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  1. WI: Kennedy Assassination pulls a Garfield?

    ACK!!! It's an Earl Warren Zombie!!! Back to the grave zombie! With Iron, Salt and Blood I fix thee to the Earth to rise no more!
  2. DBAHC: U.S. Manned Mission to the Moon

    Every time someone is a jerk in this Forum Snowy the baby sea lion cries. Please don't make Snowy cry again.
  3. Glossary of THE most common thread topics

    Cool down. Who the hell are you to fly off the handle like that?
  4. Flintlocks and Roman legions?

    Die Zombie, DIE! With Iron, Salt, and Blood i bind thee back into the Earth to rise no more!
  5. A Spanish-Moroccan War in 2002

    Actually they generally failed to look at the last post date and/or add a nonsensical cutesy remark or try to restart an argument with a Banned or inactive member.
  6. Pearl Harbour WIs?

    Hence my description of Wasp as a "mini-me".
  7. Pearl Harbour WIs?

    But I-6, one of the patrol line did put a torpedo in the Saratoga on January 6, 1942 while still on station. In the scenario postied the U.S. fleet would have to deal with both the direct screening line of 3 boats and the five mother ships of the mini-subs deployed all of which were fairly close...
  8. Pearl Harbour WIs?

    The Yorktown class, including the mini-me Wasp, was very resilient when it came to bomb damage, showing a remarkable ability to absorb bombs and later, in the case of Enterprise, kamikazes and come back for more. They were, however, also quite vulnerable to torpedo damage. Hornet, Wasp &...
  9. Germany keeps on fighting

    The U.S. will be a lot less unhappy about fighting if there is an actual victory. One of the things that put a bad taste in the collective American mouth was the way the war ended. It was neither a victory nor was it the "peace with honor" that Wilson pushed. As things went IOTL there really...
  10. Pearl Harbour WIs?

    The Yorktown was also ripped up by IJN aircraft, twice, despite having three times the CAP that would have been available to either U.S. deck on December 7th, and was saved by superb damage control. The Japanese also had close to 20 subs around Oahu, including three on a scouting line 100 miles...
  11. Germany keeps on fighting

    When? In 1918? There were no "Allies" it was the Entente. The Germans get crushed. The German Army was pretty much played out, as were the French, with the British not far behind, but the American Army was barely coming into the field, with almost unlimited manpower (increasing at something...
  12. Pearl Harbour WIs?

    Not likely. If the carriers are tied to the Battle Line they will be too far away when the Sun rises. The Japanese had a much more through recon screen in place, mostly subs, but also float planes (including a float plane that reconned Pearl right as dawn broke to make sure the prey hadn't...
  13. Pearl Harbour WIs?

    This is actually one of the most often discussed events hereabouts. The answers are rather complex as far as a prepared U.S. If the fleet heads out to sea, unsupported by massive air cover, and manages to go in the right direction, it gets blown to Mars with massive losses to crews. If it...
  14. Japanese Invasion of Alaska and Hawii

    As you well know the Japanese were hyper Mahan, they also had long since decided that, based on their strength, the strength of the U.S., and related operation realities, that the Decisive Battle should take place near Formosa, This location played into their strengths, allowed them air support...
  15. The CURRENT world without having had the British Empire

    Wait... WTF? No HIV & no AIDS? Because the British retain colonial control of part of Africa? This may be the single most idiotic statement ever posted on this Board (and God knows, there is a lot of competition for that title). Between this post, post # 4, and your general attitude...
  16. Japanese Invasion of Alaska and Hawii

    Risking his head. The Japanese Far Right had created that modern perversion of Bushido where such things were accepted.
  17. Japanese Invasion of Alaska and Hawii

    Well, lets take a look: In hindsight I would have canceled the Philippines Operation because: A. Thanks to MacArthur's incompetence most of the Far East Air Force was destroyed on December 8, preventing him from interfering with Yamashita's invasion of Malaya, which was the main reason...
  18. Japanese Invasion of Alaska and Hawii

    Actually they were almost ideally placed for B-17s (remembering that, in 1941, no one had realized that high altitude bombers were a lousy choice to attack shipping). From the Manila region it is almost exactly the same distance to the Chinese coast as it was from the British bases used by the...
  19. Japanese Invasion of Alaska and Hawii

    The Japanese couldn't ignore the PI. The U.S. bases there were perfectly placed to interdict anything the Japanese tried to ship from the DEI or Indochina. even if all that is operational out of the Islands is a submarine force, the entire reason for the Japanese going to war against the U.S. is...
  20. Japan on the defense

    The Japanese get utterly crushed. What is being ignored here is that the Japanese already HAD possessions that they needed to defend in the Mandates, possession that they had gained in WW I (okay, the Mandates were given by the League temporarily, but the Japanese were never going to...
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