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How about this: Alexander gets Stateira pregnant after Issus (who gives birth to a boy) and lives 5-6 years longer. Thus, his kid would be around 14 at the time of his death

Some thoughts, assuming it gets built: - the British will be in a position to deploy an armoured brigade, if not more, to join the thrust into the Saarland, and may very well have practiced the maneuver in conjuction with the French repeatedly. It's an open question to what extent this changes...

It's possible that all four of them retain their importance

I was replying regarding the possibility of Taiwanese intervention - it would be THEIR destroyers

North Vietnam didn't have any warship bigger that a patrol boat. A competently led destroyer flottila would, IMHO, be enough to prevent landings in the short term

Could we see a third party, such as the RoC or the Philippines, prop up rump South-Vietnam-by-the-sea? Or would the US themselves step in eventually?

Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Sea_Campaign TL/DR: South Vietnam held a bunch of islands, ranging from tiny to small, which the North Vietnamese occupied during the final collapse of the south's army. ITTL, Phu Quoc, Con Dao and the Spratlys are held by the ARVN, perhaps on...

For purposes of the discussion, we'll assume the following: 1. Ottomans remain neutral (and are allowed to stay that way, with stuff like Britain not invading Mesopotamia or a parallel Greco-Turkish war erupting) 2. The war drags on for ~4 years, give or take, with everyone exhausted and...

Would Constantinople remain an international city, or be part of Greece though?

There were bits and pieces that were still conceivable, as well as various opportunistic landgrabs. 1. Timok Valley This is south of the Danube, roughly were the Romanian, Serbian and Bulgarian borders meet, and where there's a funny bend in the course of the Danube. By many accounts, there was...

So basically the Turks would likely get to keep them?

The idea is that the Germans would fail to dislodge the Turkish beachheads, and then surrender shortly afterwards when the overall surrender of German forces takes place. Great analysys btw. My gut feeling is that we would end up with #3

How much more ugly? Do you expect Greece to try an invasion of Rhodes?

Between the Turkish entry in February and the wars end in early May, there was a narrow window during which the Turks could have managed to get boots on the ground in at least some of the Aegean Islands still occupied by the Germans sinced the botched British attempt to aid the Italian forces...

You probably need a third party eating away at FDR's margin just enough for Hoover to squeak out a narrow plurality in a bare minimum of states for an Electoral College victory

imho, deploy in Belgium along the Antwerp-Bruxelles-Namur line, and then along the Meuse river and blunt the German attack. Defend in the west, and occupy the German colonies whilst blockading Germany proper. Blow up the nitrate stockpiles in Antwerp.

Britain used them to colonize Australia. There's no such pretense here. It's just wasting inordinate amounts of money. IRL, we have actual examples of what happened when Constantinople wanted to exile someone (e.g. Justinian II) someplace - they picked Crimea. A place not impossible to get...

Traveling was expensive - you need to pay for boats to carry your people across the world instead of doing actually useful things like fishing or hauling goods to be traded. You probably need to then buy another set of boats once in Scandinavia, or at least replace some of the original ones. You...

Would a German tactical victory where Beatty's ships are sent to the bottom, and then everyone else returns to port, the blockade maintained, have any sort of other ramifications? Political/diplomatic? Different strategic choices?

Ok, so after a bit of research, this will be how things look like navally on day 1: Assuming the French keep their forces in the Mediterranean to block the Austrians and do nothing else, while the Russians are ignored due to being mostly bottled up due to unfavorable geography, this is how...