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  1. different admiral class bc

    Not at all, but the CLAA should have been treated like what it was, and AAA asset, and not a cruiser. If anything it would have been far better to have kept the CLAA with the carriers, even if you had to detach a cruiser from a TF to send into a surface combat operation such as existed in the...
  2. different admiral class bc

    Actually Hood shows a surprising, perhaps even shocking, lack of improvement to the overall armor scheme, especially considering all the RN losses at Justland were not the result of belt penetration HMS Lion Belt: 4-9" Barbette: 8-9" Bulkheads: 4-5" Deck: 2.5" Turrets: 9" Conning Tower: 10"...
  3. different admiral class bc

    Interesting on the ship's namesake. Given the proximity in time I had, apparently in error, made a leap in logic. Regarding the protection issue: The battle cruiser concept was, literally, blown out of the water at Jutland. There was still time to conduct a redesign that would have addressed...
  4. WI: Princess Diana gets pregnant with JFK JR's baby

    Rather than take other action on what is a rather silly conspiracy theory ripped from the worst of the tabloids, thread is simply locked. Do NOT repeat.
  5. Do you believe creating Israel was a mistake?

    About as political a subject as can exist here. Unfortunately a poll is attached so it can not be moved to Chat. Locked.
  6. WI: The Incas win

    Play the ball folks.
  7. different admiral class bc

    It would actually make sense in a lot of ways for a conversion to have an armored deck. The mindset at the time was that carriers were part of the scouting force, just like cruisers, except they had the ability to send scouting aircraft beyond the horizon (the Lex and Sara kept their 4x2 8" guns...
  8. different admiral class bc

    Likely fewer than the US Lexington class, assuming the RN goes with the British standard armored flight deck. At a guess 45-50, Saratoga was embarking 90 in 1943. HMS Furious was roughly the same displacement and overall dimensions as the American Yorktown class (she was 35' shorter in the...
  9. AHC: British Monarch usurps democracy

    Really? Be constructive. Play the ball
  10. AHC/WI: Japan takes Ceylon

    You are assuming the Saratoga's torpedoing isn't butterflied away by the Pearl debacle. That would give an additional deck. In April/May of 1942 Ryuho is still in the yard (in fact Doolittle's Raiders actually managed to nick her up). She won't be available, assuming no damage with the Raid...
  11. AHC/WI: Japan takes Ceylon

    Maybe, but unlikely. Wake had been THE major story for two weeks after Pearl Harbor, mainly because it was the one place that the defenders at least gave the Japanese a serious bloody nose. Retaking the island would have been seen as a major victory and vengeance for eventual loss of the island...
  12. AHC/WI: Japan takes Ceylon

    The difficulty is that the IJA/IJN drastically underestimated just how much force the U.S could bring to bear in Amphibious operations. They assumed, incorrectly but not unreasonably, that U.S capabilities would greatly exceed their own. The final IJN commander at Tarawa, Admiral Shibazaki...
  13. AHC/WI: Japan takes Ceylon

    True, but as you have most abundantly (and again, thanks for that information) pointed out, logistically the Kido Butai can't STAY there. In particular their destroyers can't stay there. Worse, if Nagumo is solidly reported in the IO for any period (assuming he can get sufficient fuel to...
  14. AHC: Second American Civil War in 20th Century

    Please DO NOT necro dead threads. It is contrary to Board policy
  15. Better Yamato?

    Better in what way? The Yamato was designed for a very questionable strategic goal, one that was disappearing even as she was commissioned. Unlike her USN counterparts, Yamato was poorly armed to act as a close AAA escort, arguably she was hard pressed to defend herself less due to the lack of...
  16. Prevent the rise of the Khmer Rogue regime

    Have the U.S. decide to cut the Democratic Republic of Vietnam off at the shoetops. Follow that by the U.S. installing a puppet in Cambodia. Problem solved. All that's left is the fiddly bits, like completely alter U.S. policy.
  17. AHC/WI: Japan takes Ceylon

    As I sort of made clear in AANW, it is startling unlikely that if the Soviets were knocked out of the war that the WAllies would even try to retake the Continent. The math just doesn't work out, at least not until the Japanese are totally defeated and Indian, and possibly even Nationalist...
  18. HMS Vanguard explodes at Kiel June 26, 1914

    Magazine explosions are, as noted, far from unknown. You would need the atmosphere to already be superheated (as was the case with Spain and the U.S. when the Maine was lost) to get cause belli out of one
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