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  1. What were the biggest tech and weapon mistakes and missed opportunities of Germany in ww2

    Hope no-one thinks I'm suggesting that underground storage is immune to being bombed ... just harder to find and put out of action than an oil refinary or synthetic oil plant ... To be fair, it took the USA entry into the war to focus the Brits. on fact that precision bombing of strategic...
  2. Es Geloybte Aretz Continuation Thread

    It is, but they got it in the first round so basically it's a case of getting back what the Russians took away.
  3. Es Geloybte Aretz Continuation Thread

    I suspect if he were born at all, it would be in Poland ITTL.
  4. Magnum's naval PoD's. Ep. 7 - Danish navy puts up a fight in 1940

    The Danish coast defence ships are oooooooold, they're late 1890's designs, their speed is probably less than 16 knots due to their age, those torpedoes would be very small and again old (thus short ranged and slow) and the guns are again, old and I'd guess their crews were also very green...
  5. Es Geloybte Aretz Continuation Thread

    Baku is always a kingly price, even if the last two inhabitants died strangling each other. It has something like an 1/8th of the global oil production at this time. Until the survey of Ghawar, it has more oil production capacity than all the holdings of the Ottoman empire, by a factor of 3 or so.
  6. A Thorn In The Rose: A War Of The Roses TL
    Threadmarks: Chapter 131: Calais Again

    Chapter 131: Calais Again November, 1460 It was cold. Bitterly cold. Some of the men thought that meant snow was approaching, but Lionel doubted it. It hadn’t snowed in Calais for twenty years if some of the locals were to be believed so why would it start snowing now? They wouldn’t be so...
  7. Es Geloybte Aretz Continuation Thread

    Moshe Dayan was born on 20 May 1915 in Kibbutz Degania Alef, near the Sea of Galilee in Palestine, in what was then Ottoman Syria within the Ottoman Empire, one of three children born to Shmuel and Devorah Dayan, Ukrainian Jewish immigrants from Zhashkiv.
  8. Magnum's naval PoD's. Ep. 7 - Danish navy puts up a fight in 1940

    As it happens, we had this exact situation occur, where a German bomber force of Stukas and other aircraft bombed ad strafed the Niels Juel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Isefjord After 40 minutes of attacks, a near miss knocked out the electricity and fire control systems, leading to...
  9. Naval developments in a world without nukes

    .. and that's the problem. Laws of Physics ... a bomb IS going to be made because it IS going to work.. The 'only' problem is enriching the Uranium ... that's not easy and is rather costly ... especially if you do it in a hurry .... (like, because you are at war) reactor bred Plutonium is by far...
  10. List of monarchs III

    ...the Netherlands (his paternal grandmother was Marianne of the Netherlands, sister of William II of the Netherlands, who was Emma's great grandfather*) three years after becoming Prince and, despite being a loving relationship, the pair produced only one child. The marriage also brought...
  11. Sargon

    More effective Japanese ASW in ww2

    There were some officers who served as observers in the RN during the First World War who took notice of the effects of the submarine against the UK's merchant shipping. They did compile reports, but were not listened to much, and even later on when concerns were raised, for a variety of...
  12. Third Bard's the Charm: A High Byzantine TL

    Didn't OTL Romanos III screw up against Aleppo around this time? Perhaps it's them? Interesting concept, will follow with interest.
  13. With a POD in October 1918, how much longer can WWI last?

    Is it possible, with a POD one month before Armistice Day, to have WWI last into December or possibly 1919? Does this mean that the allies advance into Germany? How does an extended WWI, even if just by days or weeks, affect the course of history?
  14. Armored trains post ww2

    I am just going to bomb the bridges or tunnels. or depot where the train lives........................................
  15. Map Thread XX

    Something unconventional for this because honestly with four (relative) superstates like that, you need a bit of creativity to make it not boring. Also I'm not good at drawing borders without decent refence materials, so...
  16. WI the Enterprise in Pearl Harbor?

    Not really, there's been seven vessels bearing the name HMS Enterprise since that one got stolen.
  17. Alternate Aircraft of Nations

    Surely you'd base this on the XC-99 with the massive troop-transport fuselage, rather than the stock B-36? Assuming the modifications are major enough you'd need new-build airframes rather than bolting bits on to a spare bomber. You might start off designing just a flying radar but with all that...
  18. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    Depending on how Greece goes, HMS Formidable might be available for service in the far east, along with HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales, which would dramatically change the equation.
  19. Armored trains post ww2

    I think you will find the Soviets had some interesting trains with ICBM's
  20. WI the Enterprise in Pearl Harbor?

    Ha ! I knew it .... "The problem with the French is that they have no (word for) Enterprise" ... That's because it was stolen by the British who then lost it to the Americans !!
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