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  1. AHC/WI: German army fully motorised in time for Barbarossa

    The biggest issue is that the Reich's leadership never looked at the math. They actually believed their untermensch BS and expected the Red Army and the Soviet Union to literally crumble on the first attack. The poor performance of the defensive forces encouraged this and left even the...
  2. Eagle Claw worst case scenario

    The Soviet involvement wasn't that large, especially in April 1980, it totaled around 100,000 troops out of a ground force exceeding 3,000,000 men (about 8-900,000 in Category A formations), certainly not large enough to damage readiness (the systemic issues that Afghanistan caused the Soviet...
  3. AHC/WI: German army fully motorised in time for Barbarossa

    NOTHING did well in that sort of country. However, if a horse was stuck beyond any rescue you could always kill it and eat the poor bastard.
  4. Eagle Claw worst case scenario

    Worst case, as always in the Cold War era, is a Soviet/U.S. conflict. Next worst is a full on Iran/U.S. war with massive losses among Iran's civilian population. This one is just about a given if the Operation goes south once Delta is in Tehran and tries to fight its way out. Things go from...
  5. Early Pacific War

    The U.S., however, was in the Western Pacific. You would need to find a way to eliminate the Spanish American War, which is far from easy, and the American Annexation of Hawaii, which is even more difficult since the U.S. saw Hawaii as important to the defense of the U.S. West Coast. There...
  6. Early Pacific War

    Japan wasn't THAT flush with cash. Not to keep up with the UK or U.S. building plans. The U.S. would have been hard pressed and it had far more available funds post war. The entire reason for the Washington Treaty was to stop the rather insane spending spiral that threatened to bankrupt pretty...
  7. AHC/WI: German army fully motorised in time for Barbarossa

    Welcome to the glorious world of logistics. :D
  8. AHC/WI: German army fully motorised in time for Barbarossa

    The 25K vehicles were just supply the divisions each day (and it assumes very good road conditions) from the supply depots located, per Heer regulations, 50 miles from the front line. In many cases the Heer had to set up four-six Supply depots to achieve this (advancing forces were often 200-300...
  9. Map Request Thread

    Multiple Zombies observed. Alert Elf Team 6. .... Elf Team Six Actual to Workshop One: Zombies Located and engaged. Interdiction Successful. Zero friendly losses. Request usual sleigh recovery. Out.
  10. AHC/WI: German army fully motorised in time for Barbarossa

    It was actually a combination of both issues. They lacked fuel, but, as you note, their logistical chain wasn't really up to supplying a major fully motorized offensive over the distances involved on the Eastern Front. It is worth looking at the difficulty the Allies, who had what can only be...
  11. Japan Doesn't Attack the US in 1941.

    Paper threats are still threats, especially when you potential opponent can turn them from paper to real in a blink of an eye. The so-called Pensacola Convoy (named after the lead escort vessel USS Pensacola CA-24) was in fact only days away from the PI when the war started. Iy would have...
  12. Japan Doesn't Attack the US in 1941.

    The U.S. huffed and puffed about China and the U.S. started to undercut the Japanese international trade position before the move into Indochina but it wasn't until 26 July of 1941, after the Japanese moved into French Indochina despite American and British warning not to, that the U.S. cut the...
  13. Japan Doesn't Attack the US in 1941.

    I'd make nice with the U.S. Withdraw from French Indochina, which was actually what really set the U.S. off and caused the oil embargo in the first place. The gains to the Japanese war effort by taking the French colonies were far less then the cost. Japan was already engaged in what was...
  14. AHC/WI: German army fully motorised in time for Barbarossa

    What does it give up to achieve this? Reduction in tanks? Aircraft? U-Boats? Every two truck engines means one fewer aircraft engine or two tank engines, every three-four truck frames means one less tank body, Every 10-15 trucks means one fewer u-boat. Every four-five truck miles driven is a...
  15. Japan Doesn't Attack the US in 1941.

    This is a oft discussed subject here. A search of topics will get you a wealth of discussions; however, to briefly address the issue... The Japanese had no choice strategically but to calculate that the U.S. would react with hostility to the attack against the Southern Resource Area. The U.S...
  16. DBWI: Aerosmith hadn't died in 1977

    Well, if that had been the end of her career I would agree. Of course you are forgetting the Supporting Oscar for Good Will Hunting, the Lead Oscar in Shakespeare in Love and her nominated performance in Zero Dark Thirty (which I still think was the top performance of that year). OOC: She was...
  17. DBWI: Aerosmith hadn't died in 1977

    They were okay, but Best Ever? So don't think so. They had one REALLY great tune Dream On and that was about it. A better question is what would have happened if the crash had taken place BEFORE Liv Tyler was conceived. She had been one of the great American actresses of her generation, maybe...
  18. Shortest Possible US War Against Al-Qaeda

    Years. Killing the AQ leadership is useful in that it disrupts the C&C and operational planning, something that reduces the threat dramatically, but it doesn't defeat AQ. To defeat it requires that the underlying social issues that allowed AQ to form, that is much more difficult. AQ exists...
  19. Use of tactical nuclear weapons in a NATO - WP war late 1950s

    ...weapons free...Fox Three... Rudolph Hard kill visually verified. Necro downed Sleigh 3 returning to station.
  20. WI: "Overlord" in North Germany/Denmark?

    I'm not complaining about it. I simply pointed out that the data was incorrect.
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