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  1. Naval Ships and Technologies without the Arms Treaties

    This last part is exactly what happened when the RN commissioned HMS Dreadnought. Reduced the advantage down to 1:0. By the time the war actually started the RN was barely paying lip service to the 2:1 requirement (they got around it by removing the USN from the "possible opponent" list, if the...
  2. Naval Ships and Technologies without the Arms Treaties

    Depends on the country doing the building. The RN had an 18" gun that was already proofed that had been deployed (the 18"/40 Mark I) so the build time could literally be that of the hulls, four years or less. The "/U.S. did not have an 18" barrel fully researched by the time of the WT, but an...
  3. Naval Ships and Technologies without the Arms Treaties

    The real question is money. If you manage to create a scenario where there is sufficient funding the results are very different than if you don't. The classic example are the very ships the WT was designed to stop dead; the "super-dreadnought++" like the G3 class BC, the South Dakota class BB...
  4. What if virtually every aircraft carrier was sunk in WW2

    Yamato was alone. IJN combat tactics, even at the end of the war were not designed to have the AAA of escorts defend the heavy ships. The destroyers only carried 25mm AAA guns, along with a few 13.2mm mg making them capable, at best, of local self defense (neither the 4.7" nor the 127mm/50...
  5. Japanese Volunteer Air Group Operation Sealion

    He did fly each aircraft (the list of aircraft he flew is utterly stunning) and unsurprisingly found the Zero to be a dream to fly. It was a dream to fly, a total pilot's aircraft. Turn on a dime, give you 9 cents change, think about a maneuver and it was already making it. Superb aerobatic...
  6. Are Evolution/Geological PODs inherently ASB subjects?

    Once you start with Chaos Theory, you have leapt beyond ASB and entered a realm that makes my pointy little head hurt.
  7. Are Evolution/Geological PODs inherently ASB subjects?

    These would work, provisionally. They all have POD issues that would be difficult to overcome without high level intervention, something that puts them into ASB. The most difficult is the Pompeii since the Pyroclastic surge that destroyed the city was not dependent on wind direction but on...
  8. Are Evolution/Geological PODs inherently ASB subjects?

    In a way, geology is deterministic in its nature. The Planet is the way it is based on events that can not be altered short of divine intervention (you can have no Moon, but that requires the collision that created it to be removed). Since the collision was determined by the way the Solar System...
  9. Japanese Volunteer Air Group Operation Sealion

    The Zero would be chopped to pieces in this scenario. Someday the myth of the A6M will end, God willing. It was an exceptional aircraft in many ways, but it was a very poor performer over 15K, was highly maneuverable at low speeds but far less at anything over 200 mph (intentionally, to...
  10. Are Evolution/Geological PODs inherently ASB subjects?

    In all likelihood the accusation would come only from you. I can live with that. I am not going to read 40,000 threads to determine which should be moved. Not happening. It would also be contrary to previous action of this type where older threads are "grandfathered" in. You don't like...
  11. Are Evolution/Geological PODs inherently ASB subjects?

    If you can establish a POD that doesn't equate to hand wave (i.e. no "Grok stepped on a bug, thereby changing all of evolution so there are four sentient species on Earth today") you could keep it here. The problem is that such a POD will take a LOT of effort, likely more than it is worth...
  12. Are Evolution/Geological PODs inherently ASB subjects?

    If you write an ATL where humans go extinct, or Dinosaurs evolve to sentience, or Pangea never breaks up and really don't want to use ASB, that is fine. This is why we have the Writer's Forum. Plenty of very good fiction in there. Good writing will always be welcome there. Regarding ASB: The...
  13. Are Evolution/Geological PODs inherently ASB subjects?

    Why are Geologic/Evolutionary POD in ASB? Simple. They, by definition, require non human intervention on the most macro of scales. Geology IS, it isn't something that humans can control. To change it is literally an act of God (Divine Intervention, ASB, take it as you wish) or magic. It...
  14. Are Evolution/Geological PODs inherently ASB subjects?

    Or C - You get over it and move on. I recommend C.
  15. Es Geloybte Aretz - a Germanwank

    Pull this crap again and you will be. That you can take to the bank.
  16. WI: Osama Bin Laden Capture alive

    We don't do the revenge fantasy thing here. Cease & desist.
  17. WI: Heavy Pistol Rounds in World War II

    It would, but the added recoil would be a sight to behold. While designs of pistols and long arms can mitigate some of the impact of recoil, a major way of doing it is by adding weight to the weapon, and the M1911 is already fairly hefty at 2.5 pounds empty (the current M9 pistol is about half a...
  18. WI No Pearl Harbour Attacks

    A huge part. The Japanese had never forgotten the way that Japanese immigrants were treated at the turn of the Century (laws limiting Japanese immigration were, even for the era, quite restrictive, and Japanese immigrants were not allowed to become citizens). The racial divide went both ways...
  19. WI No Pearl Harbour Attacks

    The thing is, and we've discussed this in the Forum many times, the Japanese simply can not go for the Southern Resource Area and leave the U.S. untouched. Regardless of who the President of the hour might be, the U.S. had been Japan's main focus in battle doctrine for decades. The U.S. bases...
  20. WI: Flight 93 Reclaimed from the Hijackers

    Actually water landings are usually an utter disaster. Usually you see a wing tip catch a wave or one engine pod touch first and toss the plane into a somersault. The Miracle on the Hudson was just that, a miracle (and one of the best pieces of flying ever recorded)
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