Commonly abbreviated to AH Cliches (no accent because we’re a bunch of lazy francophobes), these describe certain concepts, technologies, events and scenarios that tend to crop up in a large number of timelines, particularly those written by those unfamiliar with the wider AH community.

• Airships

• Premodern Japan as a great power

• Ridiculously overpowered Ireland

• Disunited Germany.

• Disunited Italy

• Pan-Slavist Romania - a common misconception is that Romanians are Slavic people and that they would want to join a Pan-Slavic movement of their neighbours.

• Pan-Turkic Tajikistan - similar to the above, the misconception that Tajiks are Turks, where as in reality they are Persians.

• Pan-anything - While movements such as Pan-Arabism, Pan-Germanism and Pan-Slavism existed in OTL, that doesn’t mean other, sometimes ridiculous varieties would have existed in ATL.

• Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

• Bland, united India

• Randomian Congo

• That damned Kazakh border

• Uber Cornwall

• Uber Brandenburg

• Zheng He

• Space filling empire

• German Techwank

• Space programme changes: Generally, absolutely any TL which involves any change at all to the OTL space programme will result in a vastly more extensive and successful one than OTL. Even if the change consists of Neil Armstrong wearing red socks instead of white on March 14th 1967.

See also: FH Clichés