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  1. WI: Baku falls in a highly implausible scenario in WW2.

    Euhhh, let me amend that: (Would it be better to edit the original post to reflect on such?) If we're going by the same logic that the game operates on, pro-German elements are at least in firm control of Tehran. I'm not sure whether Rezah Shah is in control anymore at this point (game's kind of...
  2. WI: Baku falls in a highly implausible scenario in WW2.

    I'm only bringing this up because I weekly play a wargame called World in Flames, and I never even consciously considered the following until the guy playing Germany, pulled off a coup not 2 hours ago. We're at the start of July, 1941, and Germany is ripping and tearing in all directions at the...
  3. WI: The British sieze the Azores in the spring of 1940

    I'm not so sure. A lot of the shipping to Malta went through the western Med, and Malta was the key to the supply interdiction that was giving Rommel trouble. Take Gibraltar, neutralize Malta, and suddenly an axis push to Suez doesn't seem all that ridiculous. You'd really probably need both...
  4. WI: The British sieze the Azores in the spring of 1940

    I'm sure everyone here appreciates the significance of the hole in air cover over the central atlantic had in the Battle of the Atlantic, and that the British were very interested in basing airplanes on the Portuguese held Azores Islands. They were able to secure them diplomatically, but by the...
  5. WW1 Breakout into the north sea?

    But this is a bad plan. If the north sea is denied to shipping of both powers, it hurts Germany a hell of a lot more than it hurts Britain. And even to do that, you have to overcome an enormous RN advantage in existing material and a much longer naval tradition, and you do kind of need to...
  6. WW1 Breakout into the north sea?

    Well, I wasn't sure whether or not to put it in a new thread or not, and I wanted to mull the idea over some more before I raised it here, but have you ever read Power at Sea by Lisle Rose? He offers as a possibility the idea of a suicide rush into the channel at the outbreak of the war with the...
  7. WW1 Breakout into the north sea?

    Really? Because I mean, I can see the difference between oil fuel and coal as fuel between the two wars, but those heavy German cruisers of WW2 managed to go quite far without resupplying for sailor provisions. I mean, were there significant advances in refrigeration or otherwise packing things...
  8. WW1 Breakout into the north sea?

    Stop, back up. I was under the impression that most of the German battlecruisers had operational ranges of a tad over 4,000 nm, with the dreadnoughts actually being a bit higher (around 5,000 or so) and the lighter cruisers being more similar to the dreads. Considering the North sea is only...
  9. WW1 Breakout into the north sea?

    Been doing a bit of reading on the naval aspect of WW1, and I was a little surprised to discover the British blockade of the German coast wasn't as complete as I had thought. Occasional raiders did slip through, and you had things like the shelling of Yarmouth and Scarsborough. So clearly, the...
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