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  1. Duel of the Imbeciles: Alaska vs. Tirpitz

    Best thread title of 2015! :D The Alaska 12"/50 was an exceptional gun (unfortunately it was placed on the Alaska class). It actually had better armor penetration that the 14" gun on the British KGV class BB, a gun that was demonstrated as being effective against the Bismarck class. The...
  2. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    There is plenty of potential trouble on the long term horizon. China is simply the most dramatic. A global depression that puts India's economy onto the skids for years could renew pressure for partition. It is a lot easier to think about breaking away if no one has work, if the banks are...
  3. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Yes. The actual 3rd Reich. Until the introduction of biological weapons (which, given the mindset of the Reich otherwise, wasn't much of a leap) everything I wrote about Nazi Germany was either part of a documented Plan or was know to be something that Hitler had publicly stated, at least to his...
  4. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Pretty close. Canada is sort of like the neighbor who has a really mean dog, but keeps in inside, owns a pick-up with a NRA sticker on the bumper, but is also the first guy on the block to show up if you need a battery jump on a snowy morning and who can always be counted on to buy whatever crap...
  5. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The only A4 ground based nukes are gravity bombs and on short range "cruise missiles".
  6. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Served in total at some point throughout the War 1939-60, in all theaters? Around 34 million, including support roles and garrison troops of the Indian Army that never deployed outside of the Raj. American numbers, as a comparison, are 29 million but this includes 8M naval personnel and a...
  7. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The tech is behind OTL, not by a lot, but behind. It is doubtful that a practical application like this would be available before ATL 2201 CE. Just the potential for unintended consequences would require that the tech be mature before it was used on this sort of scale.
  8. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Russia is... odd. The official name sort of tells you what you are in for: "The Tsarist Republic". They are less brutalized than the Poles, but only by comparison to them. To any OTL country they are a mess. They survived the first decade after the war mainly on Her Majesty's insistence and...
  9. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    1. Heer troops would have been vastly more capable, assuming they were led by professional officers and not Party hacks who rose to command by being even more true to the Party doctrine than the next psychopath. They would have presented an entirely different set of tactical problems, starting...
  10. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Not really 20 years out of date. The fighters are very solid, just not stealth, so you have a mismatch against the F-22, otherwise they are as good as anything you will find IOTL. Stealth wasn't the big deal ATL, they chose to go with sub-orbital systems instead. The SB-1 & 2 are faster than any...
  11. What were the major mistakes that the US govt/military made in Vietnam?

    Yep. Second one was entering a completely optional war when Washington didn't have a clue about what the actual goal was and what "victory" would look like. So we violated out basic principals regarding colonial reoccupation (something that drove Ho straight into COMINTERN's waiting...
  12. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Unsurprisingly the ground elements have the lowest amount of advance. A version of the assault rifle has come into general use after the previous generation battle rifles (more or less M-14 in the case of the U.S. & Australians) were found to be somewhat wanting during the Korean Intervention...
  13. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Probably the same reason I don't love them. They are too sure of themselves, too positive that they are right and have too much power for their own good. The A4 is the result of having to fight the Devil in CQB for far too long. The "WAllies" won, but they were scarred as a result. For all...
  14. What if Ford kept Edsel and Mercury

    I guess closing the one thread wasn't enough. Enough with the spamming of car question threads. Cease and desist.
  15. What if a Hipper ran into a Brooklyn?

    Once again you wind up with a KM design that is overweight and under armored vs an USN ship that is simply over engineered for its mission. While a "Treaty" cruiser the Brooklyns were huge (12,000+ tons full load), allowing them to carry huge amounts of armor. The 6"/47 is also a heavy hitter...
  16. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    There are some good things to be said... The number of deaths do to warfare has fallen off the table. 800,000 people didn't die in Rwanda, millions didn't die in Iran/Iraq. There was no long Liberian Civil War, no blood diamonds. Terrorism is rare to the point that the term would be...
  17. DBWI: The UN chose Palestine insted of Germany to establish Israel in?

    Seriously? You just don't get it do you? You get back from a kick YESTERDAY for posting no thought one liner threads and you post this? Against my better instincts I'm going to try one last time to get you to understand that this BS is unacceptable. You are kicked for a week. You...
  18. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Ever is a long time. I would guess that there is a chance that the screws would relax to a degree after the reparations were paid off. Somewhere around 2050-2070 is a safe guess. That assumes that some political group doesn't make continuing the monitoring a political football in the U.S. or one...
  19. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    It is an interesting question, not one that I really considered in writing the T/L, as much due to the style I had chosen to use for what was, initially, supposed to be the entire T/L. This being said... The situation that existed in 1954, that had existed since the Bombing Holiday in 1947...
  20. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    I agree across the board. That is, however, not what the U.S. had in the hopper, and much of the construction was due to it already being in motion. Unlike IOTL the war was clearly won by mid-1944, at least from the naval construction aspect, this allowed the U.S. to slow or cancel a lot of...
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