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  1. WI: US invades Gibert and Marshalls instead of Guadalcanal

    In the other thread is isn't so much that the U.S. can leave Guadalcanal alone as it it the given the posses in the scenario, Guadalcanal simply wouldn't be doable. There is a lot to recommend a Gilberts, Marshalls, Marianas, Bonins, Ryukyus, strategy. It was actually what the Navy wanted to...
  2. Japan wins at Coral Sea, Midway, and the Eastern Solomons

    An attack on New Caledonia would be a disaster for the IJN. It creates the same sort of scenario as the USN ran into at Okinawa, except far worse. You wind up with a fast carrier force staked out like a goat while an enemy with inferior forces can simply whittle away at it. In this case it...
  3. Japan wins at Coral Sea, Midway, and the Eastern Solomons

    Not many that are not IN ASB. Japan's run of luck IOTL was almost unimaginable. Extending it out even further is sort of unlikely, to the point of virtually impossible. However, in this case the USN will almost certainly not try for Guadalcanal, olny reason to have them do so is so another...
  4. 10 Shocking WWII cliche AltHist scenarios

    Well, I'm shocked. Might be the weather, but static electricity from the damned cat is my bet.
  5. AHC/WI: IJN Adopts a Logistics Denial Strategy

    Drydocks and machine shops, especially the latter, are incredibly difficult to destroy (something the WAllies found out during the Bomber Offensive). You can burn down the structures, but the tools are made of sterner stuff and can be back in operation in a few days. Hitting the fuel tanks is...
  6. WI: Vietnam as a Special Ops War

    The concept of SPECOPS as it exists today hadn't even been created in the early 1960s. Army Special Forces were trainers and advisors and the SEALs hadn't even morphed out of UDT until 1961. In 1962 there were only about 100 SEALS total, all plucked out of UDT, even at the height of Vietnam...
  7. WI: Iowa-class battleships upgraded to nuclear propulsion?

    Engineering wise it it close to impossible. You would quite literally disassemble the ship down to the engineering spaces. Ships designed from scratch for nuclear refueling have this sort of capacity built in, the Iowas are exactly the opposite, they are designed to be as difficult to...
  8. USN Treaty BBs with 14 inch guns

    Be a really expensive White Elephant class. They weren't laid down until the Japanese had abrogated the Treaty, so they would also be a rather idiotic decision. The RN went with 14" guns due to some rather pie-in-the-sky management by hope by British political leaders, namely that if they...
  9. AHC/WI: IJN Adopts a Logistics Denial Strategy

    The AIM-54 was also never used in its designed role, the destruction of heavy bombers like the Tu-95 and Tu-22M and cruise missiles. Its only uses were against fighter size targets that are dramatically more maneuverable, something that allowed pilots to evade the weapon. Blaming the weapon for...
  10. AHC/WI: IJN Adopts a Logistics Denial Strategy

    The difficulty with this is two fold. 1. The U.S. shipbuilding industry was so successful that adding more escort vessels would be of relatively minor impact. West Coast yards were more than capable of construction of destroyers and destroyer escorts, as well as CVE while still punching out...
  11. WI: Suspenders instead of belts

    We have a thread for this sort of images in NP Chat. Strongly recommend you use it in the future.
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