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  1. Chris Oakley

    What if the Luftwaffe used airships

    Especially if they had the misfortune to stumble across a patrol of Mustangs or Spitfires.
  2. Chris Oakley

    Northern Limit Line

    Along with those tunnels North Korea is digging its own grave.
  3. Chris Oakley

    AH Title and Description Game

    An ASB timeline about a NASA-type agency that explores parallel dimensions. The Battle Of Galveston
  4. Chris Oakley

    DBWI: Operation Sealion never attempted

    And Admiral Raeder wouldn't have gotten strung up by the Gestapo after what amounted to a kangaroo court-martial by a Nazi regime looking to make him a scapegoat for the Sealion disaster.
  5. Chris Oakley

    DBWI: Scharnhorst not sunk by Glorious

    Learned from it and then some....between the @$$-kicking they gave the Japanese at Wake Island and the surprise Soviet air raids on the Kuriles in the summer of '42, the IJN basically ceased to exist as a coherent fighting force after Nagumo's execution.
  6. Chris Oakley

    DBWI: Scharnhorst not sunk by Glorious

    That was peanuts compared to what Tojo did when Nagumo gave the recall order to his carrier task force after his plans for attacking Pearl Harbor went to hell. Poor guy wasn't back on Japanese soil five minutes before Tojo had him arrested and shot. And then he proceeded to unleash a purge on...
  7. Chris Oakley

    How effective would a Landkreuzer be?

    My thoughts exactly.
  8. Chris Oakley

    Historical Ironies...

    Some sports-related historical irony for you... John Elway, the quarterback who led the Denver Broncos to back-to-back Super Bowls in the late '90s, was originally drafted by the Baltimore Colts but wouldn't sign with them because of some personal animosity between him and then-Colts head...
  9. Chris Oakley

    Nazi Mega Weapons

    For starters, the Wehrmacht could have built and deployed more armored vehicles and field artillery.
  10. Chris Oakley

    DBWI: Was the nuking of Paris justified?

    Thanks for the 411.
  11. Chris Oakley

    The Fourth of May

    At the very least he's going to be walking around with a huge bull's-eye on his back.
  12. Chris Oakley

    The Fourth of May

    It makes "For All Time" look positively utopian-- and I've only just started reading it.
  13. Chris Oakley

    DBWI: Was the nuking of Paris justified?

    IC: God only knows. OOC: C'mon, guys, don't keep me in suspense here! What's the POD?
  14. Chris Oakley

    DBWI: Was the nuking of Paris justified?

    (OOC: For those of us just tuning in late, what's the POD here?) IC: If one or two things had worked out differently, we might now be arguing about whether the French were justified in nuking Berlin.
  15. Chris Oakley

    Plausibility Check: Second Balkan War escalates into world war

    Well, if you wanted my attention, you've certainly got it now. :D
  16. Chris Oakley

    AH Title and Description Game

    Simon and Garfunkel are arrested at the height of the Vietnam War after writing a protest song that J. Edgar Hoover is convinced is meant as a call for armed revolt against the Johnson Administration. Riots break out across the country as the more radical factions of the U.S. anti-war movement...
  17. Chris Oakley

    Worldwide Soviet Union.

    This. The idea of the Soviet Union achieving world domination in the 1920s is an ASB scenario if I ever heard one.
  18. Chris Oakley

    AH Title and Description Game

    A future history TL outlining possible scenarios for the outbreak of civil war in Saudi Arabia. Rather than do the broad story arcs normally associated with these kinds of timelines, this one opts to look at things from a grunt's-eye point of view. The three main characters are a rebel fighter...
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