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  1. A Coastal BB question

    Safest would be long range torpedo attack. If you allow a Japanese ship into the scenario, I would go with a Takao class CA. Very fast (34 knots), strong gun battery with 10 8"/50 (two 3x3, two 2x2) guns, but a remarkable TWENTY FOUR 24"/610mm torpedo tubes. These were, of course, the Type...
  2. Hammer's, Sickle's, and Mushroom Clouds. the Story of the Reverse Cold War

    Wow, over the top much? I know its really cold up in Alberta, but did your brain freeze? This sort of crap is not acceptable here. Take a week to thaw out. When you return try being civil.
  3. Why Guantanamo?

    Coaling station was handy, it was also an excellent location for projecting force into the Caribbean and protection of the approaches to the Gulf of Mexico, not to mention Central and NE South America. Perhaps most critically it is an excellent location from which to defend the Canal Zone...
  4. No WW II with Hitler

    Wow. You don't post for 15 months and come back as a Nazi apologist? Too bad. We divorce you. To Coventry with you.
  5. WI: Kennedy, Johnson, McCormack and Hayden Died

    Really? A conspiracy? Any evidence?
  6. Back to the 90s: The Al Gore Presidency

    After some consultation with the other Mods Mike's kick will not be upgraded. I am going to lock the thread as its fruit from a poisoned tree.
  7. WI: There were no nukes

    The reality is that the military and civilian spheres have very different beliefs about nuclear weapons depending on who is in charge. There is a very strong current belief that a nuclear war is "containable" or that it can be limited in some practical manner. This is similar to the idiocy that...
  8. Back to the 90s: The Al Gore Presidency

    A straight lift?:mad::mad: That is, frankly, despicable. My first reflex is to flat out Ban you, IMO you have crossed the Rubicon. However, since part of my feeling is based on the fact that I write and post works here, I'm going to get some feedback from the other Mods. You are kicked...
  9. WI: There were no nukes

    Without nukes we would be up to WW IV, maybe even WW V by now. Figure one every 20-25 years while the losers lick their wounds and go back in to "make things right". Conventional Weapons are insufficiently powerful to inflict decisive defeat on Continental land mass spanning countries (think...
  10. Japan wins at Midway?

    I see by your jion date you are a long time member who just started posting. Welcome to the interactive part of the Board! Germany 1st would not change, if anything it would become more of the focus without an effective USN strike force. There is no way to focus the war effort into the...
  11. Nazi Germany has nukes in July 1941

    First off, welcome! We don't do things quite this way in the "main" forums (Pre/post 1900, FH). This sort of thing is called "handwaveonium" in that it requires all facts, common sense or reality to be ignored to bring something about. The Forums are, by general agreement, meant to discuss...
  12. Comanche attempt to capture Mexico City

    Savages? Really? I actually was going to let the first one go, figuring it was a bit of thoughtlessness. But you get called on it and you choose to defend it. I actually considered Banning you, but you have a clean record for infraction before this bit of absolute stupidity, so let's...
  13. Why did Korea and Vietnam Wars have different endings?

    Easiest way to phrase it is that the war in Korea had a readily definable goal. It also benefited from the nature of the conflict. Taking or losing ground makes sense to the average voter reading the paper at breakfast, the "no front lines" reality of Vietnam gave nothing like that. There...
  14. Can Germany win In the Mediterranean Theater?

    Move RN and RAF assets to the UK and the approaches. Bit more firepower for the RAF over France and in reacting to Luftwaffe raids as well as SurCAP over the Channel (unfortunately a lot of the fighters in the Desert were P-40s with the single stage supercharger and for all of their utility in...
  15. Can Germany win In the Mediterranean Theater?

    Remarkably this is just one of the possible changes that potentially exist. An extra, virtually fully motorized, Corps (a rarity in the Heer) might have tipped the balance in front of Moscow with all of its symbolic (and perhaps more critically, logistic) significance. In 1942 it might have...
  16. Can Germany win In the Mediterranean Theater?

    No. Africa was possibly the stupidest decision Hitler made prior to the declaration of war on the U.S. (It being an given that the Reich would attack the USSR based on Hitler's writings going back into the early 20s). The entirety of the Med theater was a completely optional fight undertaken...
  17. DBWI: No Arthur Tudor

    Zombie sighted. Zombie dispatched with head shot.
  18. Ike charge with war crimes

    I wasn't quite sure where you were coming up with this crap. Now that you have cited your "sources" I get it. You are either a neo-Nazi, a conspiracy theorist, a serious troll, or you have a 'Roo loose in your upper paddock. In any case you are on the wrong Board. Make that were on the...
  19. Egyptian History Confirmed

    Hmmm... Three posts. None of them remotely related to AH. All related to some odd sort of religious furor. Tell you what, I have just the place for you. If there is any spot that needs you it's there. We divorce you. To Coventry with you.
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