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  1. WI: No Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia?

    You know better than this. Kicked for a week.
  2. Communist Burma: consequences for its minorities?

    This is sort of the textbook example of why you DO NOT necro. The post that dug this out of the grave was in response to four year old thread and to a since Banned member.
  3. WI the VC had struck in the USA?

    China would have stood by and giggled. The utter contempt between Hanoi and Beijing was, and is, difficult to overstate. The only reason the PRC allowed supply trains to cross their territory is that the Soviets had to pay what amounted to a huge toll in equipment and materials for every load...
  4. Best modern infantry rifle?

    Handguns don't really matter unless you are clearing a tunnel, but .45 is the way to go, 10mm as an alternate. You want to knock the target down. 9mm is great for commonality, and you can get a higher capacity mag in the same size pistol grip, but... Rifles are a different matter. The 5.56...
  5. AHC/WI: Japan takes Ceylon

    Beyond the fact that they can't possibly do it? Just as the attack on Pearl Harbor was a RAID, the incursion into the IO was a RAID. There is a world of difference between conducting a raid and mounting an invasion and even more of a difference between mounting an invasion and...
  6. Do you think the USSR didn't fulfill it's purpose?

    And. as a result, replaced the Dictatorship of the Tsar with the Dictatorship of the Party.
  7. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Why has the DPRK been tickling the dragon's tail for six decades? Expecting logic from government leaders all the time is pretty much a fool's errand. They are comprised of human beings, and human being are rarely logical.
  8. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    For the most part the fortress troops fought hard because their families were hostage to their behavior and they knew it. That being said, the national forces fought because they were defending their own homes and in the case of a more than a few troops, had bought into the fascist...
  9. Do you think the USSR didn't fulfill it's purpose?

    The USSR failed. Completely. Utterly. Categorically. All it achieved was replacing one dictatorship with another that was, remarkably, even worse for those living under its control than the the Tsar.
  10. US vs Japan all by themselves

    Hmmm... No oil coming in. No metals coming in. 3% of global industrial potential vs 42% of global industrial potential. Ya, that'll work out well.
  11. WI Vought XF5U "Flying Pancake" In WWII?

    At least they put a tail on this one. :D As far as a difference in the war? None. None at all.
  12. WI the VC had struck in the USA?

    With Nixon in office? Instant Sunshine. With Johnson? Three division landing, probably near Cua Lo, reinforced by air and with enough weight to crush the NVA, take Hanoi and Hai Phong. There was never any question that the U.S. could destroy the NVA and overrun the whole country. The thing...
  13. Map Thread XIV

    Folks, you are letting politics get too strong in here. Keep political debates to Chat.
  14. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Need lots of Gentleman Farmers in General Government.
  15. Crisis in the Kremlin: An Extended Cold War TL

    Leave the Poland Ball to Chat.
  16. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The WAllies win out in the end. That makes it a WAllied Wank in some people's eyes. It also makes the Reich out to be exactly what it was IRL, an evil regime run by sociopaths who committed crimes that would have seen as over the top by Caligula and Genghis Khan. That sets some folks off their...
  17. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Easy there. Negative feedback is still feedback, and I asked for feedback.
  18. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    All of these were covered, in considerable length earlier in the thread, but as a brief response... 53% of the American electorate saw Japan as the chief enemy. That does not, in any way, translate to the population not seeing the Reich as a mortal opponent as well. What is does show is that...
  19. Best Possible Japanese Carrier-Based Aircraft?

    As has been noted, the IJN had several exceptional designs, including the A7M, D4Y, and the B7A. Design was not the issue. Manufacturing capacity and metallurgy was the problem, made worse by the loss of expert mechanics. It reached the point that the Japanese couldn't even keep planes in the...
  20. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    No. They could hang in for a while, but they are nowhere near self-sustaining, not in the long term. Same goes for the orbital platforms, although the Orbitals do have "lifeboats" using them to return to an active plague would be committing suicide to avoid being killed by a crash.
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