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  1. Why is Germany so powerful?

    That may be the first time I ever read that last sentence.
  2. One Small Step......

    That's about enough of this BS. Cease and desist. Now.
  3. PC: Rail mounted VLS

    Not really. When railway guns were useful, the tech for VLS wasn't there.
  4. Why is Germany so powerful?

    Had a nice snippy retort here, but "bash Germany" isn't the point of the thread. I will simply point out that Napoleon also won a number of great victories. Just didn't win enough. Same goes for the Confederacy.
  5. Why is Germany so powerful?

    Close doesn't count. Not when your national future is at stake. As noted Germany has NEVER won a war, not as Germany. Last win was pre-unification (and we are talking Unification I) while Prussia was still the prime mover. What is that? 144 years? Germany has fought too far above its...
  6. A Socialist Senator in 1916!? WI: A. Grant Miller won Nevada's Senate seat in 1916?

    Enough with the bumping. Its a Party foul. Threads either live or die. No CPR.
  7. Why is Germany so powerful?

    Fighting most of the War on the defensive in the West. Incompetent opposition in the East (I think it was a rule that any Russian General officer who had a shred of intelligence was to be immediately relieved). Luck. They also nearly starved, came justhtisclose to a revolution, and, oh ya...
  8. How much bombing can Britain handle?

    Far more than the Luftwaffe could deliver in Goring wildest dreams. Look at the pounding the Reich absorbed and survived, and the Luftwaffe can't even attack all of the UK.
  9. What if Japan invaded Hawaii during Pearl Harbor?

    While leaving an unhappy UK (Part of Borneo is under British control, and the Dutch are full out allies) in control of the tin, rubber and rice that was part of the primary reason for the attack. Oh, and leaving them in control of the choke point for the entire region, a position that they will...
  10. WI: SaaB VIGGEN & GRIPEN as NATO standard aircraft.

    Utter disaster? The Viggen was a nice little point interceptor, but it had U.S. aerospace written all through its DNA, from the powerplant (Pratt & Whitney, don't you know) to the avionics. No U.S. sources = No Viggen as we know it. No UK/French replacement sources = No ATL Viggen.
  11. WI: Japan Goes for USSR instead of USA + some more pods.

    There are plenty of POD. They mainly involve the Empire actually accepting that the Chinese are not simply a resource to expend.
  12. WI: Japan Goes for USSR instead of USA + some more pods.

    The tech is often more difficult to deploy than the discovery, not that the discovery would be easy. There is a reason the field wasn't located until 1959. The Japanese had control of half a dozen significant modern fields including Liaohe and Shengli.
  13. Christians Retake Constantinople - Now What?

    Wow. Talk about a false accusation of Antisemitism. There is no way that any reasonable reading of the post you reacted to implies anything in the same hemisphere as your accusation. You have two recent warnings, one from dragging current politics into a pre-1900 discussion and one for going...
  14. WI: Japan Goes for USSR instead of USA + some more pods.

    The IJA runs out of oil by late spring of 1942. The Japanese government forces the IJN to part with some of its remaining stocks. Those are gone by fall of 1942. The Japanese then have to try the same sort of thing the tried IOTL, but with less available resources and the USSR already killing...
  15. Do away with cars

    Make everyone poor. Poor, grinding poverty poor. If you are struggling to get enough food to survive a Chevy is not in your future. Traffic jams are not common in the poorest countries. As an alternative come up with a POD that allows the Soviets to dominate more of the world. Cars were an...
  16. WI: Armored Deck Essex Class Carriers

    It wasn't just number of aircraft. While not entirely due to the armored deck, RN carriers also had far smaller fuel resources available, both for aircraft as well as bunkerage. This was part of the basic design compromise that every warship designer has to live under and ships are built to...
  17. WI: Armored Deck Essex Class Carriers

    Ordering doesn't really mean a thing, the USN effectively ordered every carrier built before 1945 at the same time. Build time is, in general accepted practice, time from keel laid/1st steel to Commissioning There is additional time for trials and shakedown, but that is common throughout the...
  18. German Aircraft Carrying ships WW2

    Rather uncalled for, don'tcha think?
  19. German Aircraft Carrying ships WW2

    These are, without question, some of the worst uses of a military budget in the interwar period. I actually threw up in my mouth a little. They make the Tone class CA seem like acts of pure genius, make the Deutschland class look like a breakthrough equal to the Dreadnought, and the Kitakami...
  20. WI: Armored Deck Essex Class Carriers

    Enterprise was also a survivor of more battle damage than any ship had a right to survive (3 direct hits and 4 near misses at Eastern Solomons, 2 hits at Santa Cruz Island, 1 bomb hit in March 1945, Kamikaze on April 11, another Kamikaze on May 14th). She was less than half the size of the...
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