Recent content by Permanganate

I like this TL. I'm interested in seeing how the Russian, Japanese, and US differences will change the 1910-1940 period.

I second that. I like your timeline.

That's one path, but not the only possible one, IMO. I liked this ATL, in which some adroit diplomacy by the Japanese in 1940 gets them their aims in the Pacific by allying with the British - and Germany and Japan are the only countries to do well in WW2. It seems plausible, if you accept the...

Yes, I get this impression. It's mainly because of very well timed wars, but there's some ridiculous luck in there. Before 1938, Germany would have lost against almost anyone, but no-one fought them, despite many reasons to. In 1939, they could only knock over a smaller power like Poland...

The Allied navy on Lake Geneva was lampshaded quite well...your co-commander sees an Allied dolphin and goes "Dolphins are not lake creatures! What is going on here?" and the Allied carriers are Chronosphered in from elsewhere. You certainly can't consider it AH, as it's relentlessly lunatic...

The V1 could be launched off one of the larger subs (Type IX, etc) with enough engineering work on designing a waterproof container, but it would really degrade performance, and the V1 can't hit much of anything anyway, since you need to launch well off from the target to avoid being sunk by the...

Remember that Schlachtschiff A, Deutschland, was renamed to Lutzow shortly after the war began, to avoid the public morale effect of a ship named after Germany being sunk. I think the H-class would probably be named after peoplem like B through G were; Hindenburg and Friedrich der Grosse are...

That's funny, but I was serious. It would be a great desktop background. But they want to sell you prints for $30 instead of giving you a good size image; the largest on their website is 1031x699, including a border.

That would be a good desktop background if it was bigger and had no watermark.

I missed this the first time. It's excellent.

Most of your post is reasonable, but I had to point out a problem here. Germany's research effort into atomic bombs had taken a completely wrong turn, thinking they needed bombs the size of a house for critical mass. Going down that path, they'd never get a bomb; not by 1948, not by 1958. They...

I'm interested in reading more about this timeline. More! :) Look at the flugdeckkreuzers on german-navy.de; it has more details than are given here. Some really silly designs from a nation with almost no carrier experience; the Grossflugzeugkreuzer A III and IV have the firepower of a small...

True, they have very little sealift, it's not meant for attacking beaches with, and their amphibious doctrine is almost nonexistent, but most of the Japanese forces on Hokkaido were mostly in the east, and they had hardly any mobility by August 1945. Also, there is vastly more air power...

It's a good start to a TL. I notice that the USNA border in Canada/Quebec is far north, which will probably mean that they get all of OTL eastern Canada by default. Most of Canada's population, even today, is close to the border, and all that land is in the USNA in this TL. The British have no...

Presumably you're not positing a landing between the OTL 1941 and 1945, given that they couldn't even successfully invade Britain during that period. For any chance of a successful German invasion of the USA after a historical 1940, you'd need a Germany which has Eurasia & North Africa and...