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  1. WI: Baku falls in a highly implausible scenario in WW2.

    I'm only bringing this up because I weekly play a wargame called World in Flames, and I never even consciously considered the following until the guy playing Germany, pulled off a coup not 2 hours ago. We're at the start of July, 1941, and Germany is ripping and tearing in all directions at the...
  2. WI: The British sieze the Azores in the spring of 1940

    I'm sure everyone here appreciates the significance of the hole in air cover over the central atlantic had in the Battle of the Atlantic, and that the British were very interested in basing airplanes on the Portuguese held Azores Islands. They were able to secure them diplomatically, but by the...
  3. WW1 Breakout into the north sea?

    Been doing a bit of reading on the naval aspect of WW1, and I was a little surprised to discover the British blockade of the German coast wasn't as complete as I had thought. Occasional raiders did slip through, and you had things like the shelling of Yarmouth and Scarsborough. So clearly, the...
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