Recent content by HJ Tulp

Haha you mean Furstner? Yeah, it's pretty weird that I dislike the personality of my protagonist isn't it? :D I might actually like Helfrich less actually! Helfrich's character is more likeable in my opinion, but the stuff he pulled as commander of the navy in the Indies -along the lines of the...

I'm sad to say that it's not a cliffhanger! Not for the next update anyway. We still have a few more steps to go until the Second World War starts I'm afraid, if only to fully grasp the development of Dutch submarine tactics and doctrine. There will be a whole bunch of changes when the shooting...

I would certainly agree but how was this viewed by contemporaries? To quote Nicholas Jellicoe's The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet: 'Beatty never fully agreed with these suggestions [for alternatives to the historical surrender]. [...] [H]e had written to the First Lord saying that the Royal...

I somewhat agree with Garrison on this. However, it does leave the RN more exposed to those that claim that the days of the battleship are over. The likes of Percy Scott are certainly not pacifists, but they do want a different RN from OTL. You might see a RN with far less battleships and...

Thanks to the both of you! My apologies for the hiatus between this update and the last. Work has been - almost literally - crazy the past month. Fortunately things have quieted down a bit recently so that leaves more room for sleep and writing. Hopefully I will be able to get into the rhythm...

The battleship would be in big, big trouble. Basically, if the GF and HSF don't battle each other at all the submarine will be seen as the culprit, for having chased the GF to Scapa Flow.

VII. False Start ‘De hele vaderlandse slagvloot naar de kelder gejaagd, zonder dat het ook maar een enkel schot gelost had. Tot zinken gebracht niet door den vijand, maar door den eigen volksvertegenwoordiging. Sinds Pichegru’s ruiters had den Marine geen schandelijkere nederlaag gesmaakt.’...

That and the fact that they were (semi-) Fascists.

Two different procurement paths actually, as the Dutch army and the KNIL were two totally different entities. This could also mean that the KNIL never adopts the Finnish small arms. With regards to the significance, I agree that, in the greater scheme of things, small arms usually have small...

AFAIK Plan Orange did stipulate the Asiatic Fleet to evacuate once its part in the defense of the Philipines was untenable. It did not specify where to. I don't critisize OTL Hart for his decision to retreat the Asiatic Fleet towards the south, hell I don't even critisize OTL for his wish to...

I'm not 100% about Catroux to be honest. He gave up his resistance because the British wouldn't guarentee support against the Japanese, would this be different ATL?

Defeatist: an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat. One can be both realist and defeatist at the same time. Don't get me wrong, OTL Hart was one of the more competent commanders in a theatre that was filled with incompetents, and when he was made ABDAFLOAT commander he...

Was Hart already this defeatist before Pearl Harbour? I always thought it was the destruction of the US fleet there, the quick Japanese advance in the Philippines and his mode of retreat that caused that.

Was an earlier PH-attack technically possible in September? Basically for this to happen though, you need to get the Greater-Asian faction to gain the upper hand. Not sure yet what political machinations need to happen in Tokyo for that situation to exist though.

If Japan does this it puts itself very clearly outside the international order at a much earlier point in time. OTL the Japanese didn't declare war on the Netherlands until the end of December '41, this because they had the hope that they could 'Indochina' the DEI. If Japan decapitates...