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  1. WI: Hood sisters built as 8x18 inch naval guns

    Guess I described it poorly. The goal of the WNT was to stop a costly arms race. Central to that was that all the players would have effectively identical ships with near identical capabilities (there were certain differences, the Japanese were more married to speed than the RN, while USN ships...
  2. WI: Hood sisters built as 8x18 inch naval guns

    Which why the existence of these ships would sink the WNT. The entire point was to prevent one country from getting this sort of massive advantage. The difference between an 18" and a 16" gun is remarkable. The AP shell from the 18"/45 Mark II proposed for the later RN heavies weighed 3,300...
  3. WWIII in a Nazi-US Cold War?

    The difficulty here is that there are too many possible scenarios. How is it arrive at a Cold War? Did the U.S. fight the Reich as IOTL, if so, when? Is the UK still independent, if so what is its status/relationship with the U.S.? What is the status of the USSR/is there still a USSR? Is Hitler...
  4. AHC: Normalize cannibalism

    Please do not drag current political positions into pre-1900. Chat exists for a reason.
  5. Question about Cavalry vs Napoleonic square

    Probably not. Heavy armored cavalry was hell on wheels going in a more or less straight line. There mounts, particularly destriers, were bred for strength and straight line sprinting speed and trained for that sort of activity since foalhood. 19th Century cavalry was generally much better...
  6. EISENHOWER!!!!

    Not possible. Not with only a few weeks of delay. All that means is that 3rd Army crosses the Rhine in early April. There is no way the Red Army can realign in that time. Stalin had put everything into taking Berlin, not believing that Churchill and FDR (not to mention Ike) literally didn't...
  7. WI: Czechoslovakia fights the invasion in 1968?

    The Czechs get rolled while the West can do nothing but watch and wail.
  8. Where was most of the US industrial capacity during World War 2?

    That was the set-up prior to the war. Kaiser shipyards (established in 1939, especially to produce tonnage for the U.S. Maritime Commission) located on the West Coast produced 787 ships, including the entire Casablanca class CVE (50 ships). The Todd Pacific Yard across the Sound built 19...
  9. DBWI: Qing China fell?

    I'm going to go all in on benefit of the doubt here and assume this is a really bad attempt at humor. It isn't funny to use racial slurs.
  10. No 1965 Immigration Act

    A MORE EQUAL society? When roughly 10% of the population are in conditions that openly treat them as second class citizens? Less spending on juvenile detention centers? Presumably because all those excess brown people are not committing crimes. Less welfare because, well, you know how they...
  11. Luftwaffe Zeros?

    Actually the most useful aircraft the Japanese produced for the ETO was the H8K. Ungodly range (4,400 miles, although a a very leisurely pace), 4,000 pound bomb load, good defensive firepower, and, unusually for the Japanese, fairly rugged. It would have been a massive improvement over the...
  12. How would the Japanese have resisted a American/Soviet invasion?

    Food and ammo would become an issue, but not until the defenders had mainly been wiped out in any case. Units were being deployed with two units of fire, although some were coming up short there is a reasonable chance that this would have been made up by the time Olympic actually took place...
  13. How would the Japanese have resisted a American/Soviet invasion?

    Longer than some may believe. Stalin wanted, primarily, Manchuria, with Hokkaido very much a secondary consideration. The Japanese were ready to go at Olympic hammer and tongs. Figure four, maybe five months to secure the southern third of Kyushu. By then the Red Army would have reached Pusan...
  14. WI: Trump Never Ran

    Here is the easiest way to gauge it. Will the thread possibly/probably start an argument about current politics? If so, then it belongs in Chat.
  15. Agree or disagree with this piece: Five ways Japan could have won World War II

    The FAA, much like the USN, was caught between generations in the early years of the Pacific War (something that rapidly became the lot of the IJN by the end of 1942). The FAA tended to use USN designs for the most basic of reasons, the British aircraft industry was concentrating on the ETO...
  16. Future of Finland in a WW2 where Leningrad and Murmansk fall

    A lot depends on exactly what this degree of Reich victory means. The only way the forces are dedicated to move against Murmansk is if the Reich has already achieved its strategic goals to the South, namely Baku and Stalingrad, and is in a very powerful position in the Army Group Center. In...
  17. 八紘一宇 - Hakkō Ichiu

    IOTL the ship was stripped to provide shore batteries and then scuttled. That is the most likely fate in any reasonable T/L. Scuttling a ship is no difficult, especially when you have plenty of time to plan for the eventuality.
  18. US Marine base in the Rep of Ireland

    For the Marines, there isn't much of one. For the U.S. military it provides additional basing opportunities and strategic depth. A ASW patrol aircraft flying out of the West Coast of Eire (say Galway) picks up around two extra hours on station. That is nothing to be dismissed out of hand.
  19. 八紘一宇 - Hakkō Ichiu

    How does an aircraft carrying 16 pound (7.3 kg) bombs sink a protected cruiser? For that matter how does a 16 pound bomb sink a 214' long, 1,000 ton gunboat>
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