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Just a musing after a lecture in my WW2 course today on the Battle of Britain. Is it possible to get most of the cargo sent on the channel convoys sent by rail to avoid the fighting over the channel, or is there just not enough rail capacity to alleviate these shipments?

So I saw this game (if you can call it that, more of a sandbox full o' hardware and tech) on the Steam Sale and finally picked it up, and maybe I'm a little late to the party on this but DAMN is it good. Which leads me on to thinking that maybe I could use it to sim engagements for ATLs? I...

So I've been playing a lot of World of Warships lately and I'm just starting to get into the CVs. The first one in the game's the Langley. And I guess that has me wondering: is there a situation where we could get a carrier vs. carrier engagement before Coral Sea with some of the earlier...

All these "Conventional WW3" threads have made me dig out my copy of Red Storm Rising. As always, my favorite part of the book is Operation Dreamland with the hypothetical Lockheed F-19 "Frisbee." Reading it again kinda got me wondering if there were any other potential designs out there...

So. Couldn't sleep last night and started playing with AH scenarios in my head (because, y'know, that makes so much more sense than studying for midterms... :) ) from the late 30s. Munich's been a recurring theme. So basically what I'm wondering is: Is there any way for the Allies to say "No...

Is there any way to realistically delay the Washington Naval Treaty? I'm basically only asking to see if there's any possible way to have the Lexingtons built as battlecruisers.

With some of the talk of railroading on the forums lately I've been wondering: Is it possible to keep Nigel Gresley's A4 Pacific "Mallard" as the holder of the world speed record? Personally I'm inclined to doubt it - The cooperation between the Pennsy and the N&W in the 50s that led to the...

I realize there's no way that it ends well for the USN, and I also realize that it had basically been abandoned at the time, but is there any possible chain of events (other than Kimmel getting bashed with the stupid bat over the head several hundred times) that the Japanese abandon the Pearl...

While we've been on the topic of alternate aircraft lately, I've been wondering a lot about Boeing's vaunted "Five in one fighter." As far as I can see (by my very, VERY limited expertise) the F8 was a stellar design and had a lot of promise, but clearly was killed off by the advent of jets. So...

So, I've been playing around with this for a few weeks as a means to get the Pacific Fleet destroyed outside of Pearl Harbor as the beginning to my take on the war in the Pacific. I played around with Plan Orange for a while, but frankly that's too goddamned implausible. Not sure if this is much...

So for the sake of argument (pick any reason you so desire) say that Nazi Germany has survived until late '45/early '46. Also operating under the assumption that the Luftwaffe doesn't have its head up its ass, the Me-262 has been in squadron service for quite some time now. This leads to the...

I've been trying to figure out a way to prolong the life of the Luftwaffe for at least a few months. Say for some reason North American's design for the Mustang is rejected by the USAAF (call it anything you want - crash of the prototype, for instance). What do we see as escort fighters (even if...

So I've been playing around with the idea of a third world war around 1949 or so. Most people assume the US to go head on with the atomic bombs in continental Europe at this point, but say for the sake of argument that thanks to protests against the atomic attacks on Japan in 45 Truman decides...