Recent content by gaijin

This ignores basic human psychology. The Germans have reached Moscow, the Russians are crying uncle, so what do the Germans think now?? Option a. We have clearly showed the Russians we can not be trusted, inflicted some serious defeats on them but nothing final, received serious casualties in...

Uhm no. The wehrmacht in general and the officer corps in particular were fully on board in regards to attacking the Soviet Union. Notice the total lack of institutional resistance to the plan. The overwhelming majority of the officer corps agreed with Hitler that the Soviet Union was a threat...

That is not correct. The German army relief on speed of manoeuvre as its main weapon. For that it needed to be able to move ad quickly as possible. Russia had two "mud seasons" or to use the Russian word rasputitsa, one in fall one in spring. Barbarossa was launched as soon as the land had...

Objectively speaking there was also no reason to invade Iraq, besides the ideological imperative to spread democracy and remake the Middle East. This would provide reason enough. I remember that after the invasion of Iraq and before things went balls up there, there was indeed talk of doing...

It doesn't make that clear at all. But how else can we make the Germans win?

Uhm, no. This did not almost happen, not even close. If the Germans let the Soviets invade the Soviets simply sit on their ass and say "No no, by all means, be my guest, after you". You know, like they did in reality. Stalin may have made many mistakes but he wasn't stupid enough to fall for...

Obviously they would have a moon base by the year 15 BC then 7 years after that someone invents a segway, it gets stuck in the desert sand and everybody decides "fuck this technology lark" and they all go back to hunting gathering

We did decide we wanted to keep them. Turns out the locals didn't want us to stay.

And let's be honest, if you can't be bothered to procure a human skull you aren't really trying.

Not shocking at all. AAA improves defensive capabilities which is what the Germana needed post 1942. It does little to improve offensive capabilities which is what Tomo Pauk was talking about.

It can be done but its going to be far from easy. It's not just a problem of pumping more oil and gad(if other sources have to serious ramp up production it might be time consuming). It is also a matter of logistics. Most of the Russian gas and lots of the oil comes via pipelines. If you...

So considering this takes place in 1938-1939 the IJN isn't a serious factor. Happy we got that sorted out. :biggrin: And let's not forget applying airpower isn't as simple as "Park planes in general vicinity, drop bombs on shit, profit!!!!" just like with all military matters it takes...

You really seem to be ignoring the matter of logistics here. Whatever the Japanese do, the Soviets can mirror and exceed. In other words, if the Japanese bring in an extra division, the Soviets match this to maintain the same general balance of forces. If the Japanese bring in three divisions...

Basically what Steamboy said. This isn't going to happen. The Japanese attacked the US because the US was sitting on supply lines to SE Asia. The Japanese needed to conquer SE Asia in order to get their hands on certain raw materials: oil, rubber etc. None of these they could get from Siberia...

But those few thousand tanks and half tracks have a logistical tail, they need fuel, spare parts, etc. That means more trucks, and those trucks need supplies and fuel in turn. Etc. Etc. If you have more vehicles you can retool a few more infantry divisions as armoured or tank divisions. These...