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  1. WI: Germany didn't attempt Operation Sea lion/no Battle of Britain?

    This requires Hitler to, well, not be a total nutso dirtbag. That is the overarching problem with all the scenarios, they require Hitler to act in a rational manner. This being said... The smartest course of action for the Reich would have been to effectively enact a unilateral cease fire...
  2. George III dies in 1788

    Zombie sighted. Team of Minute Men dispatched to deal with issue. Target negated.
  3. WI/AHC: Ise class battleship converted to AA-Battleship

    The 40mm wasn't a terrific medium caliber weapon, it was just better than anything else available, and by a wide margin. The inability to handle a proximity fuse wasn't really an issue before mid 1944, and ability to basically fill the area around each ship, and the entire formation, with...
  4. The us annexes mexico in the 1990s

    How many ASB did Washington have to dragoon to make this happen?
  5. How long could a coventional WW3 have lasted?

    That scenario is pretty much the one that NATO feared the most short of major WMD use, which is why Larry Bond modeled it for the original military training version of the now classic Harpoon (Bond actually co-wrote RSR, especially the naval combat sections). The Alliance's strategy in case of...
  6. How long could a coventional WW3 have lasted?

    In 1980? 2-3 weeks before the Red Army reaches the Rhine. To keep it conventional that is as far as they get. France WOULD use its deterrent force to prevent a Soviet invasion. NATO ground elements and even air elements were at their nadir, nobody in Brussels had any illusions about what would...
  7. British and French Military Pre-WW2

    Chill down folks.
  8. WI: The U.S invades North Vietnam

    The risk of actually involving either was quite small. The USSR wasn't going to go all in over North Vietnam, any more than the U.S. was going to go all in when the Russians crushed the Hungarians or the Czechs. The PRC hated the Vietnamese more than the U.S. ever thought they could hate them...
  9. WI:Nitrous Oxide (Laughing Gas) is used as a weapon during WW1?

    The concentration to achieve results is much too high to be useful. The "nice thing" about chlorine, mustard, phosgene, Lewisite and the rest of the witch's brew that was in use during WW I is that it take a low concentration to cause disabling effects. Chlorine, which was the least potent of...
  10. USS Liberty Receives Air Support

    It is a lot less fun to accept what did actually happen, namely that the IDF screwed up and that the Fog of War did exactly what it does, allowed a bunch of unrelated errors/normal peacetime decisions that should have been avoided in wartime, to combine and result in folks dying who shouldn't...
  11. WI: The U.S annexed South Vietnam

    It might have been a colony, although I would strongly disagree with that characterization simply based on the actual economic relationship beyond political considerations, but that doesn't mean, in any way, shape or form, that the next logical step is making it a state (see Puerto Rico, Guam...
  12. AH Question WWII

    Well, the first of many issues is that the Japanese didn't HAVE $7.2 Million in 1867 (that is $110 Million in 2013 dollars). The country was preoccupied by the downfall of the Shogunate and Meiji Restoration and even had it not be distracted it was very, very low on hard currency (the Tsar...
  13. Would Sealion be possible after Russia was subdued?

    At this point you are making an assumption not in evidence, namely that the Reich's military is powerful. It could just as easily be an eviscerated force that outlasted a Red Army that died slightly faster than it was killing the Reich's forces. You handwaved away the defeat of the USSR in...
  14. USS Liberty Receives Air Support

    More bothersome is that, unlike a couple Air Force Mirage jockeys, who were near bingo fuel and made a strafing pass, is that Israeli naval vessels made a series of deliberate attacks, launching a total of six torpedoes (one hitting and wiping out the 25 man NSA SIGNIT team) before someone on...
  15. Possibility: Japanese Axis Victory?

    This thread screams sockpuppet. I don't have a match, yet. Locked.
  16. USS Liberty Receives Air Support

    How far? Well the Alert 5 aircraft from USS America (four A-4 Skyhawks) had just finished a drill that involved preparation for attack on Sevastopol. As a result they launched with B-61 nukes as their payload. That far enough? The USS Saratoga also launched 4 A-1 Skyraiders with...
  17. DBWI: Wood is not Shot (Reds)

    Based off a movie. Goes either here or ASB.
  18. What if the third reich were to win world war 2?

    It is also worth noting that the entire point of AANW was to explore the lunacy that the Reich had planned for Europe. The vast majority of what turned into a huge thread, was a late development, mainly in response to repeated requests to do the story of the war. If you read just the pre-1954...
  19. What if the third reich were to win world war 2?

    Pretty much this. I had to really work to come up with a combination of circumstances, each of them low probability individually, to reach a POD, even that required a damned near ASB event (Stalin dropping dead) to work. The only other possibility involved the Politburo killing Stalin in...
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