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  1. Aruba refinery successfully attacked in 1942?

    Refineries are considerably more resilient that sometimes imagined. They are designed to contain fires caused by damaged tanks or piping (this frequently comes up when the "Pearl Harbor third wave myth" is mentioned). The "Bombardment of Elmwood" by I-17 on February 23, 1942 is rather...
  2. Invading Nazi-controlled Europe with Britain under Nazi rule

    Only part of the whole thing that bothers me even a little is that the tread was posted by a member here. BTW: Nazi-wanks are not automatically Banning offenses, provided they do not extend to the justification or defense of the Holocaust or other War Crimes. There are a number of such threads...
  3. Would a victorious Nazi Germany go ahead with Generalplan Ost?

    The problem with this argument, which has been popular in revisionist histories, is that there is absolutely no indication that the Reich's population actually cared. Humanity is, at best, a thin veneer of civilization on the general human population. What usually happens is that the mass of...
  4. Invading Nazi-controlled Europe with Britain under Nazi rule

    Where, pray tell, was this posted? I sort of find the idea that I would engage in Luft46 happy talk deeply hilarious. EDIT: Never mind, I found it.
  5. WI: Hitler Invaded Spain/Portugal Instead of the USSR?

    Wut? I'd move this to ASB but it is so Frivolous that I'd have to lock it there anyway. Let's just pretend this never happened.
  6. How much damage would Seoul suffer in a war with North Korea?

    Ah... My first magnum opus here, when the Board was a much cozier place. :D The figure was a combination of both factors. at the time 8.5 million people lived in Seoul (inside the border of the "Special City" boundaries), with 28 million more in the surrounding region all within range of FroG-7...
  7. How much damage would Seoul suffer in a war with North Korea?

    It depends, in large part, on how you are defining "destroyed". It is quite difficult to recreate 1951 Seoul (or 1943 Stalingrad). It is not so difficult to render the entire region uninhabitable. We have already discussed CW and actual nuclear weapons. There are, however, two other, very cost...
  8. WI Bessie Coleman doesn't die in 1926?

    Well, that sure improved the discussion. Don't derail.
  9. Invading Nazi-controlled Europe with Britain under Nazi rule

    The sentiment to aid the UK did indeed increase during 1941. In this scenario that no long matters. The UK is GONE. The only way the U.S gets into a war with the Reich now is if it flat out starts it on its own. Torch worked IOTL because the British controlled a number of critical locations...
  10. How much damage would Seoul suffer in a war with North Korea?

    For the KPA to run out of beans, bullets and gas, to use the term of art. In under a month ROK and USFK air power and artillery will have destroyed the North's logistical train, destroyed or entombed inside their bunkers virtually all of the KPA's tube artillery (not that it will really make...
  11. How much damage would Seoul suffer in a war with North Korea?

    Max? No one can say for sure, open source doesn't give enough facts (unlike say the U.S. and Russian ICBM nuclear stockpiles, both of which are literally known to the launcher), but some reasonable speculation would include (this is based on the North having five launchable nuclear weapons...
  12. How much damage would Seoul suffer in a war with North Korea?

    Actually the DPRK is in considerably better shape than 10 years ago. I would still agree with you regarding the capabilities of the North except for the fact that they have, despite their weak economy and near famine conditions, successfully developed ICBM, SLBM and nuclear weapons. There is no...
  13. Invading Nazi-controlled Europe with Britain under Nazi rule

    No. The presence of the UK allows the same sort of campaign as occurred IOTL, albeit against a much stronger Reich. Even if one accepts that the Heer would need to conduct on going counter-insurgency operations, needs to increase garrison troops, and will have to release a number of the older...
  14. How much damage would Seoul suffer in a war with North Korea?

    Over what period? In 72 hours (after that I would expect most of the tube artillery to have been neutralized) I would expect Seoul and the region between the city and the DMZ to take 8-10,000 rounds of artillery and MLRS. The amount of damage from tube artillery will drop off fast as the days...
  15. No Reagan: A collobrative timelime

    See this: (well you can't see it actually) It is, however, my "don't much care" face. The member in question posts derails and trolling posts more than anything else.
  16. No Reagan: A collobrative timelime

    Too bad you didn't take the warning about trolling to heart. Maybe this is get through. Kicked for a week
  17. Europa Universalis IV - 13 August 2013

    Solicitation of assistance in the commission of crime NOT allowed here. That includes software piracy. This is a One Strike offense. You have just had yours. DO NOT repeat. Kicked for a week.
  18. How much damage would Seoul suffer in a war with North Korea?

    If they hit Seoul with 1,000 170mm shell in the first five minutes, and 500 are duds, that means that 500 120 pound HE (or, more likely, a mix of HE, VX and Mustard) rounds have hit the city (this assumes 1/2 of the M-1978 and M-1989 are used and each gun fires its initial round and one reload...
  19. Invading Nazi-controlled Europe with Britain under Nazi rule

    Because it was against Japan, which had about 3.5% of the total global industrial potential in 1940, compared to the U.S. at 41.7%. Even taking into consideration the damage done to the occupied European countries, the Reich controls, ATL, around 36% of the glbal 1940 industrial production...
  20. Invading Nazi-controlled Europe with Britain under Nazi rule

    The Strait of Hormuz is a critical shipping channel today solely because around half the world's oil is exported through it. In 1941 the world's, hand's down, largest oil exporter was the United States. The U.S. only engaged the Reich when it did IOTL because Hitler was stupid enough to declare...
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