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  1. Concept Principle: A Northern Shoulder – The effects on the conduct of events on a Russian Front in WW2.

    FWIW I've always viewed the M-R Pact (historically) as backing Germany into a corner (albeit of their own volition), they lost their little trading bloc of Poland, Finland, and the Baltics, which leaves them almost solely dependent on the USSR during wartime. I've considered a scenario where...

  2. Were there any real war-winning weapons in WWII?

    agree/disagree with you (lol), while my view is that the V-2 was too much resources for too little bang (under any circumstances), it could have been produced absent an Eastern Front or bombing campaign. just IMO, the V-1 was the viable platform, they schemed one with small conventional jets...

  3. Finland Surrenders, 1939

    are we overlooking the possibility the USSR might launch some other adventures, if they have a little victory disease? and/or the Allied scheme to attack the Soviet oil producing regions (Operation Pike) actually attempted? Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, or some combination?

  4. Finland Surrenders, 1939

    it does not seem to me there would be a delay of Barbarossa, if anything it might lead to a little more limited plan?

  5. France warned about Operation Catapult

    a scenario where relations cross a point of no return and there is greater collaboration with the German side? not that the remaining French fleet would sail out to battle the RN but there could be a lot of clandestine aid to German u-boats and merchant raiders.

  6. Wacky Alternate Weapons

    not exactly wacky ... in reading about the high altitude duel between a British fighter and German JU-86, recall icing being an issue, wonder if the Germans devised some type of "squid" weapon to release steam or liquid "dye" or paint (or other) to blind any pursuing aircraft? guess that could...

  7. Were there any real war-winning weapons in WWII?

    the coupled engine arrangement always seems to me a specialist design, not something for mass production, at least not on the initial aircraft. my speculation would be for a 100-200 per year at the very most of an HE-119, but that might be productive because it was fast enough to be a recon...

  8. Were there any real war-winning weapons in WWII?

    my prior post alluded to the HE-177 as a reverse wonder weapon, it consumed at first glance 4,000 engines but due to the design issues and the engine fires that could be a much larger number. the HE-177 program also stymied other developments, evolutionary changes to existing designs and other...

  9. Were there any real war-winning weapons in WWII?

    it is a fascinating subject, to see pictures of rockets in a WWII timeframe as though transported there through time travel, but it did not really advance their military position and the amount of resources the program(s) consumed was so huge, it could not possibly have been increased(?) there...

  10. AHC: Make the US have much higher WW2 casualties

    along the same lines, Japan could declare war on the Soviet Union and the UK, not doing much against the Soviets other than blocking Lend Lease and seizing Sakhalin (under the theory if both were defeated the US would not be willing to bear the brunt of casualties)

  11. Were there any real war-winning weapons in WWII?

    the V-2 could be viewed as a reverse wonder weapon, not the research and prototypes, but the placing in large scale production that among other things seized up the German transportation network (such as it was by that time.) a "bookend" to their HE-177 bomber, which stymied other aircraft...

  12. Were there any real war-winning weapons in WWII?

    cannot be overstated how much the German torpedo issues hurt their efforts https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1599&context=etd fumbling away the technology behind the magnetic mine cost them?? months before the British might have solved the problem.

  13. Were there any real war-winning weapons in WWII?

    had the Germans resigned themselves to some form of asymmetrical warfare, no ships over say 20k tonnes, there would be a savings of materials as a bonus. a trifecta of properly tested torpedoes so they avoid at least the worst of their torpedo issues, magnetic mines, and guided munitions, a...

  14. Malta or Egypt in 1942: The right strategy

    FWIW I've found the KriegsTransporter ship interesting as it mounted a crane for unloading https://rommelsriposte.com/2014/12/20/the-kriegstransporter-programme/ but more interesting was the idea of a wet deck, carrying a pontoon...

  15. Would Germany have beat the Soviet Union if they could focus 100% of their power on them?

    FWIW my entire point of a larger naval effort is to deny the Soviets some or all of the evacuations that bolstered Leningrad. the Soviets added tens of thousands from Tallinn and Hanko which undeniably helped, along with tonnes of materials and the naval guns from the evacuating ships. what...

  16. Alternate WW2 Between Stresa Front + Japan vs. German-Soviet Axis + China

    the Gen. von Seeckt interwar plan was to cooperate with the USSR and China albeit not to ally with them, to maintain access to their nearly infinite resources. the Soviet battleship plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovetsky_Soyuz-class_battleship almost rivals the German Plan Z in...

  17. Alternate WW2 Between Stresa Front + Japan vs. German-Soviet Axis + China

    my scenario would be the Nazi regime strikes an earlier trade deal with the Soviets, both for its own benefits and to gain access through the USSR to China. Germany could trade naval technology, components, and even build large ships for the Soviets, who had battleship fleet aspirations, this...

  18. Would Germany have beat the Soviet Union if they could focus 100% of their power on them?

    while I agree with you, for Black Sea operations the Germans would need several major PODs, develop u-boats transportable overland (at least part of the way), have larger ships (which could be commercial ships) pre-positioned in the Black Sea, and the same with some fair numbers of S-boats...

  19. Would Germany have beat the Soviet Union if they could focus 100% of their power on them?

    what would be the effects from a capture of Leningrad? on the board and from your viewpoint. I agree with you to a point, the capture of Leningrad does not create logistical capacity for the Axis (beyond Leningrad) other than the fact their ships could transit freely to all the Baltic ports...

  20. Would Germany have beat the Soviet Union if they could focus 100% of their power on them?

    I agree with you but maritime actions would be easier on the Baltic Sea, that also aids them in capturing Leningrad, the front in the war they came closest to capturing. there were evacuations from Tallinn and Hanko that bolstered the Soviet defenses while they also retained flyspeck islands in...
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