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  1. WI: Yu-Go sakusen successful

    It even goes beyond that. I asked pretty much the same question, albeit in somewhat less confrontational manner, when I first joined. Even then there were subjects, like Sealion, that had been pretty much demonstrated as impossible (Ian actually wrote a rather nice essay on the impossibility...
  2. The Worst Alternate History Never Written

    Last post was in 2007. 2007 Enough with the necro'.
  3. Probability Check: Limited Axis Victory

    The almost certain result of that level of collapse would be a Communist takeover. COMINTERN was always ready to support groups, especially in Germany. If Stalin gets control of Germany, the excrement would be in the turbine to the Nth degree. As you note the flaw is that it requires...
  4. Probability Check: Limited Axis Victory

    At one point around October 1941, everyone not named Stalin was sure that the Reich was going to defeat the USSR. The thing was, Stalin was right. He may not have been right for the correct reasons, but he was correct in his belief. Pretty much any sort of Reich defeats the USSR scenario...
  5. Probability Check: Limited Axis Victory

    I never claimed it was a good POD, just that it was a better than Zero Chance one. Stalin also didn't react to a rumor. The reality of the loss was firmly established in truth. Same goes for the staying out of North Africa, very unlikely for the Reich, but not entirely impossible. There...
  6. Probability Check: Limited Axis Victory

    In that case there IS no Axis. There is just the Reich and the late arriving Italy. The U.S. didn't attack Germany, the Reich declared war. Some assume that it was solely because Hitler wanted to back Japan, it wasn't. The minute the U.S. and UK engage a common enemy the United States has...
  7. Probability Check: Limited Axis Victory

    Hmmm... As noted I did Nazi limited victory. The reason for the T/L initially required it, and I cobbled together a low probability, but greater than Zero chance, scenario. Taking the UK, without an entire series of major POD, both in the Reich and in Britain, is simply impossible. Once...
  8. WI: President Donald Trump

    Not only a massive necro, but one that turned post 1900 into current politics. SO locked.
  9. WI: Helicopters before Aircraft

    It may just be me (and the folks who report this), but that seems to be an insult. Please don't insult other members.
  10. Q: Operation Barbarossa in 1942

    Actually Hitler will still be faced with the same choice as IOTL. He can declare on the U.S. or he can abandon the Battle of the Atlantic. As soon as Congress declares war on Japan, FDR has the right, actually the obligation, to provide protection to all U.S. flagged ships (and since the UK...
  11. WI: Germany to Be Nuked First, What Are the Targets?

    The official reason for targeting the City was a Soviet request to provide support Red Army operations. There were a number of legitimate targets in the city, numerous factories and smaller manufacturing site that produced materials for the Wehrmacht. There is also considerable anecdotal...
  12. WI: Germany to Be Nuked First, What Are the Targets?

    It is very likely that Dresden would become a target, for much the same reason it was subjected to degree of over-bombing IOTL. It would provide the Soviets an object lesson on WAllied air power.
  13. WI: Atomic Bomb Ready in June 1944

    The tactical use would have followed three city strikes. The not illogical belief was that if three strikes wasn't sufficient to shock the Japanese into surrender, the Bomb wasn't going to ever manage that task and more direct efforts would be necessary (although by August 1945 about the only...
  14. WI: FDR Lives To See the Atomic Bomb

    Drop it on Japan at first opportunity.
  15. WI: Americans Use the Atomic Bomb Differently?

    THREE threads on effectively the same subject? Don't do that.
  16. WI: Atomic Bomb Ready in June 1944

    There were plans to use several weapons in tactical roles during the invasion of the Home Islands. As was mentioned the effects of fall out were not well understood, and the plan was to use the weapons in the same way that napalm, or, in today's environment, a thermobaric weapon would be...
  17. WI: Atomic Bomb Ready in June 1944

    Except they couldn't start to modify the aircraft until Little Boy's basic size was determined, which itself wasn't known until the physics package and gun assembly were completed. They then had to test the casing design based on the final balance of the gun design (which BTW, they got wrong...
  18. WI: Yu-Go sakusen successful

    Actually the Japanese were nowhere near as audacious or aggressive as is sometimes stated. They were masters of the hyper aggressive plan, but far from masters of completing it. Two really easy examples are Savo Island, and Samar. In both cases the IJN commander had a strong degree of success...
  19. WI: Atomic Bomb Ready in June 1944

    The early bombs were both monsters and far less impressive than time has magnified. They were extremely heavy, even the B-29 needed to be specially lightened to manage one inside the performance envelope necessary for the crew to survive (the "Silverplate" variant, the first production...
  20. how would the Third Reich have carved up Eurasia?

    It isn't ASB. It is poorly thought out to the point of impossible and lacks a reasonable POD, making it extremely difficult to discuss, but it is not ASB. ASB implies magic, evolutionary/geological POD, or other fantasy elements. This has none of those. While an unconditional U.S...
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