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Historically, the allies used deception to deflect from their destination of normandy, but what if the allies went for the shortest channel crossing instead? Would the shorter distance vs the better prepared germans at Calais be fatal? What if, as the germans thought, the allies merely launched...

One thing not mentioned sofar is the effect on powers that stayed neutral in historical ww2. I think for example that turkey would join the anti-soviet side, opening another front for the soviets, opening the black sea to hostile fleets entering through the dardanelles, dooming the soviet navy...

Hmm. I wonder what effect a fully fledged defense in depth line at the isthmus of crimea could have done in ww2. Historically Manstein had some headache crossing the old tatar ditch. The germans had no amphibious capabilities to speak of and their airborne formations were exhausted after Crete...

How about Chlodwig 497ish does not convert to the catholic faith, but the arianic faith (after Arius from Alexandria - people of that religion held that Jesus is not God, but was created)? In a book I recently read, it was claimed that the arianic faith would have led to a more decentralized...

Wasnt it a wisdom of Sun Tsu something along the lines of "Defend everything equally, and you defend nothing"? Anyways, the practicability of extending the maginot line into certain areas where you are forced to build underground installations into regularly flooded regions brings problems of...

I would suspect that the british fleet is not captured, but escaped and fights on or was sunk somehow. In any case, Nazi Germany has no fleet to challenge a US/Canadian/rest of GB fleet. As such I would think the best approach is to reconquer Britain and go from there.

I think penicilin (The USA had it, the Japs did not) played a factor that lessened the US casualties in comparison to the Japanese.

Much more powerful??? 13 TeV compared to 20 TeV doesnt sound like much more powerful.

That would require a bigger change in social view of what a "good" woman is supposed to do in the 1000-year Reich... namely staying at home and having and caring about lots of children... :D

redeployment of divisions For those of you who speculated that the OKW would send troops to france from the eastern front: This happened with the OTL raid. LSSAH was deployed away from the eastern front, even though Fall Blau was rolling.

Indeed, Stalin´s political moves seem a bit odd there. However i dont see the turks become close allies. Look at how the paths of Stalin and Tito diverged after ww2. Maybe with the soviets being more friendly, turkey would not become a NATO-member, but i full-blown soviet ally, i highly doubt...

Im not sure... how can a Ron Paul presidency be connected with a dystopian future? What exactly would cause that?

Oh i see. But i was talking about taking Stalingrad vs bombing it. Also phase 4 was not detailed at all in contrast to the other 3 phases. How could they expect that? And here it is where i see the contradiction again: If the germans iotl were biased in their intelligence (read crappy) abut...

I dont understand. You missed the point. Yes they did the damage, but "why settle for bombing when you know that this can be defended against and worked around eventually?" Damage can be repaired. Germany has learned that from bombing britain... So do the germans now think bombing stalingrad...

why settle for bombing when you can occupy? why settle for bombing, when you have no dedicated bomber force(see other thread)? why settle for bombing when you know that this can be defended against and worked around eventually? why choose a strategy where you plan to settle for bombing from the...

the intention was that the later luftwaffe´s potential be overestimated, and therefore was approved by reich officials. if france for example (and i remember reading about a french minister being quite impressed, almost scared) is bullied into being overly cautios because of the nice aircraft of...

Well, you wrote something like this: " Maybe then they post up on parts of the Don instead of advancing past" What´s the war-winning strategy behind that? I mean sure, maybe more oil butterflies away the whole barbarossa-event in 1941, but once you are there, you want to win, not dug in behind...

Well, thanks for reinforcing my point that "Stalingrad would still have happened, maybe with a little less reckless splitting of army group south into A and B and rushing towards the caucasus. Remember Hitler didnt just want to grab the oil in the south, he wanted to cut off the rest of...

Case blue was divided into 4 phases, the 4th and obviously last phase of grabbing the oilfields was only indicated and hinged upon the completion of the other 3 phases, which were planned in detail, namely 1) a pincer attack and the capture of the city voronesh, 2) aforementioned forces proceed...

Stalingrad would still have happened, maybe with a little less reckless splitting of army group south into A and B and rushing towards the caucasus. Remember Hitler didnt just want to grab the oil in the south, he wanted to cut off the rest of russia from the supply line that is the volga...