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  1. AHC: Better X-Men movies?

    It is ALWAYS the director's fault if a movie is bad (not the acting, great directors have been snaked by lousy actors, but the movie, that is the Director's baby). Movies are the vision of the director. Every actor, every scene, every shot, hell in many cases the inflection on every word, is, as...
  2. Japan wins at Midway?

    :eek: You would need balls big enough to come in a dump truck to do that with a B-17.
  3. Japan wins at Midway?

    Once you get ASB involved anything is on the table.:p Reality is that the idiocy of using impeachment as a political tool is a recent, rather depressing development in the U.S. At worst you might see some losses in the mid-term elections.
  4. German WWII Battleship construction questions

    The tricky part is the extra 3-4 knots of speed. The KGV, South Dakota, and Yamato class ships all managed to get 27 knots fairly easily, and the Montanas (which were supposed to be a balanced design) were pegged at 27 knots as well. The sort of hull you need to get 30+ knots is so bloody...
  5. German WWII Battleship construction questions

    The Bismarck supposedly touched 30 knots on her builder's trials (I say supposedly because it was EXACTLY 30.01 knots and the Reich had bragged she would be able to exceed 30 knots, so...) and she has a very narrow window of invulnerability against her own guns, which makes her a semi balanced...
  6. How Effective Is the Atomic Bomb on a Germany Already Victorious in the East?

    No they didn't. They had interceptors that could reach that altitude. Significant difference. IOTL B-36s regularly, and literally, flew circles around fighters making practice intercepts. The fighter simply lacks the lift at that altitude. Even today you will find that fighters don't play at...
  7. How Effective Is the Atomic Bomb on a Germany Already Victorious in the East?

    Japan surrendered after being driven back across the Pacific with horrific losses, including virtually its entire Navy and merchant fleet, being subjected to a bombing campaign that makes the ETO version look like a modern day drone strike, being literally reduced to starvation rations (in many...
  8. No Washington Naval treaty Who wins?

    ALERT!! Thread won. Move along.
  9. Britain joins the USA in 1970....

    Hmmm... So that is it for the Queen as even a figurehead, Parliament (and the parliamentary system), the Pound, the Union Jack, a permanent member of the UNSC, the National Health Service, unarmed policemen, and extra "u"s in words? Okay. Can you imagine the absolute insanity that this...
  10. More German light cruisers

    Not if they were expected to return. As i said, they could go out. If they came back, that was reason for celebration. Since one CL could be used to construct and crew half a dozen u-boats, most of which would get multiple missions with a reasonable chance of survival, the surface ship's time...
  11. More German light cruisers

    German surface ships lost all reason for existence at the end of the Norway Campaign. After that high point commanders needed to consider any ship lost before it entered the North Sea and find their return to port an unexpected bonus.
  12. No Washington Naval treaty Who wins?

    Well, the Washington Treaty only prevented a building war. If it failed I would say the big winners would have been shipyards.
  13. German WWII Battleship construction questions

    Last question first. No, a 35,000 ton ship with eight 14" guns can not be armored against 16" shellfire. The closest you get is probably the KGV class, at 38,000 tons (in Treaty load, 43K full load) and 28 knots. You also can not achieve a balanced design with any 15" or 16" ship and the size...
  14. How Effective Is the Atomic Bomb on a Germany Already Victorious in the East?

    B-17/B-24 operated at 24-28,000 feet (they could push higher but at the cost of payload and crew endurance), Bomber Command Lancasters were usually around 20,000'. B-29s could operate very nicely over 30K without any impact on the crew thanks to hull pressurization and heating. B-36 were 40K...
  15. The Soviets start WW3 in 1959

    Probably not. The Soviets were still very much on the wrong side of the Nuclear equation at that time. The U.S. can do vastly more damage to them than they can hope to do to the U.S. As soon as it starts the Soviets will also have to be ready to deal with their lines of supply (they would...
  16. Yamamoto lives

    Difference is that he didn't personally demonstrate that MacArthur was an utter failure as a commander and didn't conquer and occupy MacArthur's favorite place on Earth, thereby ruining MacArthur's retirement (and the rather sweet deal he had with the Commonwealth's governement)
  17. WI:Nazis dont hate the Jews

    Yes and no. The Freikorps, from whence the Party sprang, was not specifically Antisemitic. It was virulently anti communist, anti Slav, and brutally violent, but only Antisemitic insofar as the supposed linkage between the Jews and Bolsheviks. However, once Hitler established the German workers...
  18. How Effective Is the Atomic Bomb on a Germany Already Victorious in the East?

    It is, but the math doesn't change. The U.S. can simply bury the Reich in air frames if that is what's needed. One thing that needs to be brought forward is that even a Reich that has pushed the USSR out of the war and to the Urals is going to be resource poor. It is easy to overlook that the...
  19. WI:Nazis dont hate the Jews

    Then they wouldn't be Nazis. One of the more common misconceptions regarding the Nazis is that you can somehow trim off the bug-fuck nuts like its a bread crust. You can't. The Antisemitism isn't an aberration of a normal political party, it IS the party. The National Socialists were...
  20. How Effective Is the Atomic Bomb on a Germany Already Victorious in the East?

    The question comes down to the when as much as the actual effect. Hitting a bombed out city with a 1st generation weapon is mainly a matter of rearranging rubble and some fall out effects. The impact in that case, especially considering the mind-set of the Reich's leadership is likely to be...
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