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Old 03-02-2012, 08:30 AM   #4
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Default Re: [IW] Non-Nazi Germany-Dominant World?

I do have the feeling that you would have to branch out later, especially considering the timeline of the book you cited (post-Baroque, mostly). If you've got a dominant Hanseatic world, with the rest of contemporary (and/or historic) Germany out of the game, the end result would probably be closer to Dutch colonialism. (One way out of this would be including the Fugger family somehow)

With your premise, the Prussians might seem a good approach (Can't believe I'm saying that). Let them take a grater part in the Napoleonic wars, with Blücher taking over Wellington's role. Then they take over France, form some coalition with the new US. Then the civil war has some slightly different premise and a radically different outcome. Maybe some kind of protectorate system, although you'd have to be careful not to enter some "Man in the High Castle" situation. For a secure dominant position, Prussia has to take over Russia, of course.

Edit: Maybe another starting point would be a unified Germany (1871) that included the Austro-Hungarian Empire - and then either some grand diplomacy preventing the first World War or winning it.

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