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  1. Would IJN have done better at Midway with four Illustrious class?

    Taiho? Undoubtedly the best possible example of IJN damage control procedures and basic design. One torpedo hit. Initially barely slowed the ship down, but there was no provision in the design to vent vapors from the elevator well. The best the D/C parties could come up with was to break out...
  2. Would IJN have done better at Midway with four Illustrious class?

    I am just picturing them figuring out a way to hook a spool up for a A6M and taking a cat shot. http://time.com/3924549/navy-aircraft-carrier-electromagnetic-launch/
  3. If you could change one event in history pre 1900

    Almost certainly not. The sorts of men who would take on that sort of voyage, and the sorts of leaders who would finance them, were not altruistic in the slightest. Arguably Christopher wasn't even the worst of the three brothers.
  4. If you could change one event in history pre 1900

    Distance is less of an issue than a number of other problems. Don't want to derail, but just a Moon isn't going to help.
  5. If you could change one event in history pre 1900

    It was far less the practice for Islamic explorers than for Christians, especially the Spanish and Portuguese. Christianity didn't even pay lip service to tolerance.
  6. WI: Columbus never reached the New World

    There were plenty of relatively lousy practices back in the day including becoming an apprentice (which basically tied you to the Master Craftsman for the seemingly standard seven year or longer) or the taking of the "King's (Queen's) Shilling" which, after the required pause before swearing in...
  7. WI: Columbus never reached the New World

    Seriously? That you would use this thoroughly debunked BS is bad enough, especially in the context of this thread, but it is also pushing a REALLY dumb conspiracy and more than mildly racist distortion of history. I recommend you take some time, maybe 128 hours, to look up the difference...
  8. Soviet-Japanese Border Conflicts Escalate to War, Does Hitler invade the USSR early?

    Well, in 1939 Poland is sort of in the way. The Wehrmacht was also nowhere near strong enough to even project force that far out in 1939. It took just about everything in the envelope to manage Poland. The Heer had to use freshly mobilized reserves to cover the border with France, and even...
  9. Montanas built

    Reluctant ASB move, although I would be looking a the Ban Hammer case with longing.
  10. Would IJN have done better at Midway with four Illustrious class?

    Thanks. Never realized that even with the radio installed they had no voice comms.
  11. Would IJN have done better at Midway with four Illustrious class?

    Probably not a great of a difference than might be imagined. The one big difference would seem to be the radar, but since most IJN fighters had their radios removed by the pilots (to reduce weight) there is no real help as far as fighter direction. There is also the reality that there were TWO...
  12. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The A4 hasn't tried to destroy Germany's national identity, they HAVE destroyed the German state. Germany will, probably, never be allowed to reform as a single state. The A4 couldn't care less about the German Identity, they can identify to their heart's content. Doesn't matter. A4 simply...
  13. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    They would crush the Wallies like a bug. Ju-688 is a better B-36 (engine fires rarely burn off a wing). There isn't a fighter in the world that can reliably intercept them (no fighter can, literally, get within a mile of them), much less the MACH 1.5 sprint schnell bombers and Luftwaffe jet...
  14. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    I would merely point out that the map is not mine. It is a terrific piece of work, with a few gloriously snarky comments which I wish I had come up with (I loved the line about the Tsarist Republic), but not exactly mine. It was also, to be honest, done when I though I had this whole thing put...
  15. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    With 1954 Reich weapons going along for the ride? Nazis rule the world.
  16. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Yep. The Warm War will cover the ETO/Med/ME starting from the base POD from OTL up to the start of AANW. Research and outlining is in progress.
  17. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    They stayed with the .38. The U.S. supplied a mega-load of S&W Model 10 via Lend Lease to go with the Enfield and Webley Mark VI. Australians and Canadians mainly deserted the Mother country on this and went with the M1911. In reality though, the basic belief came down to "when you're down to...
  18. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Pretty much. The idea is that once the Two Oceans Navy Act passes, FDR puts the spurs to her. I WILL get PWR back up on its feet at some point (no, really, I swear). Depending on the reception of the prequel to AANW that y'all have pushed for, it might be next in the chamber, or I might do the...
  19. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Actually it was Lyon. Paris was the name of someplace that used to be. As you note, there was self determination vote. At the time the French nationalist government was doing its best to piss off everybody. They succeeded.
  20. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Where did I indicate that that is the case? The Reich was dismembered. It didn't even get to retain its place as a nation-state, much less hold any conquests.
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