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  1. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Turkey carrying cargo for either side is a no-go.

  2. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    So this could make a significant difference after all?

  3. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    A lot depends on if the Axis have the Corinthian Canal open yet. If they don't, getting stuff to the Strait in the first place will be a challenge.

  4. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    That doesn't preclude shipping within the Black Sea itself. If the Black Sea becomes an Axis lake, that could lead to the Axis using it to ship goods without requiring trains.

  5. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Well one big thing he could do would be to build up Rhodes and Crete as air-bases, and bomb the merry hell out of Ploesti. At the very least, having to keep aircraft back to stop the Breitish bombing their oil wells will decrease the number of fighters the Germans have at the front. I was more...

  6. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Losses on the German side for the North African campaign, according to wikipedia, amounted to ~22K troops killed or missing, and ~180K captured, plus the loss of (collectively with the Italians), 2,550 tanks ~70,000 trucks, ~6,200 guns, ~8,000 aircraft and ~2.4M tonnes of shipping. Sure this...

  7. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Exactly. In North Africa, the Axis didn't bring nearly enough logistical support, and so were working with captured British equipment a lot of the time. That's going to limit how much the Axis can manage in the Soviet Union. Sure they can do a bit better, capture more troops and the like, but I...

  8. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Speaking of Poland, if the Soviets lose more, it's possible the Warsaw Uprising never happens, or happens much differently.

  9. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Hm, I wonder if we might avoid the Warsaw Pact this time around, or at least, such a strong one. If the Soviets hit the bottom of their manpower reserves earlier, they might not be able to take as much as they did OTL.

  10. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Well having Pantelleria will make it a bit easier to run the occasional fast convoy trough the Med.

  11. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    The location of the post is given as Tunis as well. I just didn't expect the stitch of loyalties to have happened off-screen as it were.

  12. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    So you meant Tripoli rather than Tunis?

  13. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    So Tunis at least has joined the allies?

  14. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Feed everything back through Garbo.

  15. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    The Marder I was based on the Lorraine 37L, the II on the Panzer II, and the III on the Panzer 38(t), so the official Marders should have been too heavily affected by earlier developments.

  16. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    More like vehicle tyres and other things.

  17. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    I suspect the HVAP round was rare in Europe because no-one realised they'd be needed, so they didn't bother shipping any. And who knows, with Victors likely to be far more numerous in Dunkirk than Fireflies, perhaps they won't need them. Well I was actually thinking about the lesser...

  18. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    There's plenty of rubber plantations in Malaya whose products can be sold to the Americans to reduce the amount owed.

  19. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Fewer Matildas and Crusaders, and the Valiant I is easy easy enough to upgrade to the Valiant II, as it's mostly a new turret, and the old ones can be melted down to save on resources. Well there's fewer ships in need of repair, so that's the likely source. I mean, at least ships use steel...

  20. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    It could with M93 HVAP round. That achieved penetration stats at 1500m that other rounds managed at only 100m.
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