Recent content by cracou

Let's have a serious look at the main consequences: 1) the first air attack just can't happen the same way. As most planes are far far behind the lines russians get a much better warning (300km = 30-45mn), attacks are less effective (try to find a base far from your territory, at night, with...

Britain will attack Germany if Germany attacks Belgium, nothing change there. The main difference is that the French Navy will have to protect the channel but at the same time in 1900 French are un a MUCH better situation as they have their new 75mm gun (germans are one generation behind)...

To make the French better prepared you can change some little things: 1/ allow mobilisation one full day before 2/ develop medium artillery such as a 120/150mm gun. It would allow them to counter the German ones 3/ change training to give more emphasis on fire 4/ just put some more MG. Just...

Well, England can allow colonies to send representatives.... It would solve a lot of things, no?

Some good ideas! Not a chance. Germany was occupied and not allowed to have an army. It was allowed in 56 only as it was sen as an easy way of getting troops for the cold war. Any German leader pushing for militarism would have been eliminated by American / English / French / Soviet / Pole and...

Not really. They've lost they single army and they don't have any prospect of building a new one. The problem is that they all want to remove Naponeon but they want somebody else to do the job. They all noticed that after 1814 England took the best part and was able to earn a LOT of money from...

No. North army group has been staying in place for months or years in a highly defensible area (rivers and forests). No, thy didn't ask for that (before Bagration). This is an urban legend. Rational? Retreating and allowing your enemy to be close enough to bomb your coal/iol convering...

>Napoleon II would obviously be declared Emperor, yes > with Marie-Louise as regent. Not a chance. Just the wife of the emprror, no political power.

Article 5 is not that: when a country is attacked, the other ones MUST defend it with all their molitary poser. Yes it has been designed with the cold war in mind but it works the same way as the article is still the same. If they don't answer "as if they have been attacked" well, the...

Nonsense. With an infant mortality of 50% and a wife mortality close to 10% you need a miracle (well many of them) to have 10 living children before 1930!

You're funny. I say that a T34 would roll on them and ou answer with - "aahhh, they have a par 36". no they don't, they have the old 37mm bofor - "ahhh but the soviet have many T36". This is not the question, I'm talking about T34. - "ahhhh but they have the 50mm". No rumanians don't have...

Indeed and the rumanians had some outdated 37mm short... You confuse AT artillery and field artillery. Completely different. So try to understand his statistics. You deliberately skew them in a funny way... Irrelevant here: soviers attack and thus had time to deploy, maintain and fuel the...

Because you state that Glantz is using a lot of statistics... It's my job to be able to create and read them. It's obviously not yours... Again, try to read good historiy about Japan. Which allies? ok, artillery is going to stop the T34... You're funny

They remained in Sparta for some funny religious reason, IIRW

priests were married in western europe until more or less 900-1100 One funnything is that at the time brothels belonged most of the time to the city and only those who could read and count could become managers... so more often than not the local priest / clergyman / biship was also the brothel...