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If you want to interdict shipping in the English Channel, your best bet is to build MAS boats. 2 MAS sunk a Austrian Dreadnaught Battleship.

Was at all plausible. The Germans having Jets and building nukes and so on.

[5] And some will already be able to guess the effect of Hiryū and Soryu being withdrawn to fight elsewhere. Quote That means that the American relief force that had a carrier will not turn back, because probably Kajioka's force will not have fighter air cover. This is a big chance for the...

Personally, I thought that the Confederacy would be conquered and annexed by the U. S. at the end of the Great War. The C. S. A./Prussia/Germany expy and U. S. A./France only goes so far. France did not have a claim on all of Germany before 1870, for example. The odds that WW1 even happens in a...

If the first Wake Island invasion force had actually landed their contingent of SNLF soldiers, they would probably have been wiped out, like the company of Japanese who landed on the Wilkes part of Wake Atoll.

If General George McClellan is not appointed to the post in 1861, and does anyone think that McClellan not being in command is a good or bad thing for the Union?

Anyone have any ideas?

Was James Wolfe Ripley correct that the Union army needed more basic muzzleloading rifle-muskets more than rapid fire breachloaders like the Sharps, Henry, and Spencer rifles? The U. S. Army being so small, only 16,000 effectives,certainly meant that any experienced cadre the U. S. Had was...

What would have been the most likely result if Grant lost the battle of Shiloh, and would the loss have resulted in the Civil War being won by the South? I do not think so, but I would like to hear other peoples opinions on the subject.

I had a conversation with some guy on Youtube about it. Any thoughts?

Sounds more effictive then Missippi pattern rifles made 20 years before and kept in militia armories for a rainy day. . .

One thing that always made me angry about the American Civil War is that, as far I can tell, the United States of America's Ordinance officer, a man named Ripley, wanted to equip the first 75,000 man Militia muster, with mostly smoothbore muskets and Springfield Armory Rifle-Muskets. There see...

You write about England having Serfs. In a TL with no Norman Conquest. England had Thralls before the Conquest, but no class of Serfs. So unless the Godwinson imposes Serfdom sometime after the POD, England should not have serfs.

Any chance of starting Viva Balbo! again?

Would the world have been better off if the Central Powers win WW1, or not? Assuming there is not another world war 20 years later?