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  1. WI tallboy/grand sland used against Hitler's Berlin bunker?

    The bigger issue, even beyond the difficulty of targeting a relatively small position that is heavily defended with AAA and what is left of the Luftwaffe and does not dramatically show contrast with the surrounding terrain with an unguided weapon, is that the WAllies didn't WANT to kill Hitler...
  2. Grading Hitler's Military Command Competence

    No worries. Lots of members here hav never read though all the comments. There are 7,500+. :D
  3. Grading Hitler's Military Command Competence

    To a degree, but it also reinforces the difficulties in coming up with a way to make it work. I have never made any secret that the weakest, by far, element of the T/L is the PODs that allows the Reich to win. There are two, one is Hitler showing a degree of sanity in refusing to be drawn into...
  4. Grading Hitler's Military Command Competence

    It helps mainly in the transport element so there is a good chance the aircraft, at least some of them, would be used. The losses in the JU-52 fleet were fairly dramatic during the air lift (266 aircraft, which amounted to 1/3 of the entire inventory), along with 165 He-111 being used in the...
  5. We All Invented The Internet!- An Alternate 2008 Timeline

    No, but you have an Official Warning for Necromancy. Cease and desist.
  6. Grading Hitler's Military Command Competence

    It depends on when and what the terms of the peace in the East would be. If the Soviets were defeated, or at least had a peace agreement that limited their force size and/or deployments (best case for the Reich) the Heer could move a couple million troops in late '42-early '43, while leaving...
  7. Grading Hitler's Military Command Competence

    The Ardennes Counter-Offensive was going to be successful until the overcast broke. The minute the WAllies could get airpower on line it was going to fail. The further the Heer pushed that narrow thust to the West the more men/equipment would be cut off when the Allies responded.If anything the...
  8. Fourth Panzer not diverted to the Don crossing

    Considering how AANW finishes, I would have to say that "best case" is a bit of a reach. To your original question - A lot depends on what Hitler would do once he had the West Bank of the Volga in his control. If he actually followed the original plan and drove into the Caucuses and succeeded...
  9. Grading Hitler's Military Command Competence

    Again, I tend to disagree. There were a couple different decisions made in the summer of 1941 that might (stress on might) have changed the outcome in the East. The first, and possibly best, chance to change the outcome in when Hitler, against the advice of his senior military leadership...
  10. Flag Thread IV

    Well, thanks for stopping by. Promoting insane, thoroughly disproved conspiracy theories is unacceptable here. We divorce you. To Coventry with you.
  11. Grading Hitler's Military Command Competence

    Yes and no. The Reich can still not defeat the "Grand Alliance", but it can delay the Red Army by months, if not a year. Pulling 6th Army out of Stalingrad and withdrawing to the Don once it became clear that the city was not gong to fall in 1942 put the Heer into a much better position to...
  12. what if the native Americans sailed over to Africa

    OP Banned for trolling straight out of the Gate. Locked.
  13. What if Europe tried to conquer every continent

    OP Banned for trolling straight out of the Gate. Locked.
  14. what if germany became the most powerfull country in the world

    OP Banned for trolling straight out of the Gate. Locked.
  15. Grading Hitler's Military Command Competence

    In the East? F (only because there isn't a G). The Reich had almost no chance of defeating the Soviets, even if properly led. There are a few scenarios when you can come up with a scenario, but none of them with Hitler involved as C-in-C. There are a number of scenarios where the Reich could...
  16. What if Japan went to the Americas with some samurias

    Starting to troll straight out of the gate is one of the 11 ways to crash land. We divorce you.
  17. WI: Nationalist China invests more resources into a navy and airforce after 1933

    Two problems: 1. Money. Warships are EXPENSIVE. A single Farragut class DD (1932) ran around $4,000,000 (1932 USD). A Plunger class SS ran $2,800,000 without weapons. Aircraft are much less expensive, but are still very costly in aggregate. Nationalist China was already spending over half of...
  18. Why can't Japan conquer Persia

    Guys... This is why people clam up and stop posting and asking questions. Yes, this is, at best, a rather unlikely scenario. That being said, there are any number of perfectly valid ways to explain why it is impossible without taking shots at the OP.
  19. Lethality of Nazi nerve gas

    Potentially. How many people live in the area that is hit? 20K? 200K? 2M? If you get everyone in London to stand out in the open wearing swimwear you can go higher. If you hit a factory zone on Christmas Morning you might not kill anyone at all.
  20. Lethality of Nazi nerve gas

    Nope. There are too many variables, way too may to come up with that sort of a figure. As noted the Reich lacks a proper delivery system, that alone greatly drops the lethality. The bomb tonnage is also not the amount of agent, it is the weight of the weapon, including the casing, bursting...
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