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  1. Pacific Ordeal

    I do appreciate your feedback. I happen, ironically enough, to agree with you. I think the Plotters were living a pie-in-the-sky reality IOTL and that the Allies were going to have to fight for every yard. That however, isn't much of an alternate view. Much like the POD in AANW, this is very...
  2. Pacific Ordeal

    No. It has already been noted earlier that it took place per schedule. Changes are still to come. ...clue cliffhanger music....
  3. Britain w Nazi Europe

    You are correct, to a point. That is why I discussed a useful war fighting stockpile. To put 200 weapons on target, especially if the enemy is working with the knowledge that every enemy aircraft is carrying a nuclear weapon, will require a stockpile of well over 200 weapons, likely closer to...
  4. Pacific Ordeal

    I appreciate your feedback. However, I still believe that it is a low order of possible POD, especially considering how receptive the Nazis had made the German people to propaganda from the Government and accepting what ever BS is given as truth.
  5. Pacific Ordeal

    An update focused on Germany. Please feel free to comment. 4. The initial occupation of the former 3rd Reich went more smoothly than the Allies had had envisioned. The Junta had conducted a remarkably effective propaganda campaign almost from the day of Hitler’s assassination...
  6. Pacific Ordeal

    At this point neither the Americans or British have even a general handle on what the hell is happening. The chaos was utterly unexpected (probably should have been seen as a possibility, but wasn't).
  7. Britain w Nazi Europe

    It is actually fairly difficult to be WORSE off economically than the British were IOTL unless you suffer an utter defeat and occupation. The British didn't end rationing until 1954. It is not entirely unreasonable to argue that the British NEVER recovered fully from the War, at least at the...
  8. Reasonable ATL - best RCN counter for SMS Leipzig?

    Going a bit out of the box, how about an American built Armored Cruiser of the Tennessee class? 22 knots, 2x2 10" (254mm) main battery, 16x1 6" (152mm) secondary battery 22x1 3" (76mm) quickfire guns and 4 21" torpedo tubes or a ship of the earlier Pennsylvania class which was less well...
  9. Britain w Nazi Europe

    Agree on something? :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: Are you new here?:confused::confused: I don't see the British economy being vastly worse than IOTL 1950s (not that it was especially robust then). An actual peace (as low probability as it may be) would include some sort of trade. The West...
  10. Britain w Nazi Europe

    The real issue here is that Hitler wouldn't stand for it. The bastard never honored an agreement in his life, and this would be no different. It is clear that his physical condition was, in large part, the result of the stresses of losing the war. Without that stress he is very likely to live...
  11. Rule Britannia!

    TWO YEAR for a snide comment? Don't do that!
  12. What does a surviving Khmer Rouge look like?

    The KM were savages in the truest sense of the word. Utterly uncivilized (and proud of it, it must be added). The killed people because they wore glasses equating that action with being intellectuals (education was a bad thing). The goal was to move everyone from the cities and make the entire...
  13. Large US Defense/R&D Budget 1920s

    There has to be some sort of enemy on the horizon. The American taxpayer has demonstrated, almost from the moment the country was established, that there is no limit to what he will accept if there is an enemy he believes exists. The contrary is also true. Find a way to make the Japanese...
  14. Pacific Ordeal

    The issue with the French is that they pretty much want to annex most of industrial Germany in all but name and then get the Anglo-Americans to promise to come to their aid regardless, at any time in the future. The problem is made ever so much worse by the clash of personalities among the three...
  15. WI WWII in 1948 ?

    Short version is that it can't be done. Germany's economy can't handle it. If, however, it was to somehow happen it would face(USN Only): 27+ CV 17+ fast BB 6 CB 40+ CA 60+ CL 400+ DD 300+ submarines Once again, that is JUST the USN. I suspect the RN would bring a fairly potent set of...
  16. What does a surviving Khmer Rouge look like?

    If they were still in power today they would HAVE to mellowed out. Wouldn't be anyone left in Cambodia otherwise. The ones who came in from the cold in the late 80s were already the ones who could, and did, adapt to a version of reality. The rest had consumed themselves. But as far as a...
  17. Pacific Ordeal

    Will be discussed going forward.
  18. Pacific Ordeal

    Here is the next update. Comments and critiques always welcome. 3. The number one priority for commanders in all of the Pacific theaters was for long range aircraft. The distances involved, be it from Guadalcanal to Rabaul or Bougainville or from Imphal into Burma or “over the hump”...
  19. AHC: Caliph as an elected title, not hereditary

    And that will be just about enough snark. Cease and desist.
  20. Would a powerful enough country have been able to prevent decolonisation?

    Really? Cattle-rapping (sp). If you are going to lay out racially based insults at least spell them correctly. Take a week and find your spell checker. Kicked for a week.
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