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  1. Absolute Millennium

    This style of posting is NOT allowed on the Board. The dominant content must be text, not images. The rule of thumb is a solid paragraph of text, if not more, for every image. Locked due to image spamming.
  2. The M-BAM Main Thread

    Wow. Not only did you FAIL to get the top of the page, but you also earned a kick. Might want to rethink things going forward.
  3. Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes IV (Do not post Current Politics Here)

    You have Rubio as POTUS today. Doesn't get much more political.
  4. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    It would have failed. By the time of the POD the WAllies had broken Enigma, with Bell Labs having built on the efforts of Betchley Park to the point that by mid 1943, a three rotor message could be broken in around ten minutes i.e. "real-time" (four rotor took considerable more time, but were...
  5. Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes IV (Do not post Current Politics Here)

    Not really. Eventually I'll start kicking and/or Banning folks for repeated violations. Even before that point is reached the message is likely to get through. One of the interesting things here is that the membership has something close to a group memory. Most of the time it doesn't need to...
  6. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    From post 100 in this thread
  7. Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes IV (Do not post Current Politics Here)

    Current politics should NOT be posted outside of Chat. This has repeatedly been stated IN THIS THREAD. There is a current politics wikibox thread in Chat. Please use it. Please DO NOT post current politics in this thread.
  8. The Course of Human Events

    No posts in FOUR YEARS. The OP hasn't logged on in over a year. Yet to still decided to click right through the warning banner. Ya. Maybe this warning will be somewhat more clear. DO NOT repeat.
  9. Soviet-Japanese Border Conflicts Escalate to War, Does Hitler invade the USSR early?

    They were mobilized enough to put ELEVEN Active regular army divisions into the Saar (roughly 140,000 men). That means they suffered a TOTAL casualty rate of 1.4%. I have yet to find any breakdown by KIA/WIA/MIA/PoW, beyond the "nearly 2,000" killed, wounded, and sick. It seems likely, based on...
  10. Soviet-Japanese Border Conflicts Escalate to War, Does Hitler invade the USSR early?

    I don't think the French would necessarily take Berlin. although a robust French offensive that seized a reasonable chunk of the Saar Border area, pushing past the Siegfried Line might be enough to get the General Staff, who was no great fan of Hitler, to decide that it was time for the...
  11. Soviet-Japanese Border Conflicts Escalate to War, Does Hitler invade the USSR early?

    "Go big" might be misleading on my part. IOTL the French entered Germany with eleven divisions (close to a full army) on Sept 7, 1939 and punched through on a 20 mile front to a depth of 5-6 miles with the only opposition being from minefields and the occasional picket. While French mobilization...
  12. WI: Japan builds less tanks?

    Yes and no. There were a lot of factors, including Yamashita's brilliant use of amphibious movement to bypass strong points, but the IJA tanks, and the "tank fever" they created had a decisive impact in several engagements. Malay was near run thing, Yamashita was very close to the end of his...
  13. WI: Japan builds less tanks?

    Well, as bad as they were Yamashita probably wouldn't have taken Malaya and Singapore without them (of course some seriously defective British 2 pdr AP rounds didn't exactly help the British either)
  14. AHC: Get a US President's approval ratings as low as Francois Hollande.

    37% 9/8 -9/11 2011. Useful overview for this discussion (via Roper): https://web.archive.org/web/20130125211805/http://webapps.ropercenter.uconn.edu/CFIDE/roper/presidential/webroot/presidential_rating.cfm
  15. AHC: Get a US President's approval ratings as low as Francois Hollande.

    Really, really tough. In the polling Era, which only goes back to FDR, so none of the pre 1932 POTUS can be considered, the lowest were Nixon (at the height of the Oil Embargo, with gas rationing & mid-Watergate) and Truman mid-Korean War (Gallup had them both at 22% approval, although CBS...
  16. If you could change one event in history pre 1900

    Nor was the intolerance solely aimed at pagans or Muslims. A personal favorite is the 4th Crusade, where the Armies of the Faithful decided to take a detour and sack Constantinople. Never did reach the Holy Land. The vast destruction of the Eastern Empire also greatly weakened the primary...
  17. Wank off the Dutch

    Stop. Now.
  18. If you could change one event in history pre 1900

    Undoubtedly. I would, however, lean toward a stronger condemnation of not just Christianity, but of my own faith, Roman Catholicism, in the area of "convert or die". The Spanish and Portuguese were very heavy into the "Cross or the Sword" as a policy, even when they weren't extremely heavy...
  19. Would IJN have done better at Midway with four Illustrious class?

    BTW: Now that I've had to put on the Mod hat, I will, per usual, withdraw from further participation in the discussion in this thread.
  20. Would IJN have done better at Midway with four Illustrious class?

    Japs? Really? Unless you are either quoting a wartime source or writing dialogue for a character engaged in WW II, please refrain from ethnic or racial slurs.
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