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  1. Russian Civil War in this scenario?

    Short version is that its impossible, Especially in the early 20th Century. Probably impossible today in the technical sense. . Even if it was technically feasible it would be economically insane. Spend as much as the construction of the Panama Canal (and that estimate is WAY low, BTW) to...
  2. Why Overlord?

    There are a finite number of landing craft, personnel and material available. The Balkans were, at best, a sideshow. Logistically the area is a nightmare. The concern of politics post war took a back seat to actually winning the war, but a Balkans offensive would do anything but improve the post...
  3. AHC: No Qing dynasty

    DO NOT try to derail threads by inserting current political elements, especially of the flame-bait variety. Political Chat exists for a reason. Use it.
  4. WI: Saudi Arabia Intervenes in the Iran-Iraq War

    You may be overly optimistic. Both the U.S. and USSR had HUGE stockpiles of Chemical Weapons in the 1980s (How huge? Glad you asked. In 1997 the U.S. declared that had 31,000+ TONS of CW that it needed to destroy to comply with the CW Convention. As of last year the U.S. has about 3,000 tons...
  5. German Logistic Ability

    No doubt. The Combined Bombing Offensive was a huge factor in the Reich's logistical issues. Nonetheless the figures very much still illustrate the massive gap between what Reich had available to support a two front (and eventually 3 front since there were separate defensive fronts in the...
  6. German Logistic Ability

    Every time I convince myself that I am the biggest logistical geek here. I am proven wrong. Ave Frater! :D
  7. German Logistic Ability

    The Reich lacked the capacity to produce enough trucks to handle the support of motorized columns and the manpower to run them. Without sufficient high speed transport the armored columns were always right on the edge of fatal supply shortages. This was especially the case in the East as the...
  8. Alternate German Offensives 1944-45

    By late 1944 nothing was going to help, not in the long run (actually far sooner than that, but that exceeds the OP question). Any Western offensive last exactly as long as Allied air can't fly CAS or until ground forces can be shuffled to deal with the change in the threat axis. Any Eastern...
  9. AHC WI: John Anderson Wins As An Independent In 1980

    Short of a couple very specific, small size meteor strikes? Not chance on Earth (and I say that as someone who VOTED for him).
  10. AHC: Roanoke Colony Survives and Succeeds?

    Villagers dispatched to cleanse zombie with fire.
  11. ASK : Is Railguns, Hovercraft, and ICBM ASB for 1940-1950s?

    Short answer: Yes. Slightly longer answer: There is a vast difference between theory and application. Railguns are just now becoming a realistic option. The advantages and concept of them has been understood for at least half a century, but the devil is in the details. Entire industries had...
  12. A History of the Mosaic Faith

    Zombie sighted. Brad Pitt en route.
  13. Operation Sea Lion: The Invasion Itself

    Failures in order? Unarmed paratroopers get slaughtered by everything from Lewis guns Enfields to farmer's shotguns. Figure 50% losses, no chance to concentrate. Minimum 30% losses in the Channel before the landing force een gets close to the shoreline. Major losses in armor and vehicles as...
  14. DBWI: A Partly Return Of The Beringia Bridge

    Not a DBWI. Not even close.
  15. Which colonial empire do you like most?

    This is a Chat subject. It has a 99.999999999999999999% chance of getting political. It can not be moved to Chat due to including a poll. That leaves Hobson's Choice. Locked.
  16. Bulgarian conquest of Constantinople?

    Seriously? A four year necro AND a happy face after recommending the destruction of an architectural treasure? Seriously? NEVER do this sort of trolling again.
  17. Nudity Socially Acceptable

    Five years isn't just dead, its decomposed. Locked
  18. DBWI/AHC: Salvador Dalí not become dictator of Spain.

    This isn't a DBWI. DBWI take an ACTUAL OTL event and pose it as WI "What if D-Day had succeeded?" is a DBWI. Thread locked
  19. DBWI/AHC: Barack Obama fails on Reagan's assassination

    This isn't a DBWI. DBWI take an ACTUAL OTL event and pose it as WI "What if D-Day had succeeded?" is a DBWI. This; however, is flamebait trolling. Kicked for a week. Thread locked
  20. Questions about B29 vs B17 Bombers

    Using that stat you can also extrapolate that each combat box of 12 aircraft shot down 2 enemy fighters per average mission. Attacking the bomber stream wasn't a turkey shoot by any stretch. I can't begin to remember the source but I recall reading a stat that more Luftwaffe fighters were...
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