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  1. Worst decisions of WW2

    I'm not at all sure that bailing out the Italians in Libya was in the Reich's best interest. The same, except more so, can be said for Greece. Italy's impact on Hitler's plans was uniformly negative (arguably more destructive while the Italians were allied than after Italy saw the error of its...
  2. Worst decisions of WW2

    I'm not ignoring them as much as stating that engaging the USSR while still being heavily engaged in the Western Desert, especially in the area of transport aircraft and light bombers, as well as noteworthy number of troops, and having diverted forces into Yugoslavia that had been earmarked for...
  3. Worst decisions of WW2

    There really is no doubt that the Reich and USSR were going to engage. Choosing to do so while fighting on entirely voluntary ground campaign is quite another. Doing it before ensuring that an absolute maximum level of preparedness, especially when the soon to be opponent is furnishing you a...
  4. Worst decisions of WW2

    1. Barbarossa - Voluntarily starting a 2nd front while still actively engaged? Ya' that'll work. Compounded the error five months later by deciding to add the United States to the guest list. 2. Pearl Harbor - Japan 3.5% of global war making potential; U.S. 41.7%. Brilliant. 3. Japan invading...
  5. WW2 Japan attacks Siberia , and why did Japan fear the USSR and not the US in WW2?

    While very well trod ground hereabouts, the Japanese had to go to war with the U.S. when they did. Every day they waited the U.S. grew stronger and the extremely short window of opportunity the Empire had to have the smallest hope to engage. The Japanese had a remarkably poor understanding of...
  6. Britain Surrenders WI: US forces in NZ

    Why, in any scenario, would the UK even remotely consider surrender to the Japanese? Even if they did for whatever unfathomable reason why would the Dominions, who were in everything but name fully independent (complete Home Rule, in the case of NZ even "advising" the Crown on who to appoint as...
  7. Royal Navy without the Washington Naval Treaty

    Grave Robber observed. Summary justice taken.
  8. Gas shells for battleships in WWI?

    WW I accuracy was less than ideal. At Jutland, the HSF, which was the more accurate of the two, manged 122 hits out of 3597 shots fired (3.39%) The GF managed 123 out of 4534 (2.71%). This doesn't account for near misses (one lesson of the battle was that a high angle near miss was often better...
  9. Ottomans POP demand mod help please :)

    What are you asking?
  10. AHC more successful M551 Sheridan?

    I wouldn't say that no one whined about the M-113. Troops in the 'Nam refused to ride inside the damned thing. They used to put gear inside (rations, extra ammo, all the misc. crap you have to drag around) but they troops would put a layer of sandbags over the top, pile a few more around the...
  11. AHC more successful M551 Sheridan?

    How bad was it? Apparently the U.S. bought 88,000 rounds for the weapon and SIX were actually expended in combat (all in 1991 against Iraqi bunkers).
  12. DBWI: FDR does not die in 36

    Who the hell is FDR? Never heard of the guy.
  13. how about a sealion thread

    I'll be over in the corner with the mop.
  14. AHC more successful M551 Sheridan?

    Finding an actual mission for the thing would be nice. It would have been REALLY handy on June 5th, 1944 to have an air dropped light tank, by 1967, not so much. The Sheridan can be easily destroyed by an RPG, any decent anti-vehicle mine will make mince meat out of it. It was a decade (at...
  15. Way for WWII to end in stalemate?

    Utterly impossible short of ASB intervention. You can pull it off in Europe, not easily, but barely possible as long as it happens before the Red Army becomes the RED ARMY (Stalingrad remains, IMO, the last chance and its not exactly a great one). Still there is a path that can work, even if...
  16. Churchill wins 1945 general election, leads to war with India

    A revolt in India is a very, very low possibility. A war, since it was part of the Empire, not so much. The UK didn't really have the money to engage in a massive deployment in hopes of suppressing the inevitable. Keep in mind that the UK had rationing on fuel until 1950 and on meat until...
  17. AHC: Japan and USSR swap places in WWII

    The Japanese side of the equation is relatively simple with an earlier POD, even going to 1900, although a basic change to the Meiji Constitution to keep the military out of positions of political power would be better. 1930 is almost impossible short of ASB intervention. The way the Japanese...
  18. Plausibility Check: American Lancasters

    The Lancaster lacked the range and other performance needed. The B-29 was barely able to make the necessary escape maneuver and it had an extra 12,000 feet of altitude and 75 MPH of speed to play with. Sending a crew with a Lancaster would be a kamikaze mission.
  19. France Falls WWI

    Very likely, although the impact would be greater on the BEF than the French. The BEF would need the lost equipment in any further campaigns they may chose to launch/continue, the French are not going to be allowed to maintain any sort of heavy weapons by a victorious Germany in any case.
  20. France Falls WWI

    The Germans have to outright win by the end of 1917. Break through the entire trench system in several places on a broad enough front to actually use cavalry against rear area troops and hopefully spook them into a disorganized rout. Capture Dunkirk & Calais, sundering the BEF from the French in...
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