It's not that the barges were so bad but that they would be very vulnerable against small attack craft like destroyers. The Allies' landing craft of 1944 on wards had the advantage of being almost totally protected from any seaborne threat by the massive Allied combined naval force.
The upshot...
Just want to make it known that i'm still reading and very much enjoying this timeline. One thing i'm still not sure on though is that despite the large number of warships and settlements i always imagined the total population of Madagascar being quite low.
If you include all the pirates of...
Before that but after lend-lease the American public was, iirc, over 2 thirds against war with Germany.
Before the Axis declarations, there wasn't much of a direct cause for war in the States
without pearl the US would never have been directly involved with Japan, despite the atrocities. Roosevelt had a hard enough time convincing the public that fighting Germany was necessary. The embargo was an effective means of forcing American policy onto Japan without intervening in their war...
I don't think that the Japanese naval forces around the Philippines could have achieved anywhere near the decisive success that they wanted, the IJN did have some luck at Leyte, managing to get a fleet near to the landing fleet without encountering the USN carriers. Then getting another fleet to...
Strangely the best way for Germany to win that battle would have been not to fight it at all. With Germans waltzing all over europe and with no visible enemy to fight at home, we probably would have lost the will to fight on.
exactly the same as all other versions, Steam just acts like the game launcher. You can actually play the game even with steam closed.
just go to your steamapps folder and common and it's all there in Darkest hour. Put mods into the mods folder and fire her up, the game launcher has a mod...
Hi all, had a quick search through the forums but couldn't find anything relating to this recently so i decided to throw a quick thread up.
Would there be any way of making the Abwehr more effective? would it take as little as replacing Canaris with someone more sympathetic to Nazi goals...