Instead of feuding with New York (NY would never start a war against something as simple as NJ over something so little, worst case Tony would've got whacked by his own on orders of the Commission)

It would've been more realistic if not likely that an internal war broke out into two factions; The Soprano Faction and the Aprile Faction

Aprile Faction would have gotten supported by Lupertazzis, but the other NY families may have been against them, supportin the Official boss.

Soprano Faction would have had no choice but to either cozy up with the other families, most likely Philadelphia.

Aprile Faction would have consisted of

Richie Aprile 'Boss(Not murdered by Tonys ugly sister)
Ralph Cifaretto
Jackie Aprile and his youngsters
and others I dont care to name.

What would've been interesting is seeing the Sopranos on the losing side, until say Paulie picks up Jackie Jr. and talks him into murdering Richie.

The murder goes through, Jackie gets Chris's position and grows up.
Tony gets indicted because of the war and the police attention, or whacked out by Phil Leotardo. In this cenario, Leotardo is not murdered by the NJ Mob. Because that is unlikely.

The New head of the DiMeo Crime Family would be

Boss - Patsy Parisi (would be Larry but he's under house arrest)
Underboss - Paulie Gualtieri (what position these two would have can be debated)

Consigliere - vacant / Silvio / Larry Barese

Capos;

Paulies nephew Paulie Germani
Jackie Aprile
Barese
Benny Fazio

Soldiers (known)

Pat Blundetto - retired
Giuseppe Scerbo - retired
Belfiore
Mulmur Zancone
Dante Greco
and probably some of Jackie's hoods.

The positions of made guys and capo may vary a little seeing there is 30+ members seen through the series who might have gone upped and or whacked by the winning faction.

Whaddaya guys think?

In the show Ritchie Aprile wanted to kill tony and ask the support of junior but he know that tony is more strong.
Tony was friend of Johnny sack,had ties with the camorra and had strong capos like Paulie,Silvio,Junior (as front boss) ecc while Ritchie had maybe Ralph Cifaretto,Patsy Parisi for revenge his brother,his nephew jackie jr and his bunch of idiot wannabes.
And what about Pontecorvo ?
In which side the feds will ordered to stay ?

Soprano faction

Front boss: Corrado junior Soprano
Street boss: anthony soprano
 

Capos

Paul Gualtieri
Silvio Dante
Chris Moltisanti
Furio Giunta (neapolitan faction)

Allied: camorra,russian mafia

Aprile faction

Boss:Ritchie Aprile

Capos

Patsy Parisi
Ralph Cifaretto

Allied: Vipers mc,philly mob

Wasn't that the plot of season 2? Of course, it never got to full scale war, thanks to Janice.

Were the Vipers going to try to get their vintage wines back?

Apart Ritchie Aprile there no others that can start a war against Tony Soprano and maybe win it.

Feech LaManna? Tony feared him because he was powerful and had a lot of support. I can Imagine

Boss - Richard Aprile
Underboss - Micele 'Feech' LaManna
Consigliere - Patsy Parisi

with Junior and all his supporters. I wish Gigi Cestone never died thou, he was one of my favorites. Probably the most realistic character. And by season 4 or so Eugene Pontecorvo would've joined The Apriles and Spatafore was powerful and would have had Richie's side because they are related with, but if Richie didn't die - Then maybe Ralph Cifaretto would still come back from Florida to support Tony, they have been friends since they were hoods. And then maybe later on, with the family split in two and war raging that Tony would become too greedy and most of his crew would despise him, NY notices and quickly supports Richie.

I hated seeing Furio go, I loved the two sided extremes he could pull off.

Do people really think Jackie Aprile Jr could run the Aprile crew?

With the construction intrests the only one that could run it efficiently was Ralphie