plants, polar bears and ice.

"Doop de doo sailing over to greenland and HOLY CRAP A NEW CONTINENT. Everybody, drop your jobs and move into this new possibly inhospitable world!" - Yeah, not how that works. There is still a good deal of water separating the two landmasses. Colonization also requires some sort of incentive, such as geographical or political dissent.

This may be a grammatical error, but explain to me how the natives got guns and crossbows?

Ah, the natives quickly surrender...just like our timeline's natives and the European colonists, right?

"Christians now make up an overwhelming majority of Romans." How on earth did that happen? You do realize Christianity was one of the causes of Rome's fall, right? Religious tensions between people started tearing the empire apart.

"Hi, black market? It's Japan. One nuclear bomb please. Yes, to go. Thank you."

Yes, because nuclear warfare was SO appreciable in the OTL 1940s that we continued to make nukes for every single city on Japan.

Mars is coloniWHBZZWAITWHAT? That's it. I'm done.

You clearly have a ways to go before making interesting timelines. There are many factors to take in when considering something of this scale and you took in none. Though I'll admit I haven't seen very many wanks, this is one of the biggest wanks I've seen yet.