- Appealing to alternate history fans. The appeal of alternate history is the fact that it's an actual debate you can have fun with *forever*. Someone posits a single change to history and everyone debates what the effect might be. It's impossible to know, but every contributor can keep finding more and more evidence from history to support their opinion. Doesn't a single-serving "this is the alternate history of something" blorb with some internet guy's changes throughout defeat the purpose? Here's how Wing Commander works when I say it that way. Well, that's an interesting thought, but Fleet Action states that... oh, no, I changed that, it's not relevant anymore, this is how it works now.
Just to be sure I understand what you're saying, is that his AH of WC is too broad and hard to focus on for AH debate?
Whereas the (possible) AH element of Standoff is a little more focused and easier to debate (since we did have a fairly good sized discussion thread on the 'best' ending of Standoff)?