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  1. Map Thread XII

    This action has been reversed based on the member's apology/explanation.
  2. Map Thread XII

    I am tempted to bookmark this post. It is a textbook example of what is frequently asked in the HoI, namely "how do you determine what is a kick/warning/ban?" This post would, for someone with a reasonably clear history, get either a "cut it out" post into the thread, or, at most, an Official...
  3. Weathermen type group in the 2000s

    Might have been okay except for the: "p.s. Close the borders For the win" That appears nowhere in any of the variants of the meme. That was your addition. Here's mine: We divorce you To Coventry with you.
  4. WI: Japanese invasion of Ceylon?

    IJA zombie sighted. Indian Army SPECOPS team dispatched. Zombie negated.
  5. War remained isolated between the U.K. and Germany

    The Reich had written off nuclear weapons. They had done the math, gotten their sums wrong, called in the dogs and pissed on the fire. The powers that be had never been very comfortable with all the "Jewish science" to begin with. Reich advances were, in the main, as much desperation as...
  6. WI: Boris Yeltsin launches accidental nuclear war?

    Everyone dies. The end. Cut this crap out.
  7. WI: Japanese-American holocaust

    It wouldn't happen. The entire concept is ludicrous. Any officers who did it would be arrested, catch a General Court, and dance Danny Deever.
  8. WI Gadaffi sucesfully attacks QE2 in 1973?

    Oh HELL Yes. The British could invoke Article 5 of the NATO Charter. Wrath of God time.
  9. AHC: Australia as a superpower?

    He said superpower, not AWESOME power. :D
  10. Earliest the US Navy could match the Royal Navy?

    Around 1925, maybe as late as 1930, assuming no WW I or some sort of UK/U.S. war intervenes. The biggest issue for the U.S. isn't even in battleships, its in lighter forces, cruisers & destroyers in particular. The USN didn't get serious about destroyers until about 1916 with the arrival of...
  11. AHC: Dozen or More F-15 Operators

    You have just shattered me a human being. One of the best stories of the 1970s isn't true?:eek: I have read that story in journals directly quoting Mc-D execs for literally decades. The thing is that the Iranians are never seen as being "ooh... shiny" in the story, but are more impressed by...
  12. Raptor in RAF service

    What hurt the F-22 was that the order kept getting cut. That spread the development costs over fewer and fewer aircraft. Had the original full order of 750 aircraft been procured the R&D cost per aircraft would have been ~$33M, with the entirely inadequate 183 final order the R&D cost is ~$153M...
  13. WI American East Indies, No Alaska

    Alaska was acquired to keep it out of the hands of a European Power. Any additions in the Caribbean or even a lease in Borneo wouldn't change that. If anything a recent open war with a European colonial power would make the purchase even more certain.
  14. AHC: Dozen or More F-15 Operators

    The F-15E would have provided a lot more capability as a replacement for the F-111 than the F-18E/F. More range, heavier weapons load, and the fact is that the USAF uses the Strike Eagle in the role that had been filled by the F-111. The RAAF already was operating the F/A-18A/B and had a lot...
  15. Raptor in RAF service

    Zero probability event. The Typhoon deal was made to prop up the aerospace industries of the four participating countries. No single country can even build the aircraft since major sub assemblies are only made in one of the four partners. They need to get 3/4 of the aircraft from the other...
  16. AHC: Dozen or More F-15 Operators

    They bought the F-14 because the folks at Grumman pulled a fast one at the demonstration fly off. Both companies agreed that they would not turn the fly-off into a aerobatics display. The Eagle went first, followed the agreement, demonstrated the aircraft's abilities but didn't put together a...
  17. Question about Pershing's rank of General of the Armies, and the 6 Star-Rank.

    Actually I think that Washington would be an O-12 unless the decision was that Pershing was an O-12, then Washington would be either an O-13 or O-14. Current U.S. law requires Washington to have higher ranks than any other American officer, ever. If the U.S. was to become some sort of...
  18. WI: Britain renews alliance with Japan in 1922

    Not without some really MASSIVE POD, probably going back into the 1700s. One problem, right from the start, is that the Entente would not have achieved any sort of victory without a U.S. as it existed IOTL, not so much from military assistance, although the reality of huge numbers of U.S...
  19. Flying Tigers Question?

    This was one of the errors that the Allies made early on. It was an effort to fight the A6M on its terms. What Chennault, and in a totally different manner, Jimmy Thatch did was take away the one thing that the Zero had, superb low speed maneuverability by refusing to play that game. Use armor...
  20. Sealion on Land

    This sort of handwave isn't how things work in the "Main" forums (Pre/post 1900 and FH) by common consent. There has to be a reasonable Point of Departure (POD) from Our Time Line (OTL). Please keep this in mind in future threads. CalBear The Mod with salmon breath.
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