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  1. The M-BAM Main Thread

    Your last sentece saved you from a kick. NEVER bring current politics, much less alternate science/conspiracy mongering into a non Chat thread again.
  2. Jeb 2016 a Micro Timeline

    DO NOT post current politics (which includes anything that will likely start a current politics debate without straying from the subject) in post-1900.
  3. Map Thread XIV

    Care to explain this?
  4. Dinosaurs not extinct in New World

    You've been a member here for 7 1/2 years. You had to click through a warning that told you this thread had been dead for EIGHT YEARS to post. Then you post a utterly pointless two word troll. Oops. Wrong. Kicked for a week for blatant trolling. EDIT: Member for 2 1/2 years. song remains the...
  5. AHC: Make Hillary win in 2016

    Here is the actual description for this Forum: General discussion about alternate history scenarios where the divergence from real history happens from 1900 AD onward. Post "what if" questions and talk about the results. NOT debates about present-day politics. Do not post current politics...
  6. What if Finland stayed apart of russia

    Huh? Please DO expand.
  7. What if: Japan Invaded Mexico in June of 1942?

    Said pro-Nazi general would be in his grave by the start of 1941. The U.S. would readily provide support of Mexican "insurgents".
  8. WI:Nazi-Soviet SeaLion

    Closed at OP request.
  9. Ayad Allawi Becomes Iraqi PM in 2010

    Closed per OP request.
  10. WI:Nazi-Soviet SeaLion

    Sally Field? Isn't she like 97 and a half?
  11. WI:Nazi-Soviet SeaLion

    Great. So now we have two land powers without useful fleets, zero experience in amphibious operations with leaders who don't dislike each other, but despise each other with the heat of a supernova. You also have the $%#^ Reds attacking England. Now THAT is something that will get Congress off...
  12. Map Thread XIV

    You REALLY don't want to start up with alt-right crap in here.
  13. What if: Japan Invaded Mexico in June of 1942?

    Patton would follow the order of Kruger and Marshall, both of whom can read a map and realize how little water the Japanese have.
  14. What if Sanders and Paul Had Won Their Respective Nominations?

    Is the phrase: "NOT debates about present-day politics" that difficult to parse?
  15. Automatic rifle used as infantry rifle ?

    I don't know how much of it is a canard as a failure of imagination regarding advances in logistics. Troops throw ammo downrange like its free, call it grazing fire, enfilading fire, suppressive fire, or plain old rock & roll, troops will burn through ammo like there is no tomorrow. The only...
  16. What if: Japan Invaded Mexico in June of 1942?

    No, we wouldn't. The Kido Butai couldn't operate that far out. It could barely manage Pearl. The IJN lacked the logistical support necessary to operate that far from base. As was, most of the escorts, especially destroyers, had to deck load drums of fuel just to manage to make the trip to Oahu...
  17. Automatic rifle used as infantry rifle ?

    The 13.5 pound version WAS simplified. Most of the bits that made it usable under field conditions (dust covers, flash suppressor, full forestock, etc.) were removed.
  18. Automatic rifle used as infantry rifle ?

    Let me rephrase the first comment. Too powerful to fire accurately offhand in full auto.
  19. Automatic rifle used as infantry rifle ?

    BAR (unloaded) was, in the lightest version (the one issued to Prisons and LEO in the 1930s), 13.4 pounds. Military versions came in at 19 pounds. M1 Garand (unloaded) was 9.7 pounds (with sniper versions up to 11.7#) Four pounds is three grenades or two full canteens or a M3 gas mask, etc...
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