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  1. The British Congo

    "Zombie sighted. Loading m-86 thermobaric round." bloop "Target negated. "Request clean up, aisle 3."
  2. AHC: Pick a ship scrapped OTL as a Museum ship.

    Preserving nuclear powered ships is just too hazardous. It's unfortunate but you can't get around the long term dangers.
  3. AHC: Pick a ship scrapped OTL as a Museum ship.

    Yep. Big E in a walk. After her... HMS Warspite USS Saratoga HMS Dreadnaught
  4. Jetfighters early in WW2?

    Wouldn't Italy need to HAVE lots of money, not to mention industry, to pump it into said research? Italy wasn't an economic powerhouse by any stretch of the imagination.
  5. US follows Japan-first policy rather than Germany-first?

    The problem with a Japan First is that you need the ships to pull it off. Those take time to construct. As was the U.S. was at one point down to a single deck (USS Saratoga) and the loaned HMS Victorious (which must have damn near killed Admiral King) plus the seriously damaged Enterprise. That...
  6. Most Detailed Map Of Europe Project

    You are clearly wasting your skills here. You should be decorating your bridge. We Divorce you To Coventry with you.
  7. Can Germany win the Battle of the Atlantic?

    Carriers were not what the KM needed. Carriers are terrible in the commerce raiding role. They are meat on the table for OPFOR subs without significant screening, are hugely vulnerable to OPFOR surface assets in bad weather or at night without significant screening and are even vulnerable to air...
  8. Can Germany win the Battle of the Atlantic?

    Well, truthfully, they didn't. As it turned out it was a blip since the Japanese were so seriously outgunned production-wise, but the U.S. experienced, if not a crisis, at least a noteworthy shortage in steel in the six months leading up to D-Day. Construction on a number of major warships...
  9. Can Germany win the Battle of Britain during WWII?

    Figured one fight at a time wasn't enough? :p
  10. Can Germany win the Battle of the Atlantic?

    Recall that we were discussing the U.S. entering the war a year, if not more, earlier than IOTL. If that is the case it becomes necessary to shift the production peaks back. Now if the idea is that only one side changes, as in the Reich makes a series of unlikely changes that should (and with...
  11. Can Germany win the Battle of the Atlantic?

    If the U.S. goes into the war earlier, the production output goes up earlier. IOTL that didn't happen until 1942, immediately after the U.S. entered the war. Kaiser yards alone were able to put 1,100 Liberty ships in the water in a year. That doesn't count Victory ships, T1 & T-2 tankers...
  12. DBWI: Sephardic Jews never settled in Gaza

    You've been here as a member for better than three years and you haven't figured out yet that you don't pull out the term racist without justification? Remarkable. Hopefully you will henceforth remember.
  13. Can Germany win the Battle of the Atlantic?

    Not a chance. The Battle of the Atlantic, in the long run, was a matter of production. The U.S. can, quite literally, build more tonnage than the KM can sink (best month for the KM was ~700,000 tons, Kaiser was able to put ~42,000 tons into the water a day, every day). Same goes for long range...
  14. Can Germany win the Battle of the Atlantic?

    Once the U.S. enters the war full on the chances of actually managing to stave the British out are pretty much gone. The additional U.S. assets, especially in destroyers, but also in long range aircraft would have altered the battle dynamics (in 1940-41 a 50 ship convoy was fortunate to have...
  15. Can Germany win the Battle of the Atlantic?

    Depends on the definition of win and the timing. With 2-3 times the number of boats available IOTL and if they manage to keep their codes safe they might be able to cut the UK off and make it really difficult for Churchill to stay in the war. The politics of what happens if the British people...
  16. WI: US intervenes in the South Ossetia War

    There is oil in the region It isn't from Georgia; it is from the Azerbaijan Republic (the pipeline is the property of the State Oil Company Azerbaijan Republic e.g. SOCAR). There is also a natural gas pipeline that goes through Georgia from Russia that supplies Armenia with its gas (Georgia...
  17. Czechoslovakia prepared for the Warsaw pact

    How do you prepare for an invasion for every point of the compasss by forces equipped at least as well as your own (in actual practice the Soviet Army entered the country with at least double the number of tanks in the entire Czech TOE and with all Category A formations)? The Czechs could...
  18. WI: US intervenes in the South Ossetia War

    And here the reality is in a nutshell. The U.S. and Russia ARE NOT going to get into a shooting war over this issue. There are, in fact, damned few things that could get them into a flat out war (proxy war maybe, but straight up combat isn't going to happen short of some sort of NATO Cold War...
  19. WI: US intervenes in the South Ossetia War

    Literally can't be done, at least not without an act of war directed at Turkey. The only way to get a carrier through to the Black Sea would be by violating Montreux Convention, which prohibits the passage of any "non Black Seas" nation ship exceeding 15,000 tons (the same Convention limits...
  20. Alt Kriegsmarine

    The real question is exactly what the KM is going to do with its surface forces? Under most circumstances the KM had as much need for a 35,000 ton surface warship as a bee hive.
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