Re: Benkarnell
Hi thank you! I'm aware of the difference between hard and soft and sort of lean between the two (sometimes I go with a consequence of a change in the TL other times I work to figure out how to get a certain result though I generally try to stick to what's mostly realistic) but I thank you for giving me a little more in depth of a response regarding the two so I can use them for further reference :)
That list of nations I have so far is completely tentative though as there are some parts I still need to work out and others that I'm very intent on holding onto. My main goal is to just make a TL that is somewhat plausible but at the same time changes as much as possible about history as a whole both in government, history, and borders :) TYSM!
Re: Nathan1123
Hi! Thank you for responding, I really appreciate it. My original idea for an independent Louisiana was to have it be granted independence to act as a buffer between the UK and US after the War of 1812 however I think the idea of granting it to the Spanish is far more realistic and will most likely be the route I choose going forward.
However, I originally thought that without Louisiana Southern need for expansion might increase instead of being blown away entirely without westward territory as now the north has a far stronger majority to just outright outlaw it. With this more intense need for expansion I thought that more states may secede and even grant the CSA it's independence. And with the CSA in there WWI and WWII would probably be much different.
I guess I'm not really one for super hard Alt Hist and just more so "this MIGHT have happened if X happened, so what if it did". Makes things a lot more interesting I guess. Though your point of no outright opposing superpower will actually help a lot with the Cold War Era history I've been struggling with for awhile, so thanks for that :) I just thought that there might've been a way to change just the basic strokes of history but I have a feeling they're unavoidable by the 19th Century. TYSM again!
I'm currently working on my own timeline on the wiki and I'm finding it quite difficult to fully change history as I feel like everything, while noticeably very different, still follows basically the same beats (World War I, II, the Cold War between Capitalism and Commies), and I just wondered how y'all work to make everything different? For reference, my ATL is this:
I thank anyone willing to respond and give their two cents :)
