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  1. Western Allies defeat Nazis before Hollocaust, what to do with Germany

    How did they win the war before it started?
  2. Kimmel and Short: 100% innocent victms?

    100% innocent? No. Scapegoats? Pretty much. Pearl was, and to a degree is, an exposed post. That means that the greatest possible caution should have been exercised against all possible enemy actions, including a carrier strike since both men were well aware of the successes by...
  3. Midway: Without the 5 lucky minutes

    I was extremely careful to separate the discussion from the (un)official (since it was not recorded in the action system) warning. Hopefully you are, in fact, now aware of the limits and will keep them in mind in future discussions.
  4. Instead of portraying Jews as subhumans, the Nazis portray them as a dangerous foe...

    Uh... No. You are dead wrong. Pretty much every one of your posts is also either in support of the Nazi's, apologism for their policies, or some other odd version of 2nd/3rd Reich Nationalism. Banned. We divorce you. To Coventry with you.
  5. Midway: Without the 5 lucky minutes

    Consider yourself thrice blessed that I am participating in this thread, and I try mightily to avoid Moderating in threads where I am active as a poster. Were it otherwise, this comment would have earned you an action. It was a smart alec remark that added nothing to the conversation and came...
  6. Midway: Without the 5 lucky minutes

    The 7,000 figure was mine. I failed to properly review my sources prior to posting it. The actual total figure was 4,500 troops. This reduced the 7:5 ratio of defender:attacker to roughly 1:1. I apologize for the error. Forces on Midway included: 1,000 Army personnel (some defensive...
  7. Nuke the nazis.

    This assumes the missions are all on the same day. After the first strike the Luftwaffe is going to go all-in every time a B-29 crosses the Channel. The Luftwaffe wasn't the IJA/IJN, they would have tossed everything that could fly at every aircraft (the Japanese were saving fuel for the...
  8. Nuke the nazis.

    Civilians will panic NOW. In 1944 no one without an advanced degree would even understand what you were talking about. We tend to think in modern terms, where nuclear weapons are the spectre of Death Himself. That wasn't what the Manhattan Project produced. It started the ball rolling, but...
  9. WI German navy destroys British navy in Jutland.

    You were kicked THREE WEEKS AGO for exactly this same sort of snide passive/aggressive crap in this same thread. Clearly you need some additional time to work on your Bridge's abutments. This is strike two. Kicked for a week.
  10. Nuke the nazis.

    Speer said a lot of things. nother three days of this raid or that raid and we would never have recovered. He was a master of playing the audience, whether it was a room of Nazis or the USSBS investigators. Find 12 useful targets inside the Reich that had not been hit over and over again by...
  11. Most plausible way to prevent WWI?

    Or... Prussia manages to lose in 1870 and Germany never unifies.
  12. Midway: Without the 5 lucky minutes

    Wake. The defenders surrendered only after the Japanese had effectively taken the islet. The Marines on Midway were mainly pre-war enlistees, including the 6th defense battalion. There men were dead solid professionals, fighting from prepared positions. American troops fought extremely...
  13. Best WWII Fighter in single combat .

    The Spitfire was probably the best air-frame of the war, huge amount of space to expand/improve. It never was really able to shake off the range issue. That hurt both loiter time and mission radius.
  14. Best WWII Fighter in single combat .

    You chose, of ALL the single seat U.S. fighters, a 12,000 pound bar brawler? When I look at that list the first thing that comes to mind is: Which one of these is not like the others? Yikes.
  15. Midway: Without the 5 lucky minutes

    As I noted, its Tarawa, but with better fortifications, more heavy machine guns, light tanks, PT boats inside the lagoon, command detonated mines, and a 7:5 defender:attacker ratio. The U.S. his Tarawa with 35,000 troops, equipped with Amtracs, forward air controllers coordinating strikes...
  16. WWII Best location for an Allied invasion of Norway

    Northwest France. Best decision the Allied made in the entire war, except maybe staying the hell out of the Balkans, was to leave Norway as was. Sucked for the Norwegians, but not having to face 300,000 additional Heer troops with full TOE, was a huge win. Norway was a strategic sideshow...
  17. Midway: Without the 5 lucky minutes

    So, all that is required is that the IJN utterly changes it long standing tactical methodology, gets every break possible, and outperforms its best effort, ever. Seems reasonable. No, Midway would not have been evacuated. It would have awaited what would have been a Keystone Kops...
  18. WI 1942 armastice

    No France, and presumably, the Low Countries? Germany either goes broke, starves, or both, by the end of 1943. Only way the Allies go for this is if it is before the Unconditional Surrender statement, and then it is going to have to be, at the least, Status Quo Antebellum 1/1/1940...
  19. All WoW servers explode

    I'd close the thread and tell you not to waste bandwidth.
  20. Bloodiest Battle Ever .

    Constantinople was too small to even get a blip. Siege would be Leningrad in a walk, followed by Stalingrad and Berlin, although the Mongol siege of Baghdad deserve a mention. Battle would be the Tumu Crisis. Two days, 200,000 KIA. August 31-September 1, 1449. Killed more people than BOTH...
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