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  1. Operation Overlord fails

    It even goes beyond that. The U.S. didn't have ANY major amphibious landing repulsed in World War Two. None of them. That isn't, BTW, because the U.S. was so good at the actual landing operation (Tarawa, Peleliu, and to a degree Salerno demonstrate that), but because the U.S. never went in...
  2. AHC: Maximum number of US Major League team based outside of North America

    Depending on sport you can have teams almost anywhere in North/South America. Once you leave that footprint it gets to be almost impossible. East/West travel across more than three time zones simply can't be maintained, not on a regular basis. The NFL manages to do it with teams by giving them...
  3. Operation Overlord fails

    Can't be done. The consequences are dependent up on the reason for the failure, the totality of the failure, and what could have been done to salvage the situation. It is almost literally impossible to cause the Landing to fail. That POD is utterly critical to the events following it.
  4. WI: Germany pushes through Soviet Union 1941-42

    The issue with the Reich's 1941 offensive wasn't the capture of cities (you can't really afford to leave large numbers of paramilitary forces with weapons in your rear with a large base of supply to support them). it was the fact that there was too much USSR to inhale in a single bite. The...
  5. AHTL:Hurricane

    Enough speculation. Locked.
  6. Cruisers without the WNT

    Well, it was in comparison to the Courageous class. It hard to equal the lunacy of a ship with 15" or 18" guns that can be torn to bits with 47mm (and at shorter ranges, 37mm) anti-tank guns and that has deck armor that can't stop .50 cal AP rounds.
  7. Cruisers without the WNT

    The Iowas were battlecruisers, they were just never called by the term. The U.S. had washed its hands of the battlecruiser (having never actually built one made that easy) and Congress wasn't going to approve a BC that cost $100 million a pop so they called them battleships. The fact that they...
  8. Cruisers without the WNT

    Much as I hate them, they weren't quite that bad. The Alaska's main belt could stop a 37mm anti-tank gun. The Courageous class was dodgy on that.
  9. U.S. and Allied Forces reaching Berlin First

    I will grant that somebody was going to have to take the losses in the end, but racing to take them was idiotic. Berlin was worthless. Even the uranium was pretty much worthless (it wasn't like the Soviets had a gun type weapon sitting in the warehouse just waiting for the physics package)...
  10. Cruisers without the WNT

    The number of ships would, ironically, depend on what the Japanese built. The USN ships would be designed to be both superior on a ship v. ship basis and in greater numbers than the Japanese could field. The main difference would be that they would largely, if not completely, replace the...
  11. Plausibility of a Soviet defeat in WW2?

    Oh, in that case the entire idea is ASB. There is no conceivable way the the UK surrenders.
  12. U.S. and Allied Forces reaching Berlin First

    The good guys did reach Berlin. They proceeded to destroy the nest of vipers that was the 3rd Reich. There was absolutely no reason for the WAllies to go into Berlin. NONE. Even if they took half the losses the Red Army did, which is probably optimistic since the WAllies relied so heavily on...
  13. Trouble in Paradise: Bombs, Tears, and Votes in 90s America

    It isn't just who would be butterflied out, it is also who who might be butterflied in. There is a higher chance of military experience being a factor in the selection process. As an example of who would be hurt vs helped in this, using the candidates already mentioned Bush would be hurt...
  14. Trouble in Paradise: Bombs, Tears, and Votes in 90s America

    Couple comments, couple specific, one general. The specific - 1. Zero chance the U.S. media is kept in the dark. The President never travels without the media pool in attendance, usually traveling with POTUS on Air Force One. Someone blows up a bridge with his car on it and its on the news...
  15. Plausibility of a Soviet defeat in WW2?

    It's possible to construct a Reich wins scenario, but it requires multiple POD unless you go back into the 19th Century to shape your world, something that also makes keeping a Reich AND a USSR very tough. IMO the only way to get it (which I think folks may be getting tired of hearing, so I...
  16. The Eagle is Shedding!

    Agreed. I wasn't able to really follow the story at all without rereading it several times. Part of it may be that there is too much happening in to compact a post. I'll refrain from any comment on the story itself beyond a suggestion that it seems to be more something for the Writer's...
  17. Cruisers without the WNT

    You would still see as many BC as could be financed. The G3 design, on paper, was brilliant, easily the best of the classes that were eliminated by the WNT. The RN needed the light cruisers, as well as what OTL called the heavy cruiser, to operate in the colonies, many of the harbors there...
  18. Cruisers without the WNT

    Cruiser design was greatly aided by the Washington Treaty. Without it the heavy cruiser would likely have either never developed or have been a very different creature than the ones that came out of OTL. Even though Fisher style battlecruiser, with its massive armament and more or less pitiful...
  19. America: My Third TL

    Good to know. However OTL's Texas Revolution was very much about slavery. They couched in "States Rights" (a phrase that always seems to come up when the goal is reducing some poor bastard's human rights), but the flat out reality is that the change from a weak Federal system as set up in the...
  20. America: My Third TL

    Not based on this - Post 70, this thread. Unless I missed something OTL = Our Time Line e.g. real world. If you are taking about the Texas War of Independence Slavery was also a central point. Slavery was illegal in Mexico, so the original Anglo settlers declared their slaves indentured...
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